article_snippet.sent: More than 1,000 crimes have been created by the Coalition in a frenzy of law-making – including a ban on washing clothes in Trafalgar Square.
article_snippet.sent: But research shows the Government has invented 22 ways of criminalising the public every month.
article_snippet.sent: – ministers created 1,073 offences.
article_snippet.sent: During the 13 years Labour was in power, 4,300 offences were placed on the statute book – approximately one every day.
article_snippet.sent: ’ More than 1,000 crimes have been created by the Coalition in a frenzy of law-making – including a ban on washing clothes in Trafalgar Square (above)
article_snippet.sent: ‘Creating so many trivial crimes brings the law into disrepute.
article_snippet.sent: The Ministry of Justice said 696 crimes had been removed from the statute books over the four-year period – meaning the net number of new laws was 377.
article_snippet.sent: Here are some of the more unusual crimes created since May 2010: .
article_snippet.sent: Old crimes still enforceable: .