The Nationalist Party said today that the government had strengthened police efforts to fight corruption and crime and it believed that all those who broke the law should face legal action.

In a reply to a PL statement yesterday, calling for political responsibility to be borne for the alleged road works corruption scandal, the PN said its position was in contrast to that of the PL.

Labour, it said, had accepted within its ranks a number of people who had been taken to court and accused of corruption or other crime.

While the PN had taken disciplinary action against people who were taken to court, these same people had found space within the PL and its media, the PN said.

The people, therefore, had before them a Nationalist Party which fought corruption and crime, and a Labour Party which said a lot but actually did the opposite, the PN said.