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OPINION - Sadiq Khan should cut the woke Tube posters and spend the cash on more police

Source: Noah Vickers/Local Democracy Reporting Service

There are, when it comes down to it, only two things that the Mayor of London has responsibility for: policing and transport. Alas, the present incumbent, Sadiq Khan, can’t get a grip on either.

showed an increase of 56 per cent in on the (to 10,836 offences), with an astonishing increase of 83 per cent in thefts (to 5,378 offences). Crime has also risen on buses, though less dramatically. Granted, passenger numbers

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