Crime in London has increased at a lower rate than other areas of the country
A video was uploaded to the Conservative Party’s official X (formerly Twitter) account which was critical of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The video was captioned FACT: London under Labour has become a crime capital of the world.
The original video was removed from the account after some of the footage was found to be of people on the New York Metro, rather than from London.
The replacement has an ominous US-accented narrator describing London as having seen an increase in violent crime, and knife crime in particular, along with a larger number
