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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Joe Talora

City Hall staff offered counselling over abuse directed at London mayor Sadiq Khan

City Hall staff have had to be offered counselling following a torrent of abusive letters and emails directed at Sadiq Khan and the Greater London Authority, it has been revealed.

Speaking at a meeting of the London Assembly’s GLA oversight committee on Tuesday, Ali Picton, the Mayor of London’s director of operations, revealed that staff have had to refer correspondence to the police over “offensive, inappropriate, threatening” content and “messages of hate”.

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