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Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Minister joins mockery of Reform's Nadhim Zahawi for saying he 'doesn't feel safe in London' after walking past tired man

Government minister Sir Chris Bryant has torn into Reform UK’s Nadhim Zahawi over him saying he felt unsafe in London after walking past a very tired-looking man one morning who he felt could be violent.

The former Tory Chancellor, who defected to Reform in January, used the experience to argued that the capital is so crime ridden that it is not safe.

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