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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Noah Vickers

Most Londoners doubt mayor's 'seriousness' in tackling phone theft, poll reveals

The mayor’s team said he was ‘committed to revitalising neighbourhood policing’ - (PA)

Almost two thirds of Londoners do not believe that mayor Sir Sadiq Khan takes the issue of phone theft “very seriously” or “seriously at all”, according to polling commissioned by City Hall Conservatives.

In a new report, the London Assembly’s Tory group argues that the Labour mayor has allowed overall theft in the capital to grow to “epidemic proportions” and says the mayor is “utterly uninterested” in tackling the problem.

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