Reform’s new London mayoral candidate has been accused of “talking down” the UK’s capital, after she said that people “pity” Londoners.
Laila Cunningham, a former senior crown prosecutor and a Reform Westminster city councillor, used a central London press conference to paint a picture of the capital as a crime-ridden metropolis, billing herself as “a new sheriff in town” who would, if elected, launch “an all-out war on crime”.
