Good morning.
The streets of London are riddled with “crime and desperation”. “Ulez enforcers dressed in black faces covered with masks” terrorise the city “at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master”. Campaign ads don’t get much more deranged than the one released by the Conservative party on Twitter/X to attack Sadiq Khan, in an attempt to bolster support for Susan Hall’s run at the capital’s mayoralty. An initial upload was taken down because it used footage of a panicked crowd in a New York City subway station to criticise Khan’s record on crime. (For a more nuanced analysis on crime figures in London, read this Guardian fact check.) The bizarre narration in an American accent is still present and correct.
