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Sadiq Khan tells rival Susan Hall 'stop watching The Wire' after she claims 'gangs run around with machetes'

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Published date23 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
Mr Khan called Ms Hall the “most dangerous candidate I have fought against” as they appeared alongside the Lib Dems and Green Party candidates Rob Blackie and Zoe Garbett to answer questions from LBC callers on a number of issues on Tuesday evening April 23

Mr Khan is seeking a historic third term in office, having first been elected in 2016. When asked about the Metropolitan Police, all four candidates said they had confidence in Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley amid recent calls for him to resign. Mr Khan said he thought the Met was ahead of other police services across the country and praised Sir Mark for “making remarkable progress”.

Ms Hall disagreed and said London was in “a very serious situation”, and that she had been told by those working in the night-time economy about “gangs running around with machetes”. The mayor said: “I think the Tory candidate should stop watching The Wire.”

Asked about the ultra low emission zone ULEZ, Ms Hall said the mayor’s own impact assessment had “showed him it would make virtually no difference at all”. A strong advocate of scrapping the scheme, she refused to spell out where the £200 million in revenue that ULEZ brings would instead come from, saying it was “a long, complicated mix”.

Mr Khan said: “I’m not going to apologise at all for cleaning up the air in our city.” Pressed on his comments in 2021 that Ulez did not need to be expanded, Mr Khan said the World Health Organisation had changed their guidelines on air toxicity levels.

Ms Hall said that the mayor would bring in pay-per-mile charging for vehicles in London and described his policy record as “absolutely abysmal”. The mayor described Ms Hall as the “most dangerous candidate I have fought against” after she said she had “learnt” from a series of unsavoury social media posts she made about her political rival.

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