Conservative London Assembly Member Neil Garratt used the first Mayor’s Question Time session of the year to take aim at Sir Sadiq Khan for “gaslighting” Londoners by suggesting the city is safer than it ever has been. Earlier this week Mr Garratt published data showing that knife crime offences had risen from 9,721 in 2015-16 – the last year of Boris Johnson’s time in office – to 16,147 last year.
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Sir Sadiq responded by saying the population had risen by over a million since he took office in 2016, while reduced funding under the previous Conservative Government resulted in cuts to police numbers.