Reform London mayor candidate accused of talking down capital with ‘pity’ remark
by Alexandra Topping Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#72NDE)
Laila Cunningham tells press conference that people pity Londoners for having to live in a city that is no longer safe'
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".
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