Sadiq Khan and his cronies in the London Assembly put the brakes on a Conservative proposal to inject £200 million into the Met police yesterday. Some of the funding would have gone into tackling knife crime in schools and in the streets. A reminder: knife crime in London has increased by 54 per cent under Khan.

Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall slammed Khan’s move:

“Sadiq Khan and his allies have shown their true colours today, refusing to back the police after underfunding them for eight years. Sadiq Khan has arrogantly ignored Londoners, taking money from the police to splash on pre-election gimmicks. One thousand people have been killed since he was elected, but he is more interested in holidays, beach parties and selling his book than doing anything about it.”

It’s surprising to hear Khan couldn’t bring himself to support the worthy cause, considering he’s not stranger to spending a load of taxpayers’ cash. Guido recalls our London Mayor had no qualms spaffing £123 million on beach parties and woke projects, £30 million to tube strikers, £28.7 million on virtue signalling and self-promotion, all while raking in £26 million a month from pinching pennies off those who can’t afford ULEZ-compliant cars. Guido’s sure all these projects are much more important to Londoners than keeping crime off the streets…