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The claim

London has seen an increase in violent crime, and knife crime in particular, along with a larger number of deaths from drug abuse, since Labour mayor Sadiq Khan was elected.

Original publisher’s rating

Evaluation: Misleading. The video makes several misleading claims about crime in London, and ignores the context of rising crime rates across England and Wales.

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Sources and attribution

    Original review: PA Media. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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