London's Conservative mayoral hopeful Susan Hall's claim of having been a victim of pickpocketing on the Tube slowly fell apart as LBC host Nick Ferrari politely walked her through the details to discover that the missing items were all returned by a member of the public. Hall seized the opportunity to accuse current Mayor Sadiq Khan, her Labour rival, of allowing crime to spiral out of control, following the incident where she subsequently discovered that 40 in cash along with her Oyster public transport card were missing from her pocket.
So, Susan, Ferrari said, you have your purse back minus, what? Your Oyster card and your credit cards and cash. What's gone? No, no, she replied. I don't keep credit cards in there. It's just literally the Oyster card and a business card or a couple of business cards I keep in that. So I'm very, very lucky, unlike many others. So the Oyster card is gone and your cash has gone? the host pressed, struggling to see the problem. Hall clarified: No, the Oyster card was still in there. I only keep the Oyster card and the cash was still in there. There was some cash in there and that was still there. Moving to a political pitch, Hall began to criticize the current state of security in London under Khan. Well, we've got to look at it in Sadiq Khan's London, Hall said. Thefts are up 31 percent, robberies are up 58 percent.
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