Answers on the knife crime epidemic will be found on the streets, not in Downing Street, and Boris Johnson ’s failure to listen to the people in the know means he is part of the problem.
We won’t defeat the knife scourge until he grasps all the reasons – including economic and social – why blades are carried and used.
Premier League footballer Andre Gray, who accuses privileged Johnson of being out of touch, speaks a lot of sense.
The knife scar on Gray’s face shows he speaks from experience.
Johnson, the latest Tory Old Etonian to think it was his birthright to rule over us, is a deadly liability. He views working people, council estates, shopping centres and public services as nothing more than photo opportunities.
We challenge him to sit down and learn from people who know what they are talking about.
Then he must pump money into poor communities to create hope and security.
