To shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick. The onetime Tory leadership contender has taken to Twitter to make a dig at Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan over TfL’s fee-dodgers. ‘Sadiq Khan is driving a proud city into the ground,’ Jenrick wrote furiously. ‘Lawbreaking is out of control. He’s not acting. So I did.’
What follows is a minute-long clip of the ex-Conservative Home Office minister approaching commuters who have attempted to use London’s public transport without paying. Jenrick has no qualms about going about travellers who have barged through the gates, asking one man: ‘Excuse me. Do you think it’s all right not to pay? Why do you go back through the barrier and pay? Do you want to go back and pay like everybody else?’ He didn’t let up – even when one infuriated commuter appeared to hint he was carrying a knife. Crikey!
Speaking to the camera, the Tory MP insists:
It’s the same with bike theft, phone theft, tool theft, shoplifting, drugs in town centres, weird Turkish barber shops.
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