Spurious video on London mayor’s record on crime allegedly had no input from Tory candidate Susan Hall’s team

The controversial Conservative attack video that portrayed London as a crime-racked hellhole was put together by the central party rather than its mayoral candidate, and has dismayed some around Susan Hall, the Guardian has learned.

The brief but dramatic film, in which an American-accented voiceover declared the city the “crime capital of the world” and, using dubious claims, sought to blame Sadiq Khan.

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