Capital Getting More Dangerous, Say Londoners
16th June 2026
Londoners have said they feel increasingly unsafe in the city, in a blow to Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.
In a London School of Economics survey, 2,022 adults were asked whether living in the capital had become more or less safe generally. Some 54 per cent of respondents, made up of 61 per cent of women and 46 per cent of men, said they felt less safe than previously.
Only 22 per cent of men and 13 per cent of women said they felt London was safer.
We used to laugh at London for having someone named “Sadiq Khan” as Lord Mayer—and then Mamdani became mayor of New York….