Furious Tories condemn Sadiq Khan over delay removing migrant tents | Politics | News
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was forced to explain why closing the immigrant tent village in one of London’s richest and most luxurious neighborhoods. Executive officers came to 5 am yesterday morning to clean the slum town in London’s famous Park Lane. However, London For London (TFL) was ordered to remove the camp in May.
Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp, the mayor, “let him inspire while hiding in the town hall,” he said. The conservative politician visited the camp, where 30 people lived, with an open reporter at the beginning of this week. He said: “I saw it with my own eyes.
“Park Lane, an important center for tourists and visitors in Britain, turned into a unlawful shanty camp because Sadiq Khan was uncomfortable with lifting a finger.
“I personally shouted and threatened in the middle of the center of London. This is what happened when the worker seized our boundaries, eliminates his implementation and leaves the police weak.”
He also condemned Labour’s decision to scrape the 200 -year -old Vagrancy law, which made rude sleep a criminal offense. Tories said the police rarely arrested people for this crime, but the legislation allowed them to move rough sleeping.
“Park Lane is now a monument of Labour’s failure. Frankly, they are tired of the excuses of the Mayor of the London.”
Ekspres reporter visited the camp on Tuesday, and when he asked the residents why they were still there, a woman said she slept on the streets and expected a house after spending a month in the camp.
London For London, the camp residents of the camp to remove the goods and alternative accommodation to interact with services, he said.
A spokesman said: “Nobody should encounter coarsely sleeping in the streets of London.
“We had to do the enforcement action to have the site twice last year, but a few people returned with tents and other items. In May to ensure the safety and prosperity of everyone concerned, the Central London District Court was ordered.
“Social assistance efforts continue, but we have left no more option than making the camp in place, that is, to make more application action to have the site.
However, the mayor was accused of encouraging more immigrant camp with the plan to pedestrian Oxford Street, London’s famous shopping heart.
Susan Hall, a member of the Conservative London Assembly, said: “Oxford Street will make a nice site for a large number of tents. Mayor could not get a comprehension of this problem and seems determined to worse the problem.
“We can’t have it. It looks terrible for tourists, changes the character of the neighborhoods, and there is no reason for it.”
