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The hospital in Sadiq Khan’s London which U.S. President Donald Trump described as a “war zone” following a wave of deadly knife attacks has issued a statement responding to the controversy.

President Trump highlighted reports of London looking like a “war zone” amidst surging knife crime, as he defended U.S. gun laws at the National Rifle Association (NRA) conference.

There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.

A woman has suffered serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed by a man police believe may have been lingering near her block of flats for days.

An 18-year-old university student was stabbed to death overnight Monday in Forest Gate, east London, the latest fatality in an apparent crime wave sweeping London which has seen over 35 people murdered with knives in 2018.

Leading Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan, saying he must “take responsibility” for the violent crime wave sweeping the city, driving its murder rate above that of New York City.

A young father and a woman were stabbed in London within 30 minutes last night, as the number murdered in the capital this year hits 59.

Speaking out on the controversy surrounding floral tributes to a slain burglar killed during a home invasion in London, Breitbart Editor Raheem Kassam said it was possible the children of the dead criminal may be better off without him, and

A man was stabbed on a busy rush hour train on Wednesday morning at Stratford International Station in Sadiq Khan’s London.

LONDON (AP) — London police have shot and killed a man after he reportedly claimed he had a weapon.

“Political correctness has directly led to the murder rate going up in London,” former UKIP leader and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nigel Farage has argued.

Another six young people have been stabbed overnight in Sadiq Khan’s London, which recently surpassed New York City for murders for the first time since 1800.

Sadiq Khan has admitted failing to meet any families bereaved by London’s recent murder spree, as well as refusing to apologise for not making any public appearances as Mayor until Thursday, in a car cash interview.

Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.

The London Mayor has responded to the city’s growing crime wave and calls for his resignation by once again blaming those on the political right, as well as by promoting a hashtag on Twitter. Sadiq Khan took up the capital’s

A shopkeeper who witnessed a mass brawl which ended with one teenager being stabbed multiple times and another having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in multicultural Birmingham said he was “used to” such scenes.

A 50-year-old Christian has become the 19th homicide victim in Sadiq Khan’s London this month.

The son of a Nigerian politician has been shot dead outside his home in London over the weekend, becoming the tenth murdered victim of the ‘gun free’ city’s violent crime wave in just 12 days.

The head of a leading knife crime charity has predicted that violence in Sadiq Khan’s London will get worse before it gets better, as a violent crime wave in the capital claimed its eighth life in the span of seven days.

An information campaign working to persuade Londoners not to arm themselves with knives contained faked supportive tweets from celebrities, leading to the material being withdrawn and deleted.

Rampant knife crime threatens the “very existence” of Notting Hill Carnival, a judge has said while sentencing two men for attacks at Europe’s biggest multicultural party.

Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.

A French student who carried a knife to a nightclub was freed by judges after claiming he feared xenophobic attacks in a post-Brexit Britain.

The UK’s surge in recorded violent and sexual crime, including knife attacks, has accelerated at a faster rate than previously thought over the past year, new police statistics reveal.

The London Mayor has said he “can not solve knife crime by myself” when pressed on the issue in the London Assembly, blaming Conservative government cuts and implying right wing opponents are lying.

Sadiq Khan is “not up to the job” of running London as mayor, and has “undoubtedly” let knife crime worsen, says plumbing entrepreneur Charlie Mullins OBE, who now wants to run for the job himself.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said the Metropolitan Police will “significantly increase” the use of stop and search powers in an attempt to crackdown on the city’s surging knife crime problem.

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s response to the knife crime epidemic overtaking his city has been to issue metal-detecting ‘knife wands’ to schools — but City Hall is not tracking how many times they are being used, or how many knives are being confiscated, if any.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to “spend less time grandstanding” about U.S. President Donald Trump and “more time tackling epidemic levels of knife crime in London”.

From the Guardian: Four young men have been stabbed to death in unrelated attacks in the space of 15 hours in London, Scotland Yard said. The killings – three on New Year’s Eve and a fourth in the early hours

A woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after two policemen were stabbed in what was described as a “serious incident” in Essex.

Two men are on trial in London for a horrific killing which left the victim’s guts “spilling out of his belly”.

Some 313 people were arrested during this year’s Notting Hill Carnival with a further 656 made proactively in the weeks beforehand, and now the boss of the London Police Federation has called time on the annual party which is known

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said she will back police using ‘stop and search’ tactics after the massive surge in knife and acid attacks seen after the Tories rolled back the practice in 2014.

The knife crime epidemic in London, where 11 teenagers have been stabbed to death since the beginning of the year, should be treated as a ‘mental health’ issue, Labour’s Chuka Umunna has said.

Children as young as six are carrying knives as weapons on some housing estates in London, the city’s Police Commissioner has heard. At a meeting attended by relatives of knife crime and youth workers in Putney, south west London, Cressida