Festus Akinbusoye: Safer Homes Will Make for Safer London Streets

James Ford: By attacking fellow Conservatives, Festus Akinbusoye is showing the wrong way to run for Mayor of London

James Ford is a columnist for City AM and was an adviser to former Mayor of London Boris Johnson on transport policy Festus Akinbusoye wants the Conservative nomination to run for Mayor of London. Now, this is unlikely to surprise anyone who has even a passing interest in London politics. He has been popping up...

Festus Akinbusoye: Safer homes will make for safer London streets

Sadiq Khan deserves credit for following the Scottish public health approach to serious youth violence with London’s own violence reduction unit (VRU). When I was Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner, I had oversight of that county’s VRU, putting money and political capital behind it, rather than reaching only for enforcement. From hospital-based interventions to tackling persistent school absenteeism it is the right thing to do. I say t…