'Fare dodging costs Transport for London £130m a year'

THIS says it all about over-regulated Britain today. Law-abiding people are tied up with never-ending rules and yet law breakers are free to flout the justice system. TfL should have thanked Mr Jenrick and put transport police in the worst stations.

- Tim Newark

But all we hear from this soft-on-crime Government is that up to 43,000 criminals — including burglars, knife offenders and shoplifters will be let off prison and given community sentences instead, according to Labour plans to scrap jail sentences under 12 months. On top of that, 1,500 killers and rapists will be eligible for early release to free up prison spaces.

And yet a tweeter like Tory councillor’s wife Lucy Connolly is on course to serve her full 31-month sentence.

The unfairness of it all creates a sense of unease and lawlessness that only encourages more people to break the law.

It is time for Labour to take a lesson from the past. Like London and many of our cities and towns today, New York in the 1970s had become notorious for its sense of decay and urban blight. Graffiti everywhere, rampant crime on the streets and demotivated police.