This is the moment Robert Jenrick confronted fare dodgers on the London Underground, asking if one of them was carrying a knife.
The shadow justice secretary shared footage of himself approaching three men at Stratford station in an attempt to show the extent of lawbreaking in the capital.
He can be heard asking one of them if they have a knife on them – as he questions why they think it is alright not to pay.
Mr Jenrick, who previously ran for leader of Conservative party, said: ‘Do you want to go back and pay like everybody else?’ He then said: ‘But everyone else has to pay.’
One of the alleged fare dodgers who was, wearing a black coat and baseball cap, told him to ‘f*** off’.
The shadow cabinet member then replies: ‘You can say f*** off as much as you want.’
Towards the end of the clip, Mr Jenrick can be heard asking one of the men: ‘You what, you’re carrying a knife, did you say?’
Mr Jenrick, whose shadow justice secretary role does not cover crime, claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan is ‘driving a proud city into the ground’.
This is the moment Robert Jenrick confronted fare dodgers on the London Underground , asking if one of them was carrying a knife
Mr Jenrick can be heard asking one of them if they have a knife on them – as he questions why they think it is alright not to pay
The shadow justice secretary shared footage of him approaching three men at Stratford station in an attempt to show the extent of lawbreaking in the capital
He captioned the video on X: ‘Sadiq Khan is driving a proud city into the ground. Lawbreaking is out of control. He’s not acting. So, I did.’
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch welcomed Mr Jenrick’s actions.
She said: ‘Rob is right. Sadiq Khan’s been asleep at the wheel for 10 years and London is paying the price. Families don’t feel safe. Investors are leaving.
‘It’s time to take back control of our city.’
It comes as shocking footage showed the moment a fare dodger was told he owed more than £3,500 in unpaid ticket costs on Transport for London.
The man had been using the bank card for over a year – despite having no money on it – when he was caught by TfL investigators at Surrey Quays station in London’s docklands.
While the card had been accepted by the ticket reader each time, it had later resulted in a payment failure.
This meant he was able to force the exit gates to open at a station without having to pay the TfL travel charge, racking up thousands of unpaid fees.
The unsuspecting man was snared on his way to work, with investigators able to trace his usual journey and identify him on CCTV.
This is the moment Robert Jenrick asked the alleged fare dodger if he was carrying a knife
Mr Jenrick, whose justice secretary role does not cover crime, claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan is ‘driving a proud city into the ground’
After being taken in for an interview, the man claims he ‘found’ the card, before changing his mind and saying it was given to him by a friend.
But this does little to convince the officers, as they reveal he owes TfL an eye-watering £3,573 from more than 500 journeys taken in over a year.
The elaborate sting was captured in the latest episode of Channel 5 documentary ‘Fare Dodgers: At War with the Law’.
TfL investigator Lisa and her colleague spotted the man just as he was exiting the barriers at Surrey Quays train station.
She asks the man to show her the card he used to tap out before asking where he got it. The man replies: ‘No it’s not mine, I found it.’
‘Oh that’s a whole different ball game now,’ Lisa adds.
She then checks the card on her own scanner, which confirms her suspicions that the card is faulty.
‘You see there it’s failed? So me and you need to have a conversation. So I am going to ask you in for an interview.’
A TfL investigator speaks to a man who owed more than £3,500 in unpaid ticket costs after avoiding charges for over a year
The fare dodger then asks: ‘Is it going to take a long time? I’m working,’ to which Lisa replies: ‘It’s going to take as long as it takes.’
As she begins interviewing the man, Lisa tells him an investigation into the card shows that he had been using it illegally.
‘At this point because of this card I do believe you have committed an offence, so at this point I am going to caution.’
