Diane Abbott and three Labour colleagues - Keith Vaz, Gwyn Prosser and Karen Buck - take to the well-lit streets of Stoke Newington to prove that it’s safe to walk the streets of Hackney. Vaz sniffs an onion and inspects a butternut squash for the cameras, but fails to buy anything.

Meanwhile, in an East London hospital, a teenager lies in a critical condition, stabbed the night before on Rectory Road, near Hackney Downs.

Safe, Diane, safe.

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