Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for London mayor, has promised to invest £3 million in a new initiative to crack down on gang crime and protect young people from exploitation. The funding package would be used to pay for street-based youth workers and a pilot project to empower police to inspect second-hand mobile phone shops without a warrant. Khan announced the plans just one day after Conservative candidate Susan Hall published her manifesto, which criticized Khan for failures in policing and for having lost ‘control of our streets.’