"Rather than give this story more oxygen, we propose the following line that doesn't explicitly call them out but does implicitly say we don't think their products could do it."
"They made the whole thing up, volunteer cleaner Joe Reeve, 28, said in a video published on X, formerly known as Twitter. They didn't care about the truth. And they certainly didn't care about solving the graffiti. They just wanted to cover up their own incompetence."
"The commissioner was making reference to information that he had been made aware of verbally and of work being undertaken within TfL as part of our wider graffiti reduction strategy, which aims to prevent and tackle graffiti vandalism."
Andy Lord, commissioner of Transport for London, said he had evidence that people were creating graffiti and then removing it. A Freedom of Information request found TfL held no recorded information relating to that statement. Internal emails reportedly show press officers asking colleagues whether there was any evidence and proposing a line that avoided explicitly calling the cleaners out while implicitly questioning their products. Volunteer cleaner Joe Reeve said the claim was fabricated and accused TfL of covering up incompetence. Reform member Keith Prince sought clarification. Reeve and Dr Newport launched a petition calling for an apology and a joint clean-up.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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