Liam Gallagher took a swipe at London’s mayor Sadiq Khan as he was asked about knife crime in the city during a BBC Breakfast interview.
Gallagher, who has sons Gene, 17, and Lennon, 19, as well as daughters Molly, 11, and Gemma, 6, insisted: “Every time you wake up in the morning, there’s some 16-year-old kid been knifed to death. I’ve got kids that age, out and about and that, doing their thing, living, being young. That freaks me right out – it does worry me. I’ve got teenagers.”
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He added of Khan, according to the Guardian: “I’d have a word with that mayor – he seems to not be doing a good job, all them kids getting knifed and all that. The only thing that ever comes out of his mouth is, ‘London is open.’ What, open for knife crime and dying and stuff?”
Gallagher, who said on Twitter he should become the U.K. prime minister after Theresa May’s exit, was also asked about politicians admitting to taking drugs.
He said, “I don’t hang out with politicians and I don’t hang out with celebrities that hang out with politicians or these fake rock’n’roll stars that hang out with politicians.”
“I just hang out with me and my missus and my kids and my mates. But if I did see a politician taking drugs, man, he’d get a crack round the head.
“They shouldn’t be… they’re meant to be running the country, aren’t they?”