By Rayhan Haque To end the capital’s knife crime epidemic, we need to create a new universal gold-standard youth service for London, writes Rayhan Haque A knife crime epidemic is raging across the capital. From young people to financiers with nice watches in Mayfair, everyone is now at risk. The latest Office for National Statistics figures show there were a staggering 14,000 knife crimes in London in the year to the end of September 2023, compared to the previous 12 months. That is a huge 22 per cent increase. The total includes 8,343 robberies with a knife. The long-term trend has only been …