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Fortnightly news from London's City Hall and discussion of the issues affecting London. Hosted by Conservative London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best.
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1 The end of the black cab? Plus the Mayor's "ambitious" net zero plans, phone and bike theft, and the axing of the cyber crime helpline. 16:00
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Season 3, Episode 4 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best discuss: Waste of the Week: TfL union facility time Mayor axes cyber crime helpline. A trivial saving, an important service lost. Mobile phone and bike theft missing from Mayor's Draft Police and Crime Plan. Net Zero. The Mayor's completely unrealistic "ambitious" Net Zero by 2030 plan. The W14 bus that doesn't quite go to Whipps Cross hospital. Black Cabs: twenty years until the London black cab is no more. Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22 Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Budget week: police numbers, potholes, grooming gang enquiry, phone theft and bike theft, night life, and why Mayor Khan needs a new strategy 35:32
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Season 3, Episode 4 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best discuss: Waste of the Week (0:57): pub quiz question, how many Deputy Mayors does London have? Conservative Budget Amendment (3:50): Police funding, police officers v staff, phone and bike theft, night life prosperity fund, pot hole fund, London investigation into child grooming, Tech issues (18:02): For the biggest meeting of the year, none of the mics in City Hall's Chamber were working, and the live stream wasn't working. City Hall's lengthy saga of IT and tech problems. People's Question Time (21:30): in Haringey. Thanks to the Mayor making the location secret, the public are staying away. Who would have guessed? Rachel Reeves doesn't mention London (28:45): recalling last year's national Labour budget following the election, and the strains of the Labour Mayor Khan finding his new post-election place in the new Labour pecking order. Nationalised rail? Rent control? What will the Mayor's strategy be now he can no longer blame everything on the government? Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22 Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 LIVE - Tackling London's Theft Epidemic, our live launch event with Chris Philp MP and Dr Lawrence Newport 52:02
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Welcome to Inside City Hall series 3 episode 3 This special episode is all about Tackling London's Theft Epidemic, especially mobile phones and bikes. The rest of this episode consists of the full as-live recording of our launch event in City Hall from last Tuesday, for those who weren't able to attend in person. You'll hear me introduce the event, launching my new report. Then Dr Lawrence Newport (10:58) independent researcher and founder of the Crush Crime campaign. Then you'll hear from Chris Philp MP (21:15) the Shadow Home Secretary. Finally we go to a Q&A with the audience (31:49) and some fascinating discussion and answers. I hope you enjoy it and I hope to see you at our next City Hall event. Don't forget to like Inside City Hall, follow or subscribe on your podcast app, and leave us a review as it helps other people to find the podcast. Read the report: TACKLING LONDON'S THEFT EPIDEMIC: CITY HALL CONSERVATIVES LEADER JOINED BY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY AND CRUSH CRIME FOUNDER Crush Crime: Petition - Crush Crime Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22 Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Police budget pressure, Labour Attack on School STEM, Tackling London's Theft Epidemic, and GLAP is Waste Of The Week 36:17
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Series 3 Episode 2 We are so back! On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and co-host Emma Best discuss: Waste Of The Week. Through GLAP, the GLA owns 6.3 square km of London which was supposed to be redeveloped. It is many, many years behind schedule having languished under Mayor Khan, leaving the GLA parent at least £250m out of pocket. Police Budget Pressure (2:40). Thanks to the Mayor's spending choices, the Met is going to have to lose many officers. But how many? 2600? 1300? Some other number? Labour Attack On School STEM (6:29). Emma's motion to the Assembly challenging Labour's attack on maths, physics, computer science, and adult learning. Tackling London's Theft Epidemic (12:10). Neil's report launched on Tuesday with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Dr Lawrence Newport founder of the Crush Crime campaign. We show how the fact that crime is concentrated among certain highly prolific offenders and in certain places, you can target them and get huge results. Read the report: TACKLING LONDON'S THEFT EPIDEMIC: CITY HALL CONSERVATIVES LEADER JOINED BY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY AND CRUSH CRIME FOUNDER Crush Crime: Petition - Crush Crime Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22 Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Tram Trouble, Pay per Mile scrapped, and the modified d'Hondt electoral system. 21:02
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Series 3 Episode 1 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and new co-host Emma Best discuss: Election Results. Including a sales pitch for the modified d'Hondt electoral system used for electing Assembly Members. Tram Trouble. Rolling stock problems on the Croydon Tram, echoing Central Line problems. The repeated fares freezes sound good, but is it short-term gain, long-term pain as they drain capital investment from London's infrastructure. Pay Per Mile. The media have been reporting that Conservative pressure forced Mayor Khan to abandon plans for Pay Per Mile. That's curious because he never really admitted to having such plans! Regardless of your view, it would fundamentally change the way people think about the roads across London and such a change needs an open debate not to be snuck through. Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22 @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 ULEZ scrappage musical chairs, Solar Together - same scheme new problems. 24:27
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Series 2 Episode 13 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: ULEZ - a "major" announcement. The Mayor makes a "major" announcement about ULEZ Scrappage, but it looks more like a rounding error that fails to solve the cost of living impact of the Mayor's charge and still leaves companies playing ULEZ Musical Chairs with too few compliant vans available to meet the demand. Solar Together. The contractor that caused so many problems with their Mayoral-approved solar panel programme has gone into liquidation, making a bad situation worse. A follow up to the story in Series 2 Episode 7, in January. What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? Nick. After the movie, now the book: Master and Commander and the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin series. Neil. Human Factor by Graham Greene, my first Greene but certainly not my last! Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try Neil's City Hall Diary on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Shawcross Prevent Review, ULEZ "computer says no", Wennington fire, and the Mayor's bad junk food science. 48:13
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Series 2 Episode 12 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: Shawcross review. The Police and Crime Committee looked at the major review of the Prevent anti-terrorism programme. ULEZ. Unusually, not the charge itself but TfL's "computer says no" approach to people trying to pay it. Wennington fire . The London Fire Brigade's review of last year's major blaze which highlights that the LFB faces some distinctly rural firefighting problems, as well as more familiar urban and high rise challenges. Mayor's Junk Food ad ban. Research widely quoted by the Mayor and his allies has been cited by academics as case study for bad science, the kind of activist "research" that undermines public confidence in science. What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? In a naval-themed discussion, Neil's been watching the classic Master and Commander starring Russel Crowe, while Nick watched BBC documentary The Warship: Tour of Duty following Britain's biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage through disputed waters around China. Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try Neil's City Hall Diary on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Ealing People's Question Time, the budget, road pricing, and tackling online fraud. 1:01:55
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Series 2 Episode 11 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: People's Question Time. The people want to talk about ULEZ, but the Mayor wants to smear critics as "holding hands with the far right". City Hall Budget. And the Conservative alternative to tackle dirty air and the cost of living. Road Pricing. The Mayor's post-ULEZ pay-per-mile plan to charge every vehicle in London every time it moves, which is starting to look increasingly like a plan to tax outer London to fund TfL services in central and inner London. Operation Elaborate. A major police operation to tackle organised online and phone fraud by shutting down iSpoof. Met Recruitment. Mayoral rhetoric meets reality: the Mayor has been claiming the government must fund 6000 extra police officer this year not the 4077 offered. But they've only managed to recruit about 3000. What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? Clarkson's Farm, on Amazon Video Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try Neil's City Hall Diary on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube…
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1 Mayor's Cost of Living PR stunt brought down by reality, blue light collaboration, and missing children in London 39:27
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Series 2 Episode 10 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: The Mayor's Cost of Living Summit with Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert does not go as planned when the public bring up ULEZ and Martin thinks they have a point. Then undermines the Mayor's rent control obsession. Blue light shared working, eg police making use of space in fire stations. Missing children. Staggeringly, Police in London record 25,447 cases of missing children per year relating to 8,414 individuals. What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? Diary of a CEO Episode 216 interview with the Mayor (YouTube) Ealing Comedies : Passport to Pimlico, The Titfield Thunderbolt, and Whisky Galore! Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Need more City Hall news? Try Neil's City Hall Diary on substack…
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1 ULEZ Scrappage announced, cleaning up the Met, future of Conservatives in London, and is the Night Czar worth a 40% pay rise? 55:45
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Series 2 Episode 9 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: - The new ULEZ Scrappage scheme , which launched on Monday, - How Sir Mark Rowley is cleaning up the Met, while the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime may not be helping, - Nick's article on the future of Conservatives in millennial London, - The Night Czar gets 40% pay rise , but what is there to show for her existence? What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? - City Journal's 10 Blocks podcast - Short Circuit (1986) classic 80s sci fi - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - Exploring ChatGPT and Novel AI Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Links we mention in this episode: Neil's City Hall Diary: Neil Garratt's City Hall Diary | Substack TfL scrappage scheme: Scrappage scheme - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk) There's a ~1 minute excerpt of Neil's Q&A with MOPAC in the podcast, here's the video of the full exchange: https://youtu.be/skC7ZxUoubo Nick's OnLondon article: Nick Rogers: Millennial voters are key to restoring Conservative fortunes in London - OnLondon This is the 10 Blocks podcast episode about the way crime is concentrated: Stubborn Facts About Crime: 10 Blocks podcast | City Journal (city-journal.org) ChatGPT, the new AI system everyone's talking about: New chat (openai.com) Novel AI, an AI bot powered by ChatGPT that apparently will write a novel for you, or help you play a game of quasi-Risk! NovelAI - The AI Storyteller…
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1 Did the Mayor's team fiddle the ULEZ consultation? And did they try to cover it up? Special guest Peter Fortune discusses this week's explosive revelations. 51:16
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Series 2, Episode 8. How the Mayor's ULEZ lines crumbled Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers are joined by fellow AM Peter Fortune in the aftermath of an explosive January Mayoral Question Time at which we confronted Mayor Khan with the paper trail showing the Mayor had made false and dishonest statements about his ULEZ consultation. It's been covered by the BBC, ITV, the Evening Standard but here we go behind the scenes to discuss what we actually knew, what the Mayor claimed, and how the Mayor's statements simply don't hold up. We also discuss The West Wing, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the double slit experiment, and how WWI began because that's just how we roll. Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @PeterTFortune @CityHallPodcast Email us: Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk Peter.Fortune@London.gov.uk Links we mention in the show: Peter, Nick, and Neil quiz the Mayor in October 2022. Notice that the Mayor repeatedly denies knowing anything about the consultation results. We now know he received a detailed briefing 2 weeks before this and his Deputy Mayors and Chief of Staff were being briefed weekly throughout...so bear that in mind when you listen to his answers. YouTube: Mayor grilled on ULEZ after leaked consultation results revealed 66% oppose London-wide expansion June 2022, Peter quizzes TfL Finance Director about road user charging, finds out that it's already being worked on. YouTube: London Mayor already has teams working on road user charging The Integrated Impact Assesment (IIA) for expanding ULEZ to outer London, by Jacobs engineers. Commissioned by TfL as part of the consultation, this is the most comprehensive information we have on the likely impact of expanding ULEZ, the Mayor ignores it because it shows the change in air quality will be tiny. Jacobs IIA (PDF) We discuss our alternative air quality plan, which you can read here Every Breath You Take (PDF)…
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1 Solar panels generating complaints, zero Croydon youth murders, ULEZ consultation results, and cargo bikes. 49:06
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Series 2, Episode 7. Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers review the latest news from London and City Hall, in this episode: - Mayor Sadiq Khan's Solar Together plan for home solar panels. Aiming to generate electricity, it's also generated huge numbers of complaints, even the Mayor publicly admitted it had gone wrong. Neil's Audit Panel has investigated and found serious problems with the process. - A year of zero youth murders in Croydon. A great news story and a big turnaround from 2021, what's beind it? - The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) consultation results are in, what did Londoners really think? And did the Mayor pay attention? - Cargo bikes. A modern version of the classic "butcher's bike" with electric assist that can carry a surprisingly large load, increasingly common in central London as businesses find they make commercial sense. What is the potential and what are the obstacles to growth? PS: in the episode Neil says it'll take between 27 and 28 minutes to cycle from City Hall to London Bridge. Actual elapsed time: 27 mins 36 seconds from bike shed to ticket barrier. Bosh! @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast…
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1 Transport Pubcast Special with Dr Tom Cohen from University of Westminster 50:21
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Series 2, Episode 6. Neil and Nick are joined in the Windsor Castle pub by special guest Dr Tom Cohen , a Senior Lecturer in transport at the University of Westminster. We discuss: - Childhood transport memories, - Active travel, cycling, e-bikes and e-scooters, - "shared mobility" such as dockless bikes, and why it's not really sharing if you charge rent, - How to run consultations with the public that don't look like a "fix" (one for the Mayor to tune in...) - The 1 hour transport "budget" and whether transport should try to go faster. - The 15 minute city, how it goes wrong (clue: people will make their own choices) - We also touch on " Order Without Design " by Alain Bertaud, a superb book about the way cities are better shaped by markets than by central planning. I highly recommend it, we hope to do a fuller review in a future episode, but here's a little taster. Finally, an apology for the sound quality in parts of this episode, I'm afraid that's entirely my fault - Neil @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast…
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1 Meeting the new Met Commissioner, Just Stop Oil, challenging the Mayor on ULEZ 46:24
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This week on Inside City Hall: - Neil and Nick give their first impressions of Sir Mark Rowley after his first appearance at the Police and Crime Committee, - What to do about Just Stop Oil? What did Sir Mark say when we asked him? - Neil laments attacks on art, will galleries just put everything behind glass like the Mona Lisa? - Sustained questioning of the Mayor about ULEZ, where he admitted it might be delayed because of the cost of living pressure, - and the Mayor's extraordinary claim that he neither asked for nor received any information about the ULEZ consultation between May and October, nor asked any questions about it at TfL Board meetings. Can that really be true, or will he be "clarifying" his answer? @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast…
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1 From Conference in Birmingham, the Mayor's worst week, little boats, LGBT+ hate crime, and levelling up London 41:45
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From Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Neil Garratt AM and Nick Rogers AM look at the big City Hall and London news from the last week. - The Mayor legally summonsed to give evidence to the Assembly about the Tom Winsor report. - ULEZ consultation results were leaked, showing huge public opposition even while Mayor's attempts to hige negative responses - Could the medieval experience of crossing the Thames in London on little boats be making a comeback, as seen in Shardlake and Wolf Hall? - Nick's Conference fringe looking at rising LGBT+ hate crime in London - Levelling up London and boosting growth. Links from the episode: Peter Fortune’s YouTube Exchange with the Mayor on “Who owns a car in London?” The Mayor dodges Peter Fortune AM's question regarding financial impact of a further ULEZ expansion. - YouTube Federation of Small Business ULEZ consultation response FSB London calls for ‘ULEZ’ proposal rethink | FSB, The Federation of Small Businesses @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast…
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