• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, the Prime Minister and the Government may have survived a parliamentary confidence vote, but can Londoners have confidence in our Government’s ability to deliver a good outcome for our city over Brexit?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, I want to raise with you the issue of EU Londoners. I know you have concerns about the process that the Government is aiming to set up. I have recently met with the Chairman of the East European Forum, who is extremely concerned that under the pilot scheme the Government has tested, EU nationals who have made London their home will have to provide documentary evidence of every month of their previous five years living here to get settled status. Many East Europeans, particularly Romanians and Poles, do not have tenancy documents and may not have formal contracts...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, I did not get a chance to finish my question of you earlier, but I am glad I could hear your answers to the Labour Assembly Members because you did mention that after two and a half years people understand the reality of the EU. The EU is falling apart. Italian and German banks are nearing the point of collapse. In France there is civil unrest and protest at some of the measures that the EU has brought in with carbon taxes and so on. People all across Europe are very unhappy with the EU. I know that...

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, in your opening report you remarked about the Government’s damaging approach to Brexit. Do you think that the Government’s pro-business post-Brexit immigration policies will be detrimental to London’s economy and how would you overcome the impact on key sectors such as NHS London and the construction and hospitality industries?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, Kent County Council’s Brexit preparedness plans forecast that in a no-deal scenario Kent will have to hold up to 10,000 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on a routine basis. What contingency plans does TfL have for the impact of this scenario on London’s roads and how might it impact the flow of essential goods like food and medicine into the city?

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Thank you, Chairman. Getting back to reality rather than UKIP unicorns, would you agree that the meaning of the meaningful vote this week in Parliament was that the Prime Minister has suffered the biggest ever defeat of a Government in history with a majority of 230 against her deal, which scale of loss in normal times would have led inevitably to her resignation - not, as Churchill might say, KBO [“Keep buggering on”] - and regardless sticking to red lines that have been rejected by the Commons? Is it not about time the Prime Minister looked to the interests of...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

I am glad that is not coming off my time, Chairman. Thank you very much. Mr Mayor, the language with which you have just answered those questions is very important about the style and manner of this debate. One of the poor things about this debate is the use of language and some of that use of language on social media. I do not know, maybe I am old fashioned, but I listen even harder to my political opponents and sometimes I even respect them for their views, albeit I may profoundly disagree with them. However, when a Member describes...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, what do you really think of the views of some of the politicians around this table? Apart from the three who at the end there [Sian Berry AM, Caroline Russell AM and Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM] who did not vote to leave, I look around and I see Shaun Bailey [AM], who voted to leave the EU in the referendum. When they say Brexit is a fantastic opportunity, it is a fantastic opportunity that I do not quite see. What do you really think about it?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 17 January 2019

Mr Mayor, you are being far too gloomy about Brexit because Brexit is going to be a fantastic thing for this country, as you know. It is quite strange that you used the phrase there “crashing out” because we are not going to be crashing out of the EU. We are going to be walking into our freedom. The greatest wisdom that I have heard in the last month or two is the phrase “no deal, no problem” because we will be leaving and going into World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. There are a couple of things that you said...

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

I just want to ask you about your plans for the taxi trade, which were announced yesterday. You said a couple of times in your update that taxi drivers need to do more to help with improving London’s air quality, but do you accept that they are doing everything that they can? The new ZEC taxis are being bought up as quickly as they roll off the production line up in Coventry.