• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Mr Mayor, how do you, in a scale of one to ten, rate the questions you have been asked by the Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green parties?! Could I ask you to very, very quickly do something wrong because they need to ask a question which matters and, as far as I am concerned, the naval gazing from the other parties is an absolute irrelevance to people in London who want to talk about services, want to talk about the environment and not the appointment of an environment adviser.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

When will we be seeing the remaining appointments?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Was it clear, for instance, what the relationship between those people and the London Development Agency was? Is that something you intend to clarify?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

You do not know anybody who knows anything about the environment. That is true is it not?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

You are repeating yourself again. Please do not repeat yourself; it is offensive to us and it takes my time. When are you going to appoint an environmental adviser?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Let us try and bring a bit of common sense back to this because if you listen to the sort of comments we have heard this morning you would think, Mr Mayor, that the people you gather around you still have to prove themselves. The truth is that Londoners will be pleased to know they have all proved themselves already in senior capacities elsewhere and Londoners will be particularly pleased to see that you have senior figures from local government helping you because, regrettably, your predecessor could not find any whom he had not fallen out with to assist him...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Yes, but you said your advisers demonstrate that the topics they cover are very important priorities. When is the environment going to be a very important priority for you?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Were the job descriptions of the Mayor's previous appointees any use to you?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can I explain where I am coming from on this issue? You were very critical before of what you called a Mayor and his coterie advisers, of sofa style government, of cronyism, of lack of accountability -- It is all in here. It is all in here. You might care to reread it: Making London's Mayor Accountable. You made a number of promises and what has happened is confusion. In the public's mind a Mayor is elected, and they are clear what a director and an adviser do, and you have confused those. Because most people think Mayors are elected...

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

My heart goes out to the people on the other side of this Chamber who, whilst passionate, clearly are so blinkered they cannot envisage a style of administration other than the one they have witnessed over the last eight years. As I say, that is quite heartfelt concern for them. Would you agree with me that on the elections of May of this year the people of London voted for a change; a change not just of individual but a change of style of government? I applaud the fact that you have embraced that change. Also, may I remind you...