• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Can I also suggest then that you stop putting in your thing that `London First has gone a long way to putting the record straight'. Presumably, their evidence is just as anecdotal as anybody else's.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

So why does your report say: `There has been a lot of misleading coverage about the impact of congestion charging on business in London. Research by London First has gone a long to putting the record straight." Who are you saying is being misleading? Are you accusing the Federation of Small Businesses and the London Chamber of Commerce of being misleading in their surveys?

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I have a problem with this, because it seems to me that the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of London should be standing up with one voice. You saying that actually you are going to say this and my Deputy will say that, will cause real problems in my view for all the agencies that you will have to work with in London.

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Exactly what do you think the Deputy Mayor will be leading on if you will be taking on all the big issues like the Thames River Crossing and the Olympics?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I do not think it would have helped if I had made 350 speeches against you and your policies.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

You have told us of two issues this morning where you will lead instead of the Deputy Mayor. What will the Deputy Mayor lead on?

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Both as a new member of the Assembly and seeing what has happened with the Deputy Mayorship going to the Greens in this final year of your administration, I might take a rather cynical view about you trying to appeal to the environmentalists at this point in your term. But perhaps I am wrong in that.

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

So you admit there may be barking mad suggestions from your Deputy Mayor?

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

But I do not think that is quite going to work is it? You are the voice for Londoners and you have appointed a Deputy also to have a voice for Londoners. If one person is saying one thing and the other person is saying something else, how is this bid going to get the partnership work that it needs, the strong voice for London? I do not understand how you will achieve that.

• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I was interested in what you were saying earlier on about the need for a strong voice for regional government. You talked about enemies of London and how you were always pressing the case for London. I wanted to see your reaction to what your reaction was to what you Deputy recently said in the Manchester Evening News on 11 June " which seems quite an interesting date. `I am opposed to a London Olympic Bid for 2012. " said Ms Jones, "I think a Manchester a bid would be preferable, not least because Manchester has just built a number...