• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

It is not from any fight as far as you are concerned that would have triggered the call?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Do you know why the police were called?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Can you help us? Who called the police?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I would just like to point out to the Lib Dems that you need some evidence before you refer the Mayor to the Standard Board for England and evidence is exactly what we do not have. Now short of evidence from other people who were at the party, short of the Archbishop of Canterbury coming and saying: I was at the party and I saw it, then we simply do not have evidence to refer the Mayor to the Standards Board for England.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

The second thing that you did on June 19th was to up the ante and turn this into a question of media ethics. Certainly I would have some sympathy with what you say in terms of Londoners wanting to see the back of this and getting to the bottom of it. But you have chosen to raise this to one of media ethics but are refusing then to take the two obvious routes open to you; one is the Press Complaints Committee and the other is to sue. Would you accept that Londoners who would like to get to the...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Effectively people are saying that you are lying to us and that matter should be investigated.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Thank you chair. Attention is focussed on the 18th and 19th May. I actually think we should be focussing on the 19th June when you came and voluntarily gave us a statement essentially on the assault, the man handling, and disappearing trick. You denied those but the position we are faced with today is that there are others who are saying other things. Now if they are telling the truth you are lying to us. It is very difficult for us to form a judgment of that. We are not, as my colleague has said, a kangaroo court. That is...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

TREVOR PHILLIPS: I think that is it. Is there anything else you would like to say Ken? KEN LIVINGSTONE: No. TREVOR PHILLIPS: Well you know you have never been known to miss an opportunity before so I just thought I would check. Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. Now before we do anything else I would like to put it to the Members: is there any Member who wishes to move a motion, procedural or otherwise? No. Well, let me just say at the end of this that it is interesting when other democratic chambers seem less and less relevant...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Did you speak to Mr Hedges yourself on the phone?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I just wanted to respond to one of the points that Jenny Jones made and go back to the question of the Standards Board. Jenny said you have to have evidence to do this. May I just say that the Evening Standard says that it has evidence and it does not have to be a member of this Assembly that refers to the Standards Board. Any member of the public and for that matter the editor of the Evening Standard in this particular case can refer it to the Standards Board, and I return to them and that is what...