• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

On Thursday, Bob Crowe said, "I think we will be laying down more dates for industrial action". In the light of that, do you intend to dismiss him from the Board of TfL?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Why did you say that there should be no more strikes, Ken?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Why, therefore, did you say in the Mayor's Question Time on 17 October 2001, "There should be no more strikes"?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

You said, in answer to Members on 8 November 2000, it was a requirement of all candidates to the TfL Board that they place the interest of passengers as their top priority. Do you think Mr Crowe placed the interest of passengers as his top priority on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, when he brought the Tube out on strike?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

And that, I take it, would be consistent with the view expressed by your economic adviser in 1974 when he called for armed workers militias? Is that the sort of people you surround yourself with, Ken?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Is it perhaps because you need their political support that you have consistently, throughout your mayoralty, failed to condemn industrial disruption on the Tube?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I think you are right. So, your message, do I get it from you finally, to Bob Crowe is no more strikes please?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Therefore, you would advise them not to strike in future?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Then you will have no difficulty in unequivocally condemning it, will you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Will you state unequivocally that you, as Mayor, believe it is inappropriate that there should be strikes on the Underground and that you condemn strikes on the Underground?