• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

How do you think he is going to deal with the low level of morale among Tube workers and in the unions and so on after this protracted struggle?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I am concerned about how it is going to be run over the next four years when it is finally handed over to us. Earlier in the year, you said that Bob Kiley would be staying whether or not the Government scheme went ahead. Is that still true?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

But with respect, Londoners expect the Mayor of London to be a powerful figure who will do a deal of some kind with the Government. You seem to spend your life grandstanding, gesticulating, repenting your past sins in voting for the Act by mistake; and no deal is being done. I think that Londoners can reasonably assume that you have not really been working on this, and it is not going to happen.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

So in summary, in a moment of weakness you voted with the Government, of whose party you were then a member, and you are going to spend the next four years punishing Londoners by not delivering anything on the Underground. You are going to stand for re-election on a manifesto that says, "I didn't get round to it in the last four years. Vote for me again, and I might do something in four years' time." [Laughter.]

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

But as I said, it is not Bob Kiley who determines it. He may have a view - I may have a view and hundreds of other people may have a view - but it is, by law, the Health and Safety Executive and the Railways Inspectorate who are responsible: it is not Bob Kiley, not you, not the Government. Do you not accept that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

You rightly praised Docklands Light Railway for the service it provides. I wonder what positive lessons you take away from the DLR to apply, for example, to the Central line, which has constant signal breakdowns and train failures and is an embarrassment to London Underground, over which you will eventually preside.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

What worries me about this is that what you are saying is reasonable, but it conflicts with your article in the Independent this morning, which creates a new ideological battleground for yourself against the Government on the question whether private involvement in public sector provision should be pursued. I feel strongly that a bottom line which should be non-negotiable is the terms and conditions and security of employees. Another is about safety. Are you saying that the new Ken Livingstone, as of 38 seconds ago, after writing this article, would be minded to explore those options if they could achieve...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

This is where I have a problem with the image that is developing of you in your presentation this morning - that, as Mayor, you are a cross between Dirty Harry in your relationship with the Government and the Care Bears in your relationship with the public of London. The Mayor: I think the public have it about right. John Biggs: Obviously, any credible, serious politician sometimes has to be brave, and the interesting thing about the DLR - I was opposed to this at the time - is that it was effectively privatised through a franchise agreement which has...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Can I take you back, Ken, to the subject of partnership? I can recognise a partner you have not used, and that is the Government. Because Londoners are not stupid, they know that, no matter how worthy the case you are going to put for London, which most people support, it is weak because you do not have a good enough relationship with the Government of the day, who are a key partner. What Londoners want to hear from you is what moves you are making to re-establish that partnership and work with your friend at the Treasury or wherever...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I cannot really believe what I have just heard - the Mayor extolling the need to put resources into outer London, when his own strategies do not do that. Outer London has been ignored. We have dubbed you the zone 1 Mayor with good reason. The Mayor: Steve Norris dubbed me the zone 1 Mayor. Meg Hillier: You are leading a "Fair Deal for London" campaign, when you are certainly not perceived by Londoners in outer London as representing their interests or investing in their areas. I leave that as a comment. When it comes to working with partners, you...