• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Unmesh Desai AM: I have 20 seconds to make two quick points, Mr Mayor. Firstly, in 2016, the PCC did a report about intimidation in Tower Hamlets during the local government elections. Those findings are still relevant. It is not the law; it is the failure to implement the law that is the problem. Can you get your office and MOPAC to revisit the recommendations to see that they are still relevant? Secondly, you did tell us that the MPS was going to do a report on the recent general elections and intimidation faced by candidates from all parties

• Question by: Anne Clarke
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Anne Clarke AM: Just coming back to the original question about hate crime in London, one of the important things that you said that stuck with me since 7 October [2023] has been really the very clear message - and I wonder if you wanted to take this opportunity to once again say again - that when things are happening in other places in the world, it is often those in London, in our great city, who feel the effects of that. You do have a powerful message about how we treat each other in the city and the expectation...