Inside City Hall

Neil Garratt and Emma Best

Fortnightly news from London's City Hall and discussion of the issues affecting London. Hosted by Conservative London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best.

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    Budget week: police numbers, potholes, grooming gang enquiry, phone theft and bike theft, night life, and why Mayor Khan needs a new strategy

    Season 3, Episode 4 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best discuss: Waste of the Week (0:57): pub quiz question, how many Deputy Mayors does London have? Conservative Budget Amendment (3:50): Police funding, police officers v staff, phone and bike theft, night life prosperity fund, pot hole fund, London investigation into child grooming,  Tech issues (18:02): For the biggest meeting of the year, none of the mics in City Hall's Chamber were working, and the live stream wasn't working. City Hall's lengthy saga of IT and tech problems. People's Question Time (21:30): in Haringey. Thanks to the Mayor making the location secret, the public are staying away. Who would have guessed? Rachel Reeves doesn't mention London (28:45): recalling last year's national Labour budget following the election, and the strains of the Labour Mayor Khan finding his new post-election place in the new Labour pecking order. Nationalised rail? Rent control? What will the Mayor's strategy be now he can no longer blame everything on the government?   Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22   Email us:  Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk   Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube

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    Police budget pressure, Labour Attack on School STEM, Tackling London's Theft Epidemic, and GLAP is Waste Of The Week

    Series 3 Episode 2 We are so back! On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and co-host Emma Best discuss: Waste Of The Week. Through GLAP, the GLA owns 6.3 square km of London which was supposed to be redeveloped. It is many, many years behind schedule having languished under Mayor Khan, leaving the GLA parent at least £250m out of pocket. Police Budget Pressure (2:40). Thanks to the Mayor's spending choices, the Met is going to have to lose many officers. But how many? 2600? 1300? Some other number? Labour Attack On School STEM (6:29). Emma's motion to the Assembly challenging Labour's attack on maths, physics, computer science, and adult learning. Tackling London's Theft Epidemic (12:10). Neil's report launched on Tuesday with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Dr Lawrence Newport founder of the Crush Crime campaign. We show how the fact that crime is concentrated among certain highly prolific offenders and in certain places, you can target them and get huge results. Read the report: TACKLING LONDON'S THEFT EPIDEMIC: CITY HALL CONSERVATIVES LEADER JOINED BY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY AND CRUSH CRIME FOUNDER Crush Crime: Petition - Crush Crime   Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @EmmaBest22   Email us:  Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Emma.Best@London.gov.uk   Need more City Hall news? Try: Neil's City Hall Diary on substack City Hall Conservatives on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube

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    Shawcross Prevent Review, ULEZ "computer says no", Wennington fire, and the Mayor's bad junk food science.

    Series 2 Episode 12 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: Shawcross review. The Police and Crime Committee looked at the major review of the Prevent anti-terrorism programme. ULEZ. Unusually, not the charge itself but TfL's "computer says no" approach to people trying to pay it. Wennington fire. The London Fire Brigade's review of last year's major blaze which highlights that the LFB faces some distinctly rural firefighting problems, as well as more familiar urban and high rise challenges. Mayor's Junk Food ad ban. Research widely quoted by the Mayor and his allies has been cited by academics as case study for bad science, the kind of activist "research" that undermines public confidence in science. What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? In a naval-themed discussion, Neil's been watching the classic Master and Commander starring Russel Crowe, while Nick watched BBC documentary The Warship: Tour of Duty following Britain's biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage through disputed waters around China. Do you have a question for us? Tweet us: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @CityHallPodcast   Email us:  Neil.Garratt@London.gov.uk Nick.Rogers@London.gov.uk   Need more City Hall news? Try Neil's City Hall Diary on substack Or the City Hall Conservatives on YouTube

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Fortnightly news from London's City Hall and discussion of the issues affecting London. Hosted by Conservative London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best.