So ignore the noise trust your voice um i like it because i think we do need to train young people to think about what they're seeing like how does this impact others why is this here what does it mean you know who's benefiting and the noise tool that you've developed is is a key part of that campaign so talk to us about the noise tool what it does and also the impact you're hoping it's going to have on young people

Well, first of all, we've been working in this area for a long time.

I'm somebody who has got six brothers, three older brothers, three younger brothers.

Went to an all-boys school.

And a great sister and a great mum as well.

I went to an all-boys school.

And so I reflected on my experiences growing up.

So what does that look like in regards to that training kit for fathers?

Mm.

We'd all have a pre-dawn breakfast.

She would have a dawn, pre-dawn breakfast.

We'd go to school or whatever.

We'd come back home and have a nap 'cause we're starving, hungry.

My mom would be cooking while she's fasting our, uh, you know, fast-breaking meal-

That was a good one.

So, so Ice, Ice Magic, you'd have some, you know, Sainsbury's, uh, vanilla ice cream.

So let's, let's hear more about the figures, and then let's address the question of whether or not they will actually do much to, um, address the perceptions, the false perceptions of, of London.

Look, one of the joys of a democracy, a-and it's a responsibility I take seriously, is to be held to account.

I think it's right and proper for people like me, the Prime Minister, and others to be held to account and challenged on a range of issues.

What I think is unacceptable is for there to be disinformation, misinformation, and, uh, lies.

I mean, analysis shows over the last, uh, couple of years, there's been a two hundred percent increase in stories on social media saying London is dangerous and London is in, uh, decline.

At the start of this year, uh, we set out, uh, figures, uh, to do with, uh, violence across the board, which showed the huge strides we'd made in London.

Homicide at all-time low.

Uh, does central government do enough to address the very specific issue of Islamophobic attacks, attacks on, on mosques?

So let's, let's hear more about the figures, and then let's address the question of whether or not they will actually do much to, um, address the perceptions, the false perceptions of, of London.

London.Look, one of the joys of a democracy, uh, and it's a responsibility I take seriously, is to be held to account.

I think it's right and proper for people like me, the Prime Minister, and others to be held to account and challenged on a range of issues.

What I think is unacceptable is for there to be disinformation, misinformation, and, uh, lies.

I mean, analysis shows over the last, uh, couple of years, there's been a 200% increase in stories on social media saying London is dangerous and London is in, uh, decline.

At the start of this year, uh, we set out, uh, figures, uh, to do with, uh, violence across the board, which showed the huge strides we'd made in London.

Homicide at all-time low.

Uh, does central government do enough to address the very specific issue of Islamophobic attacks, attacks on, on mosques?

What do you hear?

But when it comes to AI, which is the technology that I think will be the biggest game changer in my lifetime, I think there's a number of ways of looking at this.

Look, the three biggest disruptors of the last 200 years, there's been the Industrial Revolution, there's been globalization, and there's now been AI.

And why AI is fascinating for a number of reasons is the speed in which AI is going to transform our societies compared to globalization and industrial revolution.

But also, I think, unlike the previous two, this will impact white-collar jobs.

This will impact global cities.

And I'm not an AI evangelist.

Does Labour need to be stronger about telling Britain's story to the world?

Boris Johnson, for example.

Well, here's the interesting thing about people forgetting.

Um, the original idea of having a ULEZ was Boris Johnson's, right? Um, he had no real plans for it, but he recognized there was an issue of air pollution.

And when the going gets tough, the Tories disappear.

And so-- but I was determined to make sure we carried through this policy.

Why? Two big reasons.

O- one is, uh, I ran the London Marathon, uh, in twenty fourteen.

It does come from abroad.

Do you think talking about the Greens in that way, in the same breath as Farage and Reform, is a mistake?

Yes.

Look, I-I'm somebody who saw over the last ten years, and I campaigned in all three of my elections to be a mayor for all Londoners.

I-I-I'm regularly asking people who vote Reform or vote Green or vote Lib Dem or vote Conservative to lend me their vote, and I'm similarly persuading people who vote Labour to leave their homes and vote for me.

It's very difficult for me to do so if I'm denigrating the party they've previously, uh, supported, almost calling them stupid.

Uh, I think you'd be very careful whether it's Hillary Clinton, deplorables, whether it's David Cameron, what he said about UKIP and, uh, supporters of, uh, Farage, because what you do is you end up, uh, intentionally or, or unintentionally being tribalistic.

Uh, and that's not the way I like to do politics.

Well, they can

Where do you think things stand when it comes to climate change? Is this something that you feel you absolutely still are committed to combating?

There's good news and there's bad news.

Look, President Trump in his second term is very similar to President Trump as he was in his first term.

He walked away from the Paris Agreement.

very unilateralist, doesn't accept man-made climate changes happening, almost punishing those of us taking action to address the climate emergency.

That's the bad news.

The great news is you've got some great mayors in America, great governors in America, really stepping up into the breach across the globe.

How would you rate how you're doing and what do you think have been some of the biggest obstacles to building more housing? Obviously, everyone wants more housing, but what have been some of the obstacles,

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... cheapest T-shirts made, uh, uh, in East and Southeast Asia, this will affect white-collar jobs.

And so what I've announced today, uh, i- in my speech, uh, at this forum is, firstly, uh, we're gonna set up...

We've set up a, uh, task force, uh, led by crossbencher, uh, you know, Baroness, uh, Martha, uh, Lane Fox.

Uh, we should look at the future of work in London, what we can do to make sure AI helps us rather than hinders us.

I'm also announcing today free training for all Londoners in AI.

Really important.

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an apocalypse, if you knew that you'd never be able to, this might be your last meal and you had like a date to go and get stuff, what would you get?

For just me.

So my wife teases me and so do my girls because I'm actually quite simple.

So if it's English food, I love fish and chips.

It's got to be battered cod and chips with lots of vinegar, pickled onion.

That is my go-to.

I must have ketchup.

It

Yeah, I think

a lot of us, I mean, me included, our palate is dictated by the food we have at home, right? And so I was used to food with spices.

But also, we never ate out.

We couldn't afford to eat out.

I mean, firstly, there weren't great restaurants when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s that were affordable.

But secondly, we just didn't, I mean, people in my state, I was raised in a municipal house and we just didn't eat out.

It was just not the thing you do.

So should we just have some talk? I think it would be a shame not

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...

the, the wisdom of the Brits, [chuckles] they decided to get a, get a pen and a ruler and just divide the country.

So think of a rectangle.

They decided those where there are majority Muslims should be in one part of the country, those the majority Hindu and some Sikhs in another part.

So if you think of a rectangle, the east of the rectangle became west-- became East Pakistan, mainly Muslims, the middle bit became India, then there was another country called West Pakistan on the other side of India.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Yeah

Yes.

Hassan, I mean, I, I think housing is the single biggest challenge facing our capital city.

I think, uh, I think we've got a housing crisis.

There's no other way to explain that, and I'll explain how we got here, and I'll explain the solution.

So frankly speaking, over successive decades, the supply of housing has not met the demand, but it's become particularly worse over the last two, three years for a variety of reasons.

The pandemic caused big challenges in the housing market.

Uh, Brexit has led to big problems in terms of labor shortages, but also the inflation in construction.

Um, uh, I, I suppose you should respond to that, really.

Does anything change the narrative about the fact that a lot of people feel that London is unsafe?

Well, I think it's all linked, and by the way, thanks for having me back on, uh, News Agents.

Look, uh, I think one homicide is, uh, one death too many.

I think one violent crime is one victim, uh, too many.

Uh, but what, uh, the latest evidence shows is just an example of the progress we've made, which even the most harshest critic will have to accept we are unarguably now the safest city when it comes to homicides in the world.

Far safer than Paris, uh, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Toronto, any state in the USA.

But you're right, there's a perception, which we've got to address, and the best way to address the perception is by dealing with the reality, which is the, uh, crime.

That's where the debate has moved to.

Uh, what is your response to that?

Uh, I'm quite cognizant of the fact that there may be people listening to this i- in America or around the world who've never been to, uh, London, so it's important I impart some facts about London.

So for example, when you compare the homicide rates, which is, uh, an objective way to measure crime, in London versus per capita New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Paris, Toronto, Madrid, Berlin, they're less in London than those great cities.

Burglaries have come down over the last, uh, nine, uh, years.

Knife crime has, uh, come down.

Those going to hospital has been reduced from, uh, crime.

Personal robbery is down.

I'm wondering how you've weighed that and, uh, and what's that meant to you?

here.

He does not think the climate change catastrophe is a scam.

He does believe the science is really important.

But also, it's really important that he's here because it sends a message.

We take it seriously.

What I want to do is turn this crisis into an opportunity.

But also, it's got to be a joint endeavor.

How much of that is a surprise to you and how much do you think about the role of London on the global stage?

And-Yeah, that's my question.

No, Simon, thanks for your question.

A- and actually, Simon, your question goes to the core o- of the joys of, of living in London, uh, uh, and the pleasures and displeasures.

It's a quality-of-life issue and actually one of the most important issues that I think politicians should be grappling with.

And there's a, there's a great saying from a Democratic politician, "All politics is local." So I'm really pleased you raised the call.

So let me explain to you the way it works, and then I'll explain to you what we're doing about it.

So the way it works is that our 32 boroughs, as you've alluded to, Simon, are responsible for their own areas.

And then, of course, the, um, reported failure of the authorities to respond satisfactorily.

If you are the, the prime minister, will you make such comment that the way island, uh, Britain is gonna become a island for foreigner? And again, will such remark make it difficult people like you to become a leader in Labour?

Well, Sonny, I won't deal with the mischief-making in your question.

I'll deal with the substance of your point if that's okay, which is, look-Um, it's really important, uh, that I share my experiences as not just the child of imm- immigrants, but as somebody born and raised in this city and have seen the contribution, uh, migrants have made.

But let's look at the- the- the stats and the evidence, whether you look at the OECD, PwC, the government's own Migration Advisory Committee.

So a skilled migrant, uh, will contribute on average 16,000 pounds a year towards our economy, and that's when you include the public services he or she may use.

By the way, compare that to a- a- a Brit-skilled worker, uh, that's 800 pounds minus the public services they use.

And here's the lovely stat, uh, Sunny, which you'll enjoy.

Why is that?

Why are we focusing, or at least in the report I've seen, on Sutton, Croydon and Merton and Bromley and Harrow?

Harrow?Well, it might just be, James, good morning, uh, that we've seen massive improvements in those areas.

A reduction of, uh, fifteen percent plus in poison, in nitrogen dioxide, but also these were the boroughs, some of them, who, uh, objected the most and even took me to court unsuccessfully.

And so it's good to see the residents of those boroughs notwithstanding, uh, the political decisions taken by their council leaders benefiting from the world's largest clean air zone.

And just to give your listeners an idea of the report published today, it's being analyzed and peer-reviewed by experts from Imperial College from Germany, Belgium, France, uh, indeed York University.

And what it shows is the ULEZ is working.

A reduction in nitrogen dioxide by twenty-seven percent across London, nitrogen oxides by thirty-six percent across London and PM two point five, particulate matter two point five, by thirty-one percent in outer, uh, London.

But Bob Smi-- Colin Smith, the leader of Bromley Council, is, is adamant that there has been a huge financial expense for people, that businesses have had to buy new vehicles, that care networks have been destroyed, that people have had to change their jobs when they didn't really want to for a, for a scheme that... or, or rather buying vehicles that they didn't want or need.