Inside City Hall

Season 3, Episode 4 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Emma Best discuss:   Waste of the Week : TfL union facility time Mayor axes cyber crime helpline . A trivial saving, an important service lost. Mobile phone and bike theft missing from Mayor's Draft Police and Crime Plan. Net Zero . The Mayor's completely unrealistic "ambitious" Net Zero by 2030 plan. Th...

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 (...

Welcome to Inside City Hall series 3 episode 3 This special episode is all about Tackling London's Theft Epidemic, especially mobile phones and bikes. The rest of this episode consists of the full as-live recording of our launch event in City Hall from last Tuesday, for those who weren't able to attend in person. You'll hear me introduce the event, launching my new report. Then Dr Lawrence Newport...

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 (2:4...

Series 3 Episode 1 On Inside City Hall this episode, London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and new co-host Emma Best discuss: Election Results. Including a sales pitch for the modified d'Hondt electoral system used for electing Assembly Members. Tram Trouble. Rolling stock problems on the Croydon Tram, echoing Central Line problems. The repeated fares freezes sound good, but is it short-term gain,...

Series 2 Episode 13 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: ULEZ - a "major" announcement. The Mayor makes a "major" announcement about ULEZ Scrappage, but it looks more like a rounding error that fails to solve the cost of living impact of the Mayor's charge and still leaves companies playing ULEZ Musical Chairs with too few compliant vans available to meet the dem...

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 hi...

Series 2 Episode 11 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: People's Question Time. The people want to talk about ULEZ, but the Mayor wants to smear critics as "holding hands with the far right". City Hall Budget. And the Conservative alternative to tackle dirty air and the cost of living. Road Pricing. The Mayor's post-ULEZ pay-per-mile plan to charge every vehicle in...

Series 2 Episode 10 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: The Mayor's Cost of Living Summit with Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert does not go as planned when the public bring up ULEZ and Martin thinks they have a point. Then undermines the Mayor's rent control obsession. Blue light shared working , eg police making use of space in fire stations. Missing children...

 Series 2 Episode 9 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: - The new ULEZ Scrappage scheme , which launched on Monday, - How Sir Mark Rowley is cleaning up the Met, while the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime may not be helping, - Nick's article on the future of Conservatives in millennial London, - The Night Czar gets 40% pay rise , but what is there to show for...

Series 2, Episode 8. How the Mayor's ULEZ lines crumbled Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers are joined by fellow AM Peter Fortune in the aftermath of an explosive January Mayoral Question Time at which we confronted Mayor Khan with the paper trail showing the Mayor had made false and dishonest statements about his ULEZ consultation. It's been covered by the BBC, ITV, the Evening Standard but here we go...

Series 2, Episode 7. Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers review the latest news from London and City Hall, in this episode: - Mayor Sadiq Khan's Solar Together plan for home solar panels. Aiming to generate electricity, it's also generated huge numbers of complaints, even the Mayor publicly admitted it had gone wrong. Neil's Audit Panel has investigated and found serious problems with the process. - A ye...

Series 2, Episode 6. Neil and Nick are joined in the Windsor Castle pub by special guest Dr Tom Cohen , a Senior Lecturer in transport at the University of Westminster. We discuss: - Childhood transport memories, - Active travel, cycling, e-bikes and e-scooters, - "shared mobility" such as dockless bikes, and why it's not really sharing if you charge rent, - How to run consultations with the publi...

This week on Inside City Hall: - Neil and Nick give their first impressions of Sir Mark Rowley after his first appearance at the Police and Crime Committee, - What to do about Just Stop Oil? What did Sir Mark say when we asked him? - Neil laments attacks on art, will galleries just put everything behind glass like the Mona Lisa? - Sustained questioning of the Mayor about ULEZ, where he admitted it...

From Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Neil Garratt AM and Nick Rogers AM look at the big City Hall and London news from the last week. - The Mayor legally summonsed to give evidence to the Assembly about the Tom Winsor report. - ULEZ consultation results were leaked, showing huge public opposition even while Mayor's attempts to hige negative responses - Could the medieval experience of...

London Assembly Members  Neil Garratt  and  Nick Rogers  discuss: - The Met Police being put in "special measures", - The Mayor's ULEZ consultation , - Car ownership patterns across London, including this fascinating map , - The emerging truth about the Mayor's City Hall move. Spoiler: it hasn't gone well, savings are already just half what he claimed, and the Mayor has asked staff to get back in...

London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: - TfL fares freeze - Bus cuts consultation - TfL Bailout - Expanding ULEZ to the whole of London - The unreal transport debate in City Hall - The critical importance of economic growth Petition against ULEZ expansion The Mayor's ULEZ consultation Or (much easier) enter the Mayor's consultation by emailing your view to: cleanairyourview@...

London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers are joined by fellow AM Andrew Boff to discuss London's 2012 Olympic legacy, 10 years on. Also in the news this week: - Crossrail (finally!) opens on Monday - Why the Mayor's stats on road safety are bogus - Nick asked the Mayor how he'll rebuild trust with the Met Police - Andrew's questions to the Mayor on neurodiverse Londoners and trans heal...

Neil Garratt AM and Nick Rogers AM are joined by our colleagues Peter Fortune AM and Emma Best AM for our end of season special. Inside City Hall will return for the next civic year in May. In this episode: - We are finally in the new City Hall! But it's still not quite right... - Neil's Economy Ctte reports on Apprenticeships and the gig economy - Nick's report on SW London transport, fabulously...

Neil Garratt AM and Nick Rogers AM look at this week's news from London City Hall: - We visit the Met Police Public Order team and learn abour protesters glued to shops, - Nick tries in vain to find out from the Deputy Mayor for Business how tube strikes are affecting business in London, - Neil's Economy Committee report on Tourism in London: something the Mayor doesn't seem focussed on, - Quizzin...

Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers look at this week's City Hall news, then talk to Allen Simpson from London & Partners about the capital's financial and professional services economy - what are the risks and opportunities it faces? - The Met Police Commissioner resigns - TfL Fares rise 4.8%, shutting the door on the Mayor's fares freeze - Behind the scenes trip on Crossrail, now known as the Elizabeth...

Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers look at the many problems currently facing the Met Police, and Nick speaks to Nickie Aiken MP, Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminister. - Child Sexual Exploitation and treating children as victims, - The IOPC report into shocking "banter" messages, - The Stephen Port murders, - and "putting the Commissioner on notice", as the Mayor claimed to hav...

Neil Garratt and Nicholas Rogers are joined by special guest Emma Best AM to talk about the final Mayor's Question Time of 2021, the latest from TfL bailout talks, bus safety, imaginary police officers, domestic violence, London's fraud epidemic, and our plans for 2022. Follow us on Twitter: @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @EmmaBest22

Neil Garratt and Nicholas Rogers talk about the Mayor's policing priorities, Transport for London's finances and their first People's Question Time. Special guest Shaun Bailey AM joins the podcast to talk about the Mayor's Police and Crime plan. Have your say on the Metropolitan Police's priorities by responding to the consultation by 21 January 2022: https://www.london.gov.uk/talk-london/mayors-p...

Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers are joined by special guest Daniel Kosky from the London Jewish Forum about Hanukkah and Jewish life in London. Also this episode: Leaving City Hall – the last Inside City Hall from inside city hall. Visiting London air ambulance and fire stations. Remembrance weekend. Night Tube reopening. ULEZ expansion. London's gig economy. Follow us on Twitter: @NeilGarratt @NJROn...