Sadiq Khan tells @LBC that Cobra hasn’t met since May 10.
He says he has not had any contact with the PM since then.
Sadiq Khan says “he is not happy” with the congestion charge being extended to weekends and raised to £15 a day.
He tells @mrjamesob that if he had refused the Government would have pulled the £1.6billion bailout necessary because of TfL’s drop in revenue.
But the mayor says he supports local councils to build cycle lanes.
He is also piloting more 24-hour bus lanes because he says he “doesn’t want to replace one crisis (Covid) with another (air pollution).”
The mayor says there have been one or two areas in London where there have been issues with congestion blocking emergency services, namely in Ealing and Wandsworth.
Sadiq Khan says the Government has to step in and fix Hammersmith Bridge because neither the local council, nor TfL, can afford the works.
“We just need some financial support to get it re-opened.”
Sadiq says no fireworks in London for NYE.
“Nothing happening” in central London on Dec 31st. Asked if people could still come in to pubs, he says we’ll have to see how the virus pans out.
He says City Hall working on a project people can enjoy from their own home.
Mayor is played audio of him being abused a small section of black cab drivers.
He said it happens to him more often than other politicians. In one instance, he was confronted with a mock guillotine.
He says it upsets his wife and daughters in “ways that I cannot describe”.
He says the only reason he accepted police protection because of the resulting threat posed by the abuse to his family and staff.
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Rachel Reeves tells MPs it's "not the first time" Labour has had to rebuild Britain, as she compares her Budget to the task of rebuilding the country after WW2.
Noticeably political opening from the Chancellor, as she promises to publish a "line by line" breakdown on the £22bn blackhole.
She points to the OBR saying that the last Tory government "did not provide" all the information to them. Had they done so, the OBR March forecast would have been "materially different".
According to Ryan Dunleavy, head honcho for GDPR breaches at Harcus Parker solicitors, Mr Hancock should have sought consent of the individuals who replied to his messages before he passed them to Isabel Oakeshott.
The NDA, in Mr Dunleavy's view, makes no difference.
Mr Dunleavy: "More than the damages, the important thing to think about is the legal costs.
"A case of this nature would have to go to the Specialist High Court media and communications list.
"Cases there routinely go into the millions of pounds when it comes to legal costs."
Lord Mann, HMG's independent adviser on anti-Semitism, has told @LBC Sir Keir Starmer will have to throw Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi off Labour's NEC unless she can evidence claims "right-wingers" were allowed to stay in the party despite denying the Holocaust.
In a Palestine Deep Dive podcast from last week (h/t @JewishNewsUK / @lmharpin got there first), Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi made the following claim:
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi was only elected to the NEC three-weeks-ago, having received significant support from the Left.
But Lord Mann wants her to evidence the claims and expects a response in 24 hours.
If she can't, Lord Mann would expect Keir Starmer to throw her off the NEC.
Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan tells @LBC that they don't have the final numbers yet but the Government believes around 250,000 people queued to watch Queen Elizabeth II lying-in-state in Westminster Hall.
Is Emmanuel Macron a friend or foe this morning?
Michelle Donelan says the comments by Liz Truss during the leadership contest that the "jury's out" should not be "over-egged".
The two leaders have had many "warm conversations" already this week, she adds.
Michelle Donelan says whilst there were no announcements during the period of national mourning, work has been going ahead on the Northern Ireland Protocol "behind the scenes".
Levelling-up Secretary Simon Clarke tells @LBC "Putin has been weaponising energy" to "make the current situation unbearable".
Mr Clarke says he hopes today's package of financial support will be a "lasting solution" to the crisis.
He says gas prices could remain high for the next "year or two ahead".
Rejecting the idea of another windfall tax, Mr Clarke adds the PM's "key principle" is that "we cannot tax our way to the investment we need to see in energy self-sufficiency in the North Sea".
"It's not as though these companies are not already paying their fair share," Mr Clarke adds.
On housing, he says the Government needs to "move away from top down" targets to build more homes.
The Government would be wrong to be "hammering" communities with new homes.
Health Secretary Therese Coffey tells @LBC she is "very conscious that we need to make improvements and we need to make them quickly" to the health service.
Asked about possible strike action in the NHS, Therese Coffey says she hopes that doctors and nurses "will continue to put their patients first".
She says she doesn't yet have the numbers to hand about the pay package being offered to junior doctors.
Therese Coffey confirms support offered to people with their energy bills will be announced later this week by the Government.