00:00I think we do need to face up to the fact that there are proxy attacks happening in London.
00:04It is easy for other parties to put forward promises which they know they can't keep.
00:11We stand with our Jewish community. We do and we will.
00:15Prime Minister, the electorates are looming. You're facing a new threat from
00:19the Greens and for reform. What's your message to Londoners?
00:22My message to Londoners is that we've got fantastic candidates, fantastic councillors,
00:28who really worked hard to deliver the services that matter. We as a government are centrally
00:33focused on what matters to Londoners, in particular housing under London MP.
00:39I know what comes in the inbox. It is housing, housing, housing. We don't have enough housing
00:43and that's why we've got plans to increase our housing working with the mayor.
00:48Whilst we're putting those plans in place and getting those houses built, what are Greens doing?
00:52They're blocking all of these houses being built. For Londoners, that is the wrong answer.
00:57We're also managing through a very difficult situation globally. We've got a war on Ukraine and Iran.
01:04We're not getting dragged into the wall with Iran, but we must protect our country from the impacts of
01:10that and that's the context in which we're working. But I'll never lose sight of what matters to Londoners
01:15and that's the cost of living. We are governing in difficult circumstances given the global context.
01:20It is easy for other partners to put forward promises which they know they can't keep.
01:27But if you look at Labour councils across London, you'll see really well-run services.
01:32You'll see houses being built. In this borough, we've got more houses being built than in any other borough across
01:38London.
01:38That's the thing that matters, focusing on the things that actually make a difference to people's lives.
01:43We have to understand the fear and anxiety and the lack of basic safety and security felt by our Jewish
01:49community.
01:50And we often say we stand with our Jewish community. We do and we will, but it actually has to
01:56be our fight as well.
01:58It has to be a whole society fight. We need to see this as a fight that is not just
02:03alongside our Jewish community.
02:05Of course it is that. But it's also a fight for what we believe in, the tolerant, reasonable country.
02:10I want people to be able to express their identity, to be able to practice their faith and their religion,
02:17go to their synagogues, to their schools, to their streets, safe and secure. That is the country that we have
02:23to fight for or we will fight it for.
02:25And just earlier, you were very clear that London is under a tax, these arson tax, that it's been done
02:30by a proxy.
02:31Presumably you mean Iran and the IRGC.
02:33I think we do need to face up to the fact that there are proxy attacks happening in London.
02:39And that's why I named Tract Iran this morning. And that's why we will cast Tract legislation to deal with
02:44malign powers so we could take more measures.
02:48But yes, that is a feature of this. It's not the only feature because anti-Semitism has been with us
02:53for a very long time.
02:54And I know from personal experience, the Labour Party, you have to keep coming back to it and fighting it.
03:00And that's what we can do.
03:01And on another issue that really matters to London, how do you stop so many tube strikes by the RMG
03:07causing travel misery for Londoners?
03:08Well, let me start by saying how frustrating it is for Londoners every time this happens. We need to get
03:13everybody back around the table. We need to resolve this as quickly as possible.
03:17Well, firstly, I think it is worth pointing out that the homicide rate is coming down. Any homicide is a
03:27tragedy.
03:28But the fact the rate is coming down does show the work that the mayor is doing with the Labour
03:32government on this.
03:34Of course, we need to do more on things like knife crime, taking a number of measures there, including banning
03:39the sale of online knives, working with others on the preventative model.
03:43This is a huge issue for what we're doing in the city, because I know from my own constituency, the
03:47devastating impact that knife crime can have.
03:50And we're doing everything we can to reduce that, to mitigate that so other families don't have to go through
03:55what some of the families have already been through.
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