00:00One part of the question which you didn't address was whether the Chancellor embraced her inner Peggy Mitchell
00:05and ordered you, get out of my office. Did she?
00:09There's been lots of rehearsal taking place in advance of MQT's icon.
00:12No, no, no.
00:13Can I just say, I've never been thrown out of anybody's office as the Mayor, Minister, MP or a lawyer,
00:21but it helps. I've never received the red card at football either, nor I think slammed a door ever in my life.
00:26Thank you. You may not have been thrown out, but the order may have been given, but there we are.
00:36Right, Mr Mayor, I still didn't really hear a response to Assemblymember Robert's question.
00:40Look, we're all friends here. Come on, you've got a packed public gallery. Come on, dish the gossip.
00:45Did the Chancellor kick you out of her office? Come on.
00:48No, I wish she did. It's a great anecdote and a great story to tell.
00:53I don't think I've ever been kicked out of anybody's office in my life, and I was trying to use the analogy.
00:59Yeah, yeah.
01:02I'm not going to your office as a result. I quite like the record of not being kicked out, so I'm not going to it.
01:06So, Mr Mayor, I know you're an enormous fan of semantics.
01:12You weren't asked to leave. We use kicked out as a rough term.
01:16She didn't politely say, all right, Sadiq, come on, I've got my next meeting to get to.
01:19She did not ask you to leave her office.
01:22I've often told people to leave because I've got an excuse in coming.
01:25I didn't ask what you do. I asked what the Chancellor did.
01:28I mean, I don't know the exact words she used.
01:32I mean, I can...
01:33Oh!
01:34It was very fraternal, as it always is when I see the Chancellor.
01:39So, OK, so now we've finally gotten to the bottom of it, she may have asked you to leave her office, but we'll move on.
01:49In terms of this story, did you or your team leak the fact that the Chancellor may or may have not have kicked you out of her office?
01:59I can say with confidence that my team doesn't leak.
02:02Good.
02:04Well, you might be the only Labour politician that doesn't, Mr Mayor.
