00:00I think we do need to face up to the fact that there are proxy attacks happening in London.
00:05It is easy for other partners 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 electors are looming. You're facing a new threat from the Greens and for reform.
00:21What's your message to Londoners?
00:22My message to Londoners is that we've got fantastic candidates, fantastic councillors
00:28who've really worked hard to deliver the services that matter.
00:31We as a government are centrally focused on what matters to Londoners, in particular housing.
00:37I'm a London MP. I know what comes in the inbox. It is housing, housing, housing.
00:42We don't have enough housing and 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.
01:02We've got a war on two front, Ukraine and Iran. We're not getting dragged into the war with Iran.
01:07We must protect our country from the impacts of that.
01:10And that's the context in which we're working.
01:12But I'll never lose sight of what matters to Londoners, and that's the cost of living.
01:16We are governing in difficult circumstances given the global context.
01:20It is easy for other parters 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.
01:34In this borough, we've got more houses being built than in any other borough across London.
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.
01:54We do and we will. But it actually has to be our fight as well.
01:58It has to be a whole society fight.
02:00We need to see this as a fight that is not just alongside our Jewish community.
02:05Of course it is that.
02:06But it's also a fight for what we believe in, the tolerant, reasonable country.
02:09I 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.
02:21That is the country that we have to fight for and we will fight for.
02:25And just earlier, you were very clear that London is under attack, these arson attacks,
02:29that it's been done by 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 name-trapped Iran this morning.
02:41And that's why we were going to pass-trapped legislation to deal with malign powers,
02:46so we could take more measures.
02:48But yes, that is a feature of this.
02:50It's not the only feature, because anti-Semitism has been with us for a very long time.
02:54And I know from personal experience of the Labour Party,
02:57you have to keep coming back to it and fighting it.
03:00And that's what we will do.
03:01And on another issue that really matters to London,
03:04how do you stop so many tube strikes by the RMT causing travel misery for Londoners?
03:08Well, I'm going to start by saying how frustrating it is for Londoners every time this happens.
03:13We need to get everybody back around the table.
03:15We need to resolve this as quickly as possible.
03:17And on crime?
03:18Well, firstly, I think it is worth pointing out that the homicide rate is coming down.
03:24So any homicide is a tragedy.
03:28But the fact that the rate is coming down does show the work that the mayor is doing with the
03:32Labour government on this.
03:33Of course we need to do more on things like knife crime.
03:36Taking a number of measures there, including banning the sale of online knives,
03:41working with others on the preventative model of what we're doing in schools.
03:45Because I know from my own constituency the devastating impact that knife crime can have.
03:50And we're doing everything we can to reduce that, to mitigate that.
03:53So other families don't have to go through what some of the families have already been through.
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