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• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. We all share, among the various sentiments you have expressed, our thanks to the emergency services and to TfL. As I said to TfL, while with the emergency services we have come to expect and take for granted the high standard at which they operate, with TfL we had not been so used to such a speedy response. Five years ago, this might have been different. We have all been very aware of the public reaction. Just to mention one point: at the books of condolence here in City Hall, when I have stood...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Perhaps we should be careful about the term `backlash,- as well, because it implies that the effect is on those who are responsible.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I think I do have a right to reply to a personal comment like that in this meeting. I think if Mr Tuffrey had continued reading that letter out, it would have been made apparent that I have recently met the Royal Mail' I have a right of reply under Standing Orders to a personal attack made in this Assembly, and I think I made it absolutely clear that I had recently met Royal Mail in Kennington and taken up the issues of poor service standards in Kennington, because in addition to the post office closures, I think many Londoners...