Tory candidate Susan Hall promised on Monday to “fix” London as she published her mayoral manifesto.She told Londoners they had 10 days to scrap the Ulez expansion and to stop the introduction of “pay-per-mile” road charging, though her Labour rival Sadiq Khan insists he has abandoned any plans for such a system.
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00:00 With just 10 days until the Mayoral election, Tory candidate and former teenage mechanic
00:06 Susan Hall has come to this car garage in Bexley to show that she has the skills to
00:12 fix London.
00:13 So every time I look in the engine now I look and I think oh my god it's all electric, whereas
00:20 many years ago it was very simple.
00:22 Now to coincide with this visit, Susan has published her manifesto. What's in it? Well,
00:28 largely as expected. There's a focus on tackling crime, she would recruit an extra 1,500 police
00:34 officers for the Met Police and also getting rid of the U.S. expansion on day one.
00:40 Susan also promises to end what she calls the war on the motorist. What does she mean?
00:45 Well, she would get rid of a number of 20 mile per hour zones and also help local communities
00:51 get rid of LTNs, that's low traffic neighbourhoods, which have proved hugely controversial across
00:57 London, although in many neighbourhoods they're actually quite popular.
01:01 In relation to the U.S. you're going to stop charging motorists on day one.
01:05 Yes.
01:06 But your manifesto makes clear there will have to be a sort of consultation or legal
01:10 process to actually get rid of it, so you're not completely getting rid of U.S. on day
01:14 one are you?
01:15 Yes, people won't be charged from there. Whatever technicalities I have to go through, I will
01:19 go through and TfL will deliver me no more charging for U.S. expansion after I've been
01:25 with the Mayor for a day. I've got to wait until I sign the documents or I don't have
01:29 the authority. Then I will keep my promise. U.S. will be gone.
01:33 What happens if Londoners say, "Can we keep it please?"
01:36 No, they're saying loud and clear they do not want the U.S. expansion and quite frankly
01:41 my whole campaign has been around that and policing and the other things, but if I get
01:46 elected in, please God, in 10 days time, then that's a massive mandate to remove the U.S.
01:52 expansion.
01:53 On the subject of fares freeze, obviously Sadiq's got a partial fares freeze just now.
01:58 Forgive me, but I didn't notice anything in the manifest about what you'd do in terms
02:02 of Tube and bus fares. What's your thinking on that?
02:05 Well, at the moment, the Tube's partial fare freeze, it's not the full thing that he was
02:11 going on about. It's in the budget, so I will maintain that.
02:15 So you'd continue the partial fares freeze for one more year, four years?
02:20 To the end of this financial year. I've said so all along.
02:23 The big question though is will Londoners actually give Susan Hall a chance to sort
02:27 of get her hands dirty, get under the bonnet and fix these problems?
02:32 Well, as it stands just now, looking at the polls, Sadiq Khan, her Labour rival, is still
02:37 in the driving seat.
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