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playing Robin to his Batman so reserving the right to throw in supplementaries and even perhaps

to ask a few questions of my own and we'll start with one of those, Siddique if i may uh shortages and what are you hearing

how big a deal is it and what does the light at the end of the tunnel look like it's a big problem

across our city good morning james and good morning to your listeners um not only in relation to what

you've seen in the news today in our shops and supermarkets and supply of food but I'm also concerned about

staff at TFL having to self-isolate because they've been pinged so you saw this weekend

the Met line having to temporarily close we've also had examples of the circle line. Was it just the Met line?

It's also the circle line and yesterday was the Waterloo and City line.

Because control work, people work in the control rooms, those who work in signalling,

who've had both doses are being pinged.

They're doing the right thing following the government guidance.

So we're talking to the government, James, about whether they're able to

extend the exemption scheme. So those key workers across our city, not just in TFL, police, fire,

food supplies. If they've had both jabs and they have a negative test, if they can continue

working, because if they continue to have

these numbers of people being forced to isolate, I worry about a number of essential services.

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