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Chris, should we play a little thought experiment with newscast listeners?

Oh, yeah.

What is the first thing, newscast listener, that pops into your mind when I say the word, London?

It's a big word, isn't it?

Hang on, you need to give them some time to think.

Oh, sorry. I'm just jumping in. I haven't really got... Well, it's that thing that, you know, no, because it can be quite loaded. So I remember, you know, growing up in Yorkshire, there'd be that sense of, yes, it's the capital city and there's that sense of the smoke, but is there the sense that London does better than everywhere else or people forever talk about it and forget about other parts of the country,

which might be a risk for us on this episode.

And if you live in London, you're never far from a conversation about people's phone being stolen.

Whether it's happened to you or not or your friends or not, everyone does talk about it as a thing.

So there's a sort of crime meme at the moment.

And also us as political journalists, like you know you're never far from

Donald Trump, basically slagging off Sidy Khan, the mayor. And then you're also aware, I'm always

also aware, whatever people's views about London, either people living in London or beyond,

that London is a world city that happens to be the UK's capital, isn't it? So it's sort of

outsized within a country of 60

odd, 70 million people, like a conurbation of whatever it is 10 million roughly. It's sort of

outsized. It has a global significance that is arguably greater than the country that happens to be

the capital of, without wanting for a second talk down the country of which we are proud, we are proud citizens.

Right, that's enough time for you to think what you think about London.

And the reason we're talking about our capital city is because Chris and I have been invited to City Hall in East London for a big, long, wide-ranging, as they say, in the journalists, chat with the mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan. So that's what you'll hear on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel the lulu with no salulu. Take me down the Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Mr. Mayor, hello. Good to be back. Also, this is the first time we've been in, I call it your new office, but you have been here for three years now, haven't you?

Well, newscast on the road. Good to see. Good to see. Yeah, it's like a field trip for us.

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