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Leading Britain's conversation, speak to Sadiq.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, takes your calls.

Good morning.

Three minutes after ten is the time, and I am Robin today, not Batman, for at least the first sort of 30 or 40 minutes of the

program I am I'm a mere sidekick the mayor of London's Sadiq Khan joins us for the first time in a while

do you know why that is have you been if you've been fighting shy have been hiding from scrutiny

if only I'm trying to get a costume as good as yours bear in mind that I'm Batman and you're

Robin it's great to be back and looking forward to speaking to Londoners and those trying to get a costume as good as yours. Bear in mind that I'm Batman and you're Robin.

It's great to be back and looking forward to speaking to Londoners and those across the country who may want to ring in and speak to Sadiq. There is a heck of a lot going on. I don't think you need to be Nostradamus to predict that you're going to be answering quite a lot of questions about you, Les. But we'll begin if we may. I don't know what you can say about it,

but this footage that's emerged from the school

in Ashford in Surrey of the young black girl being battered by a number of people with the

apparent encouragement of an adult and nothing been done by the teachers.

Can we just talk briefly about that side of it?

Well, I mean, the school safeguarding side of it.

Well, firstly, I've spoken to a number of black people yesterday who were traumatized and triggered by what they saw on social media with this young girl.

It's really is.

I would encourage anybody who's not seeing it to watch.

It really is horrible to watch.

What's clear though is that there were bystanders.

A, not intervening to stop it.

B, apparently encouraging the beating up of this one child by a number of other children, with adults apparently

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