Conservative candidate for the London mayoral elections, Susan Hall, is quizzed on her plan to make London net zero. Hall said "I'm a mayor who gets the basics right."
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00:00The mayor's plan really was virtue-sickening because he can't do it without certain things
00:08going through Parliament. It would cost an absolute fortune which he doesn't have.
00:12So it's yet another case of him promising things that he can't deliver.
00:16What are you promising? What deadline would you set for net zero?
00:19I'd be looking to see if we can do it as quickly as possible but we mustn't do it at the expense
00:24of motorists because that's exactly what he's doing.
00:27I mean he talks about EULA's expansion cleaning up the air.
00:32His own impact assessment showed him it would make no difference whatsoever.
00:36So what you will get from me is things that are realistic, things that can be done
00:41without charging the poorest a tax and looking to see how we can all
00:46contribute to it without it absolutely making us all bankrupt quite frankly.
00:51Would you at least look to bring it in faster than the government's 2050 target in London as mayor?
00:57We'll have to look at it and see what we can do. There are very many different things that you can
01:01do and you can use different bodies and charities to help but Sadiq Khan, it's just virtue signals
01:07because he thinks it sounds good. The electrification of the bus fleet,
01:11Sadiq Khan has promised to bring that forward to 2030 I believe from 2034.
01:16It's also something you talk about in the manifesto but you don't set a date on it.
01:19Do you have any idea of whether you'd match Sadiq Khan on that?
01:22Let me get things clear. Things that are in my manifesto I know I can and will absolutely deliver.
01:31Other things that I will deliver will please people but because I'm not 100% certain when I
01:36can deliver them they won't go in there. I want people to start realising if I say I'm going to
01:42do something I will do it because people are sick to death of politicians promising the world.
01:49I'm just asking whether you'd match Sadiq Khan or you'd look to do it.
01:52I don't want to do anything similar to Sadiq Khan because he's been a total disaster.
01:56It could be later then. We won't get electric buses until...
01:59We'll get electric buses as soon as I can afford them because I think they're a good idea but I
02:03don't want to be compared to Sadiq Khan at all because the man doesn't deliver. He peels around
02:10the outskirts and doesn't get the basics right. I will. I'm a mayor that gets the basics right.
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