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"I praise the government for bringing it in. Please don't take it away." Housing association Peabody's Chief Exec Brendan Sarsfield on the government's £20 a week Universal Credit boost. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3dTOIZE

"He has told an untruth... this is a man who has a very scant understanding of the figures." Public Accounts Committee Chair Meg Hillier MP responds to the Prime Minister accusing the Mayor of bankrupting TfL before COVID-19. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2TlWMsD #

"Nothing is ever Sadiq Khan's fault. Everything is somebody else's issue to worry about." Leader of the London Assembly Conservatives Susan Hall on the ongoing row between the Mayor and the Prime Minister. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2TqeJq1

"Society needs to remember this: we must look after those who can't look after themselves financially." Conservative London Assembly Member Susan Hall personally would like to see a continuation of the £20-a-week Universal Credit boost. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2Tq9yGS

"When it was introduced, Iain Duncan Smith resigned because of the cuts to it... it's really bringing it back to where it ought to be." Labour MP Meg Hiller on the £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit. #politicslondon | bbc.in/31FjC3e

"This cultural offer will be vital when tourists come back." Our guests agree on the importance of the government's bailout for the arts in London. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3mpB5V1

"They shouldn't even be there if that's how deep the problem is!" Chair of the Lib Dem Campaign for Race Equality, Roderick Lynch, on policing and racial bias in London. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3kLBjpa

"It's a commercially sensitive agreement... it's been leaked today, this morning, by the Mayor." Minister for London Paul Scully on the Transport for London bailout news this morning. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3kNrK9m

"This has come too late but we've got to get it right this time." Labour MP Fleur Anderson on the government's decision to introduce a second national lockdown. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2TFUODB

"We were really hesitant about having to press this button...we knew it was going to be really tough on small businesses." Small businesses minister and Minister for London Paul Scully on the second national lockdown. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2TFUODB

"That's not the party I joined, a party the Jewish community felt they could not join." Labour MP for Putney Fleur Anderson on the EHRC report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3kNrK9m

Did you know much of London’s “public” space like the Southbank (most of) and the Olympic Park are actually privately owned? Each have their own rules which are rarely published. A common rule is no picnics, another is no filming- as I find out for this week’s Politics London

Talking lockdown, Croydon council, privately-owned public space and the Mayor at 20 with Samantha Simmonds: Andrew Rosindell MP Siobhain McDonagh MP Georgia Gould, Chair of London Councils Tony Travers, LSE 📺Sunday 15 Nov, 10am, BBC 1📺 📱 Tweet using #politicslondon 📱

"Dominic Cummings' departure will not change the policy on Brexit." Prominent Brexiteer Andrew Rosindell MP says despite speculation the government's path on Brexit remains the same following personnel change in No. 10. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3eZwZR4

"It's going to make the conditions outside people's homes, the things we all notice, that bit worse." LSE's Tony Travers on what Croydon Council's Section 114 notice could mean for residents. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3f2Zw8E

"My plea for government is to see the investment in a new generation of council housing as a way of restarting the economy." Chair of London Councils, Georgia Gould on tackling the housing crisis and fostering economic growth. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3f2aafD

"I do not want to see Londoners in cars, unable to get into intensive care units, on oxygen." Mitcham & Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh responds to calls for lockdown to be eased. #politicslondon | bbc.in/2IGOhGS

"We're subsidising the Mayor and his grandstanding." "I think it's going to be a great opportunity." While Andrew Rosindell MP argues for the abolition of the Mayor of London, Siobhain McDonagh MP welcomes the move to the Crystal. #politicslondon | bbc.in/3nqDy25

"You can't allow everything to be open freely without certain rules." As a Mayoral consultation on privately-owned public space continues, our guests discuss the impact of these areas on local government finance and civil liberties. #politicslondon | bbc.in/38M0Z1Y