asking of him, you will take a different course? what were you proposing they are exactly? in crisis it is important there is one message being given to citizens, otherwise that can lead to confusion. my frustration at the lack of clarity from the government s messaging, don t use public transport, but go to work, and so forth, was leading to confusion. the point i was trying to get across was, if it was the case, i knew this from a conversation i had had on thursday, if it is the case you yourself for a variety of reasons don t want to have a stricter message, i will say to londoners, you know, do certain things to save your lives. as we have explored, it would not have been open to you to order a mandatory lockdown itself. what you are describing is, departing from the government s messaging, you would be seeing something different to the governments, you would be encouraging londoners to do more by way of staying at home and so on, than the national gamut was telling them.
if we look at the bottom of the page, there is an e mail dated the 8th of march, which is a sunday, again from someone in your office to claire brunton, a request to attend the cobra that was going to happen the cobra that was going to happen the next monday. a very similar request, can the mayor come to the cobra, given the recent impact? this time, we can see that the same response is received, if we can go up response is received, if we can go up to the top of that page, there is a response on the monday morning at 950 am. no they may isn t required for the pm has asked for a separate meeting with cabinet ministers. let s just look at a separate set of internal e mails, to show how that decision was reached. if we look at the next item, we see the same e mailfrom your member the next item, we see the same e mail from your member of staff. and then if we look up the page, claire brunton says that she assumes the answer is no again. and then we see the e mailfrom the answer