0:00:00 > 0:00:01a long way back for England. Thanks very much.
0:00:01 > 0:00:10That's all
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Good evening.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16Should the capital be given a special Brexit deal?
0:00:16 > 0:00:19It was prompted by a tweet today from the mayor gently reminding
0:00:19 > 0:00:23the Prime Minister that any deal to keep part of the UK in the single
0:00:23 > 0:00:27market should be extended to London to protect thousands of jobs.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30He said.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41He made the comments while on a trade visit to India.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Here's our Brexit reporter Katherine Carpenter.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48It was the Romans who first built the great Wall around the city to
0:00:48 > 0:00:51protect its prosperity and trade.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Today, London's Mayor hinted at partitioning off the capital once
0:00:53 > 0:00:58more, with a special Brexit deal, similar to the one being thrashed
0:00:58 > 0:01:02out for Northern Ireland.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04The government has accepted a principal
0:01:04 > 0:01:07today that part of the country should have part of the single
0:01:07 > 0:01:10market.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12If it's good enough for Northern Ireland,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15bearing in mind this will protect tens of thousands of jobs in London,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17bearing in mind London is crucial to the government's well-being
0:01:17 > 0:01:20economically and otherwise, the government should give us
0:01:20 > 0:01:24the same deal as well.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28His comments were welcomed by some at this garage on Seven Sisters Rd.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Being in the single market means goods, services and people can move
0:01:30 > 0:01:32around freely.
0:01:32 > 0:01:42The owner here says leaving means costs will go up.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47I believe it will be hard for us, going to be hassle.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50As a business runner, we will be affected quite a lot if
0:01:50 > 0:01:51we leave the single market.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53If we stayed, it will be better.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55But his friend around the corner was one of
0:01:55 > 0:01:57the 40% of Londoners who voted leave.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00He says he will feel cheated if the mayor has his way.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02I don't see how it will work.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04How can you segregate London from the rest of
0:02:04 > 0:02:09the country?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11It's a view shared by other pro-Brexit supporters, who
0:02:11 > 0:02:19question the practicalities as well.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22We decided in 2016, in a referendum with a huge vote,
0:02:22 > 0:02:23to leave the European Union.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Secondly, it's fraught with practical difficulties.
0:02:25 > 0:02:26Where is the boundary going to be?
0:02:26 > 0:02:34Who will be in, who will be out? It's not workable.
0:02:34 > 0:02:44This is an opportunity for the mayor, who have
0:02:44 > 0:02:47called many times for more devolved powers to support London through
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Brexit.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51If it can be done for Northern Ireland, which is part of
0:02:51 > 0:02:54the United Kingdom, it makes it more difficult for the government to say
0:02:54 > 0:02:57it can be done for one part of the United Kingdom, and not another,
0:02:57 > 0:02:59remembering that London, Northern Ireland and Scotland
0:02:59 > 0:03:02voted to stay in the EU, while the UK as a whole
0:03:02 > 0:03:05voted to leave.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09There's still no agreement on the Irish border.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12The Prime Minister has a lot more on her mind than London,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15but the city has a lot on its mind regarding the future,
0:03:15 > 0:03:17and frustration is growing.
0:03:17 > 0:03:18Victoria Hollins has got more on this.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Put this into context for us.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25What I think this suggests is that the mayor believes the Government
0:03:25 > 0:03:29doesn't have a strong hand at the moment in Brexit negotiations. The
0:03:29 > 0:03:33mayor of course and others have argued that London should have a
0:03:33 > 0:03:37special case post-Brexit, not least in relation to immigration. Some
0:03:37 > 0:03:40people would argue what's happening today strengthens that position. Now
0:03:40 > 0:03:44he of course joins the leaders of Scotland and Wales who are arguing
0:03:44 > 0:03:47that if Northern Ireland is made a special case then so should they.
0:03:47 > 0:03:53But what needs to be made very clear here is that this regulatory
0:03:53 > 0:03:54alignment being discussed, apparently discussed at the moment
0:03:54 > 0:03:59is not the same as customs union and a free market. There is an important
0:03:59 > 0:04:04difference here. Some people would argue the mayor is jumping the gun
0:04:04 > 0:04:08somewhat. On the other side of that they may say it's an astute time to
0:04:08 > 0:04:18make this sort of comment. Thank you.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Also on the agenda on the mayor's trade visit to India and Pakistan
0:04:21 > 0:04:23is the issue of student visas.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Sadiq Khan blamed the Prime Minister for making it difficult for Indian
0:04:26 > 0:04:28nationals to come to London to work and study.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Our political correspondent Karl Mercer reports.
0:04:29 > 0:04:35Of course the mayor wasn't staying at this hotel, nor eating at this
0:04:35 > 0:04:38restaurant, but tucked off a main road into Mumbai, these two pay
0:04:38 > 0:04:41testament to a city that thrives on trade, deals and making money,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44something that the mayor is keen to tap into.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47So there is a mantra from Sadiq Khan on this trip.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Everywhere he's been, he has said that London
0:04:50 > 0:04:54is open, but apparently not as open as he wants it to be.
0:04:54 > 0:05:00London is open for business.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03His contradictions may need a bit more practice.
0:05:03 > 0:05:11The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
0:05:11 > 0:05:18Shall we have a round of applause? Vp
0:05:18 > 0:05:20What will not is the message he came to deliver
0:05:20 > 0:05:21he came to deliver
0:05:21 > 0:05:22on student visas.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, got it badly
0:05:24 > 0:05:30wrong with her decision to close this route a few years ago.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32A rule change five years ago meant that
0:05:32 > 0:05:35these two students, who wanted to go to London universities, had to stay
0:05:35 > 0:05:42in Mumbai.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44We wanted to come to London and work of the economy and
0:05:45 > 0:05:46see how it was.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48But they stopped it because of the immigration issues,
0:05:48 > 0:05:57or whatever, and we were not allowed visas.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Five years ago, on his trip to India as mayor, Boris Johnson tried
0:06:00 > 0:06:02to stop those changes as well.
0:06:02 > 0:06:10If Theresa May wouldn't listen to Boris Johnson then,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14why would she listen to what you are saying now?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17The reason why she should listen to us now is that the fear
0:06:17 > 0:06:20is that we have have been realised, it's not simply that scaremongering
0:06:20 > 0:06:23that changes around student visas will lead to fewer students coming.
0:06:23 > 0:06:33That has happened.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36If Theresa May wants to make Brexit a success,
0:06:36 > 0:06:42if she wants to make sure businesses continued to flourish and strive,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44we need to have access to talented people from around
0:06:44 > 0:06:45the world, including India.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49It's in her interests to change the rules.
0:06:49 > 0:06:59He wants students like these to be able to stay
0:07:01 > 0:07:02after their studies and work here.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05The numbers of Indian students coming to the capital has fallen 40%
0:07:05 > 0:07:06in the last four years.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Historically and culturally, we are connected to the UK
0:07:08 > 0:07:10and especially London, which is why I chose
0:07:10 > 0:07:18London to study.
0:07:18 > 0:07:31For employment UK at the moment might not The Best.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36In more sombre mood, Sadiq Khan paid his respects
0:07:36 > 0:07:38at a memorial to those who were murdered here
0:07:38 > 0:07:40by terrorists nine years ago, when they attacked the luxury hotel
0:07:40 > 0:07:44where the mayor spent his night.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Google, Bloomberg and Apple have all announced plans
0:07:46 > 0:07:48to grow their business bases in the capital.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Now tech giant Facebook has opened its biggest engineering hub
0:07:50 > 0:07:53outside the US creating hundreds of new jobs in London.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58Tarah Welsh reports.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03It's one of the fastest-growing companies in the world and has
0:08:03 > 0:08:0439 million users in the UK.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07That means more than half of us have a Facebook account.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10No wonder it's got something to sing about at its new offices in central
0:08:10 > 0:08:12London, entertainers, dancers and even the Chancellor
0:08:12 > 0:08:14came along to celebrate, reassured that even in uncertain
0:08:14 > 0:08:24times, such a big company wants to expand here.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Really excited about the fact we are going to be looking for more
0:08:28 > 0:08:29people to be coming here.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32We hope a lot of those people will be UK grown people
0:08:32 > 0:08:36because London in particular is a fantastic tech hub.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The company is hiring another 800 people in London
0:08:39 > 0:08:44so by the end of next year, there will be 2300 people working
0:08:44 > 0:08:46here, making this their biggest engineering base outside the US.
0:08:46 > 0:08:55It's also opening a centre to help start-ups but some say this
0:08:55 > 0:09:00expansion has knock-on effects for the industry.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04meaning in 2014, it paid just over £4,000 in tax.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Many people were outraged about the tax setup of Facebook.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08What would you say to them now?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Yeah, well, we make sure that we comply with all of the tax
0:09:11 > 0:09:14laws within all of the areas that we operate.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16You might have seen that last year, we moved our revenues
0:09:16 > 0:09:20that we receive from our large scale clients in the UK into our UK office
0:09:20 > 0:09:22and that is now recognised and taxed at the right level
0:09:22 > 0:09:27of corporations for profitability.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30While so many of us use it, it is likely to grow,
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Tarah Welsh, BBC London News.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35I'll wish you a very good night and leave you with Lucy Martin who's
0:09:35 > 0:09:36got the weather for us.
0:09:36 > 0:09:36got the weather for us.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42Good evening. A settled start to the week this week with plenty of cloud
0:09:42 > 0:09:45around and quite mild temperatures to begin with before we see a spell
0:09:45 > 0:09:49of wet and windy weather Wednesday into Thursday and then things
0:09:49 > 0:09:52turning colder but with more brightness. Tonight then a fairly
0:09:52 > 0:09:56cloudy story. Cloud could be thick enough for a few spots of rain and
0:09:56 > 0:10:00where we see breaks in the cloud potential for a few patches of mist
0:10:00 > 0:10:04and fog to develop. Overnight lows of five or six. Tomorrow mainly
0:10:04 > 0:10:09cloudy day. Some brighter intervals or breaks in the cloud at times.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Temperatures again just creeping into the double figures, a maximum
0:10:13 > 0:10:18of ten degrees. Into Wednesday, we will start to see winds spinning to
0:10:18 > 0:10:21a south-westerly direction so again largely cloudy and the cloud thick
0:10:21 > 0:10:26enough to produce light rain and drizzle. Temperatures at a maximum
0:10:26 > 0:10:29around 11, perhaps 12. But later on Wednesday into Thursday that we
0:10:29 > 0:10:34start to see this wet and windy weather. Thursday starts off with
0:10:34 > 0:10:38some rain, fairly breezy before we start to see something dryer and
0:10:38 > 0:10:42brighter feeding in behind it. Also means that Thursday we could see
0:10:42 > 0:10:46temperatures reaching 14 in the morning. By the time we get to rush
0:10:46 > 0:10:51hour something a bit colder feeding in. That will stay with us into
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Friday, largely dry and bright but temperatures back down in single
0:10:54 > 0:10:58figures. That's how we stay into the weekend, plenty of sunshine around
0:10:58 > 0:11:02but feeling very cold. And it will be breezy as well. That's it from
0:11:02 > 0:11:03me.