What Next For London?

Phil Baker is usually London First's interim head of strategic communications but for two weeks earlier this month he was seconded to help set up NHS Nightingale's comms function. Phil shares his experience of this crisis, talks about how it shaped his view of the recovery ahead and ends on the need for someone to invent a much better virtual whiteboard.

Brendan Sarsfield, CEO of Peabody Group, gives his view on some key lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, from tackling pre-existing issues with Universal Credit, to the desperate need to make home ownership a reality for the next generation of Londoners. He sets out some of the choices we must make now if we are to have a strong recovery.

London First's Director of Strategy and Policy, John Dickie, shares his reflections on the initial response to Covid-19 across the capital and what must happen next to set us on the road to recovery.

What has the initial response to Covid-19 highlighted about London's infrastructure, both physical and digital, and how it will need to evolve in the future? The pilot episode of London First's new podcast, What next for London?, asks in-house infrastructure expert Daniel Mahoney to share his thoughts on how the city should to evolve as the result of the current crisis. London has emerged as the initial epicentre of the virus in the UK and had already started to change ways unforeseen ahead of the lockdown. A few weeks in, we start to look at the impact and beyond it, to what must come next. Host Laura Osborne talks to Dan about the potential impact on the demand for digital connectivity, funding for transport infrastructure, what that might mean for the Government's levelling-up agenda and how devolution fits in.