Susan Hall has been selected by Conservative members to become the Conservative party’s mayoral candidate for London.
Ms Hall beat KC Mozammel Hossain, winning 57% of the vote in a ballot of members that ended on Tuesday evening.
Susan, who has been a London assembly member since 2017, will now go up against incumbent Sadiq Khan on 2 May next year.
As part of Hall’s pledges, she has promised to halt the ULEZ expansion on day one if she is elected London mayor before turning her attention to “hunting down and locking up” petty criminals.
As the former leader of the Conservative Group in the London Assembly, Ms Hall has also announced she would invest £200 million in the Met Police to sort out crime, funded by savings at City Hall and TfL – including scrapping nominee passes.
She has also made a Delivery Guarantee promising that all of her commitments are:
- Costed and affordable
- Within the Mayor’s powers
- Realistic and achievable
Speaking to the BBC Ms Hall said she was the right candidate as she had been “holding the mayor to account for years,” adding that as “a hands-on politician for decades” she understood what Londoners wanted.
“I want to make sure that the £9 billion that the mayor receives from the government is spent properly,” Ms Hall said.
Mayor of London and London Assembly Elections take place every four years. The last elections took place in May 2021. The next Mayoral and London Assembly elections will take place on Thursday 2 May 2024.
