The Latest Breaking News from Susan Hall

The Uxbridge byelection victory should have bolstered the Tory campaign – instead, it’s triggered a battle over green policy, says the Spectator’s Katy Balls

His new friend Keir Starmer wasn’t in attendance

Conservative members have chosen Susan Hall as the party’s candidate to try to unseat Sadiq Khan in the 2024 London mayoral election.

The party wrote to the newspaper’s editor to express its disapproval at the picture of Susan Hall used on its front page.

The Prime Minister’s press secretary said Susan Hall has shown ‘great commitment… highlighting the many failures of Sadiq Khan’.

Iain Dale was approached to run for the mayoralty three times - but doesn’t even live in London

At last, the Tories have produced their candidate for next year’s mayoral election. Susan Hall is the woman. She is not, even in London, a household name. She has undoubted local government experience, being until recently head of the City Hall Conservatives, but what is striking about this contest was…

Ms Hall said she will do ‘whatever it takes to win’ the contest against Sadiq Khan.

Labour brands Susan Hall ‘hard-right’ politician who hates London’s diversity