Susan Hall introduced as Conservative candidate for London mayor

Susan Hall has been chosen because the Conservative candidate for London mayor.

She will face the present mayor, Sadiq Khan, when the following election is held in May 2024.

Ms Hall, who has served on the London Assembly since 2017, gained the race with 57% of the vote, in contrast with 43% for her opponent, Mozammel Hossain.

In an announcement, Ms Hall mentioned it was a “huge honour to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London”.

“I am so grateful to everyone for their support,” she mentioned.

“I would also like to pay tribute to Moz for his positive and hard fought campaign. Over the coming months, I will work tirelessly to defeat Sadiq Khan and offer Londoners the change we need.”

Ms Hall introduced she was is working for London mayor on a platform of security and “fears”, and claimed she was “the candidate Sadiq Khan fears the most”.

Tackling crime, the housing disaster and ULEZ have been all excessive on Ms Hall’s listing of priorities. She additionally pledged to “hunt down and lock up” muggers and burglars by making a particular crew inside the Metropolitan Police.

The Tory contest was a two-horse race between Ms Hall and Mr Hossain after the third candidate, Daniel Korski, give up the race final month after a TV producer accused him of groping her a decade in the past – an allegation he strenuously denies.

At the time, Ms Hall mentioned Mr Korski “fought a hard campaign with lots of fresh ideas” however that the allegations towards him have been “serious and it is right that they are investigated in the proper way”.

A spokesperson for London Labour described Ms Hall as a “hard-right politician who couldn’t be more out of touch with our city and its values”.

“She’s an outspoken supporter of Trump, Boris Johnson and a hard Brexit. She cheered Liz Truss’s mini-budget, which sent mortgages and rents soaring. She doesn’t stand up for women. And she hates London’s diversity.

“Londoners deserve higher than a candidate who represents the worst of the Tory failure and incompetence during the last 13 years.

“The London election next year will be a two-horse race and the choice is clear – a Labour Mayor with a positive vision who will continue to build a fairer, greener and safer London for everyone, or the extreme Tory candidate, who stands for cuts to London’s public services, inequality and division. The Tories have failed the country. They can’t be trusted to run London.”