Who is Susan Hall? The hair salon proprietor and London mayor hopeful who says Sadiq Khan ‘fears her most’

Susan Hall is operating for London mayor on a platform of security and “fears”. 

Her tagline is “Safer with Susan” and she or he calls herself “the candidate Sadiq Khan fears the most”.

As a member of the London Assembly for 5 years, she is not any stranger to City Hall and has commonly confronted off in opposition to the present London mayor at Mayor’s Question Time.

She has pitched herself as “the only candidate with the strength and the experience to take Sadiq Khan on and beat him”.

Sky News appears at her political profession and campaigning priorities as she makes a bid to return to City Hall.

Party: Conservative
Campaigning priorities: Reverse the ULEZ enlargement, crack down on crime
Notable achievements: Leader of the London Conservatives on the London Assembly from 2019 till May 2023

Hair salon proprietor who wished to be a mechanic

Ms Hall is from Harrow in northwest London, the place she owns a hair salon and raised her household.

She has stated she initially wished to be a mechanic and labored in her father’s storage after ending college, however struggled to get into technical faculty as a lady.

She was elected to Harrow Council in 2006 and went on to guide the council from 2013 to 2014.

London Assembly

Ms Hall has been a member of the London Assembly since 2017, changing now cupboard minister Kemi Badenoch after her election to parliament.

The London Assembly is a part of the Greater London Authority and is made up of 25 elected people who scrutinise the actions of the mayor and examine problems with significance to Londoners.

She turned deputy chief for the London Assembly Conservatives in 2018 and served as chief from 2019 to 2023.

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Campaigning priorities

Tackling crime, the housing disaster and ULEZ are all excessive on Ms Hall’s record of priorities, detailed on her marketing campaign web site.

She stated she’s going to “hunt down and lock up” muggers and burglars by making a particular workforce throughout the Met tasked with tackling them.

She promised to cease the ULEZ enlargement on day one, “no ifs, no buts”.

Ms Hall additionally stated she’s going to deal with the housing disaster by “building a lot more homes in the right places”.

Her phrases on being shortlisted

Ms Hall stated she was “honoured” to have progressed to the shortlist of potential Tory mayoral candidates for London.

“I am the candidate Sadiq Khan fears the most, because I will expose him, defeat him and clean up the mess he has left behind,” she stated.

The Tory mayoral candidate for London is anticipated to be introduced on 19 July, with the London mayoral election happening on 2 May 2024.