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OPINION - Even if you hate Ulez, you should be angry that central government tried to block it

George Osborne used to tell the world’s most expensive jokes. At the 2015 Budget, the then-chancellor said £1 million would be spent to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, primarily to land a gag about a Labour-SNP alliance. Further public money was allocated to reducing tolls on…

Evening Standard

Tory London mayor candidate condemned for ‘offensive’ comments about Notting Hill Carnival

Susan Hall branded ‘offensive’ over policy

The Independent UK

Susan Hall: Tory London mayor candidate criticised for ‘offensive’ Notting Hill Carnival tweets

Conservative Mayoral candidate Susan Hall has been criticised as holding “offensive” views on the Notting Hill Carnival, which will return to the capital’s streets this weekend.

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Almost 300,000 pupils in London will get mayor’s free school meals

City Hall says that thanks to the policy, families will save ‘upwards of £440 per child’

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Tory London mayor candidate criticised for ‘offensive’ Notting Hill carnival views

Susan Hall described the celebration of Caribbean culture as ‘dangerous’ and said there were ‘problems with crime’ in the black community

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Sadiq Khan has lost the suburbs – it probably doesn’t matter

Meet the next Mayor of Outer London: Susan Hall. While Sadiq Khan languishes with a net favourability of -24 in the suburban boroughs, the Tory candidate enjoys a score of +4. That is landslide territory.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Inner or outer? Support for Sadiq Khan depends on where you live in London

London leans Labour. Even in 2019, burdened by Brexit fatigue and the calamitous leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, the party secured 49 of the capital’s 73 seats. But when it comes to mayoral contests, it is very much a tale of two cities.

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Sadiq Khan’s popularity languishing in outer London a week before Ulez expansion

Mayor is viewed unfavourably by 52% of voters as he expands £12.50-a-day Ulez charge – but his Tory rival remains an ‘unknown figure’ to most Londoners

Evening Standard

OPINION - Investigation into Tories’ London election strategy: The Leader podcast

There is fresh turmoil among London’s Conservatives as the party launches a probe into its electoral operations in the capital.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Politicians generally don’t launch inquiries into triumphs

Generally speaking, politicians don’t launch inquiries into triumphs. In some ways, this is a missed opportunity. As Norman Fowler, a former Conservative health secretary and Lord Speaker once told me (regarding the government comms response to the HIV/Aids pandemic), “there’s nothing that says you can’t have an inquiry into a…

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Fresh Tory Party turmoil over London mayoral shambles

Probe into London Conservatives reignites City Hall selection row

Evening Standard

Tories launch review of local London operation

The review comes after Susan Hall was selected as the Conservative candidate to face Sadiq Khan at the next mayoral election.

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan opens Ulez scrappage scheme to all Londoners in £50m boost

The Labour mayor has come under significant pressure from within his own party in recent weeks over the Ulez expansion

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak has resolved to fight dirty. But will his opponent be Labour or his own MPs?

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

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Stormzy’s 30th birthday party: Chinese food, a priceless watch and a new car

His new friend Keir Starmer wasn’t in attendance

The Week

Next London mayor: the odds, the polls, the candidates

The race to become the next mayor of London has become significantly closer after Labour’s shock by-election defeat in Uxbridge put incumbent Sadiq Khan’s flagship green policy in doubt.

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Lake Onslow and the politics of power

As the Government ponders future electricity-generation options, National nixes a pumped-hydro plan that could be the country’s one-stop energy shop.

The Week

Quiz of The Week: 15 July - 21 July

It’s been a topsy-turvy week for politics, with three big by-elections and a few controversial pledges. Although Labour stormed to victory in Selby and Ainsty, leader Keir Starmer found himself on the ropes when he promised to maintain a deeply unpopular two-child benefit cap policy.

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London’s Tory mayoral candidate is pedalling backwards on cycling policy

Susan Hall’s lack of enthusiasm for active travel reflects a view within the party in sharp contrast with other major European cities

The Week

Susan Hall: the Tory London mayor candidate taking on Sadiq Khan

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

The Independent UK

Tories complain about Standard’s ‘clear mockery’ of their London mayoralty pick

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

The Independent UK

Tory London mayoral candidate Susan Hall ‘has Rishi Sunak’s full support’

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Tory mayoral selection process is a humiliation

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: The Tories have their woman: now go for it

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…

The Independent UK

Susan Hall named as Conservative Party’s London mayoral candidate

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

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