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Susan Hall
AM
Leader of the Conservative Party in the London Assembly
In office
17 December 2019 – 2 May 2023
Preceded byGareth Bacon
Succeeded byNeil Garratt
Member of the London Assembly
Assumed office
20 June 2017
Leader of the Harrow London Borough Council
In office
16 September 2013 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byThaya Idaikkadar
Succeeded byDavid Perry
Leader of the Conservative Party in the Harrow London Borough Council
In office
May 2010 – August 2017
DeputyBarry Macleod-Cullinane
Preceded byDavid Ashton
Succeeded byPaul Osborn
Personal details
Political partyConservative

Susan Mary Hall is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of the London Assembly (AM) since 2017. She was the leader of the London Conservatives on the Assembly from December 2019 until May 2023. She is the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election.

Early life

Hall is from Harrow, London, where she worked as a mechanic in her father's garage.[1] It is said that she knows how to 'strip down an engine'.[2] She married a hairdresser and opened a hairdressing salon with him. At one time the salon employed about 20 people.[2]

Political career

Hall was elected as a councillor on Harrow London Borough Council for Hatch End ward in the 2006 local elections.[3] She was given a cabinet position, responsible for the Environment and Community Safety in 2007, and became Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group in 2008. Hall became Leader of the Conservative group in 2010 and Leader of the Opposition. She took over as Leader of the hung Council in 2013, before returning as opposition Leader in 2014. She was appointed to the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority as a borough nominee in June 2010,[4] switching to an assembly nominee in 2017.[5]

In 2014, she tweeted that TOWIE star Gemma Collins, in a short appearance on ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, was fat and ghastly.[6] She also called Collins, via Twitter, a "stupid fat blonde woman".[6] When asked about this tweet by ITV News, Hall told them that she 'meant it'; she said that she was a victim of a campaign by the Fire Brigades Union, and that 'it was a sad state of affairs when a person doesn't have the luxury of being able to say what they think because of political correctness or fear of trial by Twitter jury'.[7] Hall has said that Twitter is her hobby.[2][8]

At the 2016 London Assembly election, Hall was number 4 on the Conservative Party list, but was not elected.[9][10]

She inherited the 4th Additional Member seat on the London Assembly in June 2017, following Kemi Badenoch's resignation on being elected as MP for Saffron Walden.[11][12][13][14]

In 2018, Hall became deputy leader of the London Conservatives.[15]

After Gareth Bacon was elected to the House of Commons in the 2019 general election, Hall succeeded him as the leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly.[16]

Hall advocates for community safety and campaigns for crime prevention. She called for an increase in police funding to tackle knife crime.[17]

In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in London, Hall wrote a letter to Mayor Sadiq Khan, asking him to "call in the police" to "enforce the coronavirus lockdown" in order to protect National Health Service workers.[18]

Following the storming of the United States Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in January 2021, Hall compared the riot to other British politicians' opposition to Brexit.[19] Hall also tweeted 'Come on Donald Trump - make sure you win and wipe the smile of this man's face' alongside a picture of her rival for Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.[20]

She was re-elected in the 2021 London Assembly election.[21] Hall was replaced as leader of the Conservative group in May 2023.[22]

On 19 July 2023, she was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election.[23][24]

On 19 July 2023 Tory Party Deputy Chairman Nickie Aiken accused the Evening Standard of 'misogyny' with their choice of photo of Hall for their front page. In a letter to the Evening Standard's editor Dylan Jones, Aiken said 'Your choice of photo of Susan Hall is a clear mockery, and it is contemptible - especially as the first female candidate for London mayor from either of the two main parties'.[25]

Electoral history

2021 London Assembly election

2021 London Assembly election (London-wide)[26]
List Candidates Votes % ±
Labour Elly Baker (98,661), Sakina Sheikh (89,692),
Murad Qureshi (82,217), Emine Ibrahim, Faduma Hassan, Sophie Charman-Blower, Bob Littlewood, Miriam Mirwitch, Shahina Jaffer, Taranjit Chana, James Beckles 		986,609 38.1% Decrease2.2%
Conservative Shaun Bailey† (132,514), Andrew Boff (113,583), Susan Hall (99,385), Emma Best (88,342),
Selina Seesunkur (79,508), Toby Williams, Ahmereen Reza, Timothy Briggs, Simon Hoar, John Riley, Julian Gallant, George Currie 		795,081 30.7% Increase1.5%
Green Siân Berry† (305,452), Caroline Russell (152,726), Zack Polanski (101,817),
Benali Hamdache (76,363), Shahrar Ali, Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, Ben Fletcher, Hannah Graham, Peter Underwood, Kirsten De Keyser, Jarelle Francis 		305,452 11.8% Increase3.8%
Liberal Democrats Caroline Pidgeon (189,522), Hina Bokhari (94,761),
Robert Blackie (63,174), Chris Maines, Joyce Onstad, Irina von Wiese, Hussain Khan, Michael Bukola, Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Adetokunbo Fatukasi, Charley Hasted 		189,522 7.3% Increase1.0%
Women's Equality Harini Iyengar, Jacueline Dean, Tabitha Morton, Rebecca Manson-Jones, Nikki Uppal, Pamela Ritchie, Leila Fazal, Sarabajaya Kumar, Guilene Marcor, Sellisha Lockyer, Korina Holmes, Maureen Obi-Ezekpazu, Georgina Ladbury 55,684 2.2% Decrease1.3%
Rejoin EU Richard Hewison†, Deborah Iliffe, Charlotte Blake, John Stevens, Brendan Donnelly, Rory Fitzgerald, Benrd Rendic, Philipp Gnatzy, Karol Bobal, Raj Kumar, Javern Pond 49,389 1.9% New
Animal Welfare Vanessa Hudson†, Sam Morland, Alex Bourke, Femy Amin, Mark Scott, Julian Weisman 44,667 1.7% Increase0.7%
CPA Maureen Maud Marin, Helen Spiby-Vann, Ashley Keith Dickenson, Carol Valinejad, Eunice Oruyinka Ade Odesanmi, Katherine Susan Hortense, Desmond Coke, Donald Akhigbe 28,878 1.1% Increase0.1%
UKIP Peter Gammons†, Elizabeth Jones, Julie Carter, Stuart Freeman, Marjan Keqaj, Kakala Nyembwe, Ziz Kakoulakis, Geoffrey Courtenay, Anil Bhatti, Amir Latif, Simon Harman 27,114 1.0% Decrease5.5%
Reform UK Richard Tice, David Bull, Robert Poll, Dominique Day, Michael Pastor, Saradhi Rajan, Ian Price, Edward Apostolides, Mark Simpson, Michael Anthony, John Cronin 25,009 1.0% New
London Real Party Brian Rose†, Paul Frost, Kim Murray, Julian Bailes 18,395 0.7% New
Let London Live Piers Corbyn†, Heiko Khoo, Sylvia Da Barca, Julia Stephenson, Renos Samson 15,755 0.6% New
Heritage David Kurten†, Sean Finch, Lewis Glyn, Zachary Stiling, Barbara Ray, Dominic Stockford 13,534 0.5% New
TUSC Nancy Taaffe, April Ashley, Lewis Baker, Deji Olayinka, Andrew Walker, Thea Everett, Lawanya Ramajayam, Jack Jeffery, Marvin Hay, Len Hockey, Lois Austin, Bob Law, Ferdy Lyons, Rachel Lyon, Naomi Bryan, Pete Mason, Angharad Hillier, Hugo Pierre, Brian Debus, Mira Glavardanov, Niall Mulholland, John Viner, Wally Kennedy, Paul Kershaw, Paul Scott 9,004 0.3% New
Communist Robin Talbot, Judith Cazorla Rodenas, Philip Wedgwood Brand, Akira Allman, Lorraine Douglas, Stewart McGill, Lucian Branescu-Mihaila, Anita Halpin, Hannah Sawtwell 8,787 0.3% New
SDP Eric Siva-Jothy, Stephen Gardner, Matthew Beresford, Simon Marshall, Brilant Krasniqi, Seth Liebowitz, Tricia Bracher, Rosamund Hubley 7,782 0.3% New
Londependence Bella Roberts, Tom Foster, Daniel Jacobs, John Halnan 5,746 0.2% New
National Liberal Upkar Rai, Arunasalam Rajalingam, Faisal Maramazi, Araz Yurdseven, Ponniah Yogaraja 2,860 0.1% New

2016 London Assembly election

2016 London Assembly election[27][28][29]
List Candidates Votes % ±
Labour Fiona Twycross (105,480), Tom Copley (95,891), Nicky Gavron (87,900),
Murad Qureshi (81,139), Alison Moore, Preston Tabois, Feryal Demirci, Mike Katz, Emily Brothers, Bevan Powell, Sara Hyde 		1,054,801 40.3% –0.8%
Conservative Kemi Badenoch (127,372), Andrew Boff (109,176), Shaun Bailey (95,529),
Susan Hall (84,914), Amandeep Bhogal, Joanne Laban, Antonia Cox, Joy Morrissey, Timothy Barnes, Gregory Stafford, Kishan Devani, Jonathan Cope 		764,230 29.2% –2.8%
Green Siân Berry (207,959), Caroline Russell (103,980),
Shahrar Ali (69,320), Jonathan Bartley, Noel Lynch, Rashid Nix, Dee Searle, Benali Hamdache, Andrea Carey Fuller, Anne RoseMary Warrington, Peter Underwood 		207,959 8.0% –0.6%
UKIP Peter Whittle (171,069), David Kurten (85,535),
Lawrence Webb (57,023), Peter Harris, Neville Watson, Piers Wauchope, Afzal Akram, Elizabeth Jones, Tariq Saeed, Freddy Vachha, Peter Staveley 		171,069 6.5% +2.0%
Liberal Democrats Caroline Pidgeon (165,580),
Emily Davey (82,790), Merlene Emerson, Robert Blackie, Zack Polanski, Dawn Barnes, Annabel Mullin, Marisha Ray, Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Pauline Pearce, Benjamin Mathis 		165,580 6.3% –0.5%
Women's Equality Sophie Walker, Harini Iyengar, Jacquelyn Guderley, Alison Marshall, Rebecca Manson Jones, Anila Dhami, Isabelle Parasram, Chris Paouros, Joanna Shaw, Kate Massey-Chase, Melanie Howard 91,772[30] 3.5% N/A
Respect George Galloway, Akib Mahmood, Mikail Rayne, Clare McCaughey, Rehiana Ali, Terry Hoy, Simon Virgo, Saurav Dutt, Tehmeena Mahmood, Karina Lockhart 41,324 1.6% N/A
Britain First Jayda Fransen, Paul Golding, Christine Smith, Anne Elstone, Nancy Smith, Hollie Rouse, Peggy Saunders, Donna King, Kevan McMullen, Steven Connor 39,071 1.5% N/A
CPA Malcolm Martin, Maureen Martin, Yemi Awolola, Helen Spiby-Vann, Ray Towey, Damilola Adewuyi, Kathy Mils, Kayode Shedono, Des Coke, Ashley Dickenson, Stephen Hammond, Kevin Nichols 27,172 1.0% –0.8%
Animal Welfare Vanessa Hudson, Jonathan Homan, Alexander Bourke, Linda Seddon, Zsanett Csontos 25,810 1.0% N/A
BNP David Furness, Paul Sturdy, John Clarke, Michael Jones, Peter Finch, Nicola Finch, Denise Underwood, Stephen Dillon, Philip Dalton, Gareth Jones, Beb Smith 15,833 0.6% –1.5%
The House Party Terry McGrenera 11,055 0.4% +0.1%

References

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  2. ^ a b c Vickers, Noah (19 July 2023). "Who is Susan Hall? London mayoral hopeful's policies explained". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
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  6. ^ a b Croft, Ethan (13 June 2023). "Tory who called Gemma Collins 'stupid fat blonde' could be new London Mayor". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
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  30. ^ While this is more votes than the last allocated list position, WEP were denied a seat because they failed to reach the 5% threshold https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20voting%20systems_2.pdf

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Hall&oldid=1166478594

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