Susan Hall

{{about|the British politician|the American artist|Susan Hall (artist)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Susan Hall

| honorific-prefix = Cllr

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|AMl}}

| image = Susan Hall 2023.png

| caption = Hall in 2023

| office = Leader of the Conservative Party
in the London Assembly

| term_start = 17 December 2019

| term_end = 2 May 2023

| predecessor = Gareth Bacon

| successor = Neil Garratt

| office1 = Member of the London Assembly
for Londonwide

| term_start1 = 20 June 2017

| term_end1 =

| predecessor1 = Kemi Badenoch

| successor1 =

| office2 = Leader of the Harrow Council

| term_start2 = 16 September 2013

| term_end2 = 22 May 2014

| predecessor2 = Thaya Idaikkadar

| successor2 = David Perry

| office3 = Leader of the Conservative group
in the Harrow Council

| deputy3 = Barry Macleod-Cullinane

| term_start3 = 6 May 2010

| term_end3 = 31 August 2017

| predecessor3 = David Ashton

| successor3 = Paul Osborn

| office4 = Member of the Harrow Council
for Hatch End

| term_start4 = 4 May 2006

| term_end4 =

| predecessor4 = Mary John

| successor4 =

| birth_name = Susan Mary Cole

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1955|3}}

| birth_place = Willesden, Middlesex, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| education = Roxeth Manor Secondary Modern School

| spouse = {{marriage|Gerald Peter Hall|1977|end = divorced}}

| children = 2

| party = Conservative

| signature = Susan Hall signature.png

| website = {{Official website|susan.london|name=Susan Hall for Mayor of London}}

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Susan Mary Hall (née Cole; born March 1955) is a British politician who has served as a Member of the London Assembly since 2017 and a councillor on Harrow London Borough Council since 2006. She was leader of the London Conservatives in the London Assembly from December 2019 until May 2023. Hall was the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election, finishing in second place behind incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan.

Early life and business career

Susan Mary Cole was born in March 1955 at Willesden, Middlesex (since 1965 in Greater London). She is the elder daughter of Benjamin Cole (1912–72)[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=cole www.nationalarchives.gov.uk] and Mary née Palmer (1926–99). In her late teens she gained practical work experience as a car mechanic in a garage owned by her father, where she learnt how to 'strip down an engine'.{{Cite news |title=Who is Susan Hall? The hair salon owner and London mayor hopeful who says Sadiq Khan 'fears her most' | first=Josephine | last=Franks | url=https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-susan-hall-the-hair-salon-owner-and-london-mayor-hopeful-who-says-sadiq-khan-fears-her-most-12900878 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614153610/https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-susan-hall-the-hair-salon-owner-and-london-mayor-hopeful-who-says-sadiq-khan-fears-her-most-12900878| archive-date=14 June 2023 |date= 14 June 2023 |access-date=15 June 2023 |website=Sky News |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Vickers |first=Noah |date=2023-07-19 |title=Who is Susan Hall? London mayoral hopeful’s policies explained |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/who-susan-hall-conservative-candidate-london-mayor-2024-sadiq-khan-b1093034.html |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}

Political career

=Harrow London Borough Council=

Hall was elected as a councillor for Hatch End ward on Harrow London Borough Council in the 2006 election, after previously standing unsuccessfully for Headstone South in 2002.{{Cite web |date= |title=Councillor Susan Hall |url=https://moderngov.harrow.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=580 |access-date=6 October 2023 |website=Harrow London Borough Council |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Election results for Headstone South: Borough Election - Thursday 2 May 2002 |url=https://moderngov.harrow.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=67 |website=Harrow London Borough Council |access-date=6 October 2023}} She has been re-elected as a councillor at subsequent elections in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022. In 2007, she was appointed to Harrow Council's cabinet, responsible for the environment and community safety. Hall became deputy leader of the Conservative group on Harrow Council in 2008. She was then elected in 2010 as Leader of the group, becoming Leader of the Opposition. She was appointed to the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority as a Borough nominee in June 2010.{{cite web |title=Statement of accounts 2017/2018 |url=https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/media/5129/statement-of-accounts-2017-18-post-audit-signed.pdf |publisher=London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority |access-date=20 July 2023}}

Hall took over as the leader of Harrow's hung council in September 2013.{{Cite news |date=2013-09-18 |title=Tories get control of Harrow Council after Labour split |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-24141717 |access-date=2023-09-15}}{{Cite news |last=Thain |first=Bruce |date=16 September 2013 |title=Conservative Councillor Susan Hall becomes leader of Harrow Borough Council |url=https://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/10678530.conservative-councillor-susan-hall-becomes-leader-of-harrow-borough-council/ |access-date=15 September 2023 |website=Harrow Times |language=en}} As council leader, Hall commissioned thermal imaging cameras to stop illegal 'beds in sheds' developments and identify five cannabis farms.{{Cite web |last=Shammas |first=John |date=2014-03-20 |title=Gotcha! Council leader on a high after spy plane roots out drug farms as well as beds in sheds |url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/gotcha-council-leader-susan-hall-6856007 |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=My London |language=en}} Hall returned to Opposition leader after the May 2014 election.{{Cite news |last=Shammas |first=John |date=2014-05-27 |title="Justice has been done"! Labour celebrate retaking power at Harrow Council |language=en |website=MyLondon |url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/justice-been-done-labour-celebrate-7176168 |access-date=2023-09-15}}{{Cite news |last=Proctor |first=Ian |date=2014-06-10 |title=Unveiled: Harrow Council's new power-wielding cabinet committee |language=en |website=MyLondon |url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/unveiled-harrow-councils-new-cabinet-7244552 |access-date=2023-09-15}} Also 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 and a "stupid fat blonde woman".{{Cite news |last=Croft |first=Ethan |date=2023-06-13 |title=Tory who called Gemma Collins ‘stupid fat blonde’ could be new London Mayor |language=en |website=Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/tory-councillor-susan-hall-called-gemma-collins-stupid-fat-blonde-new-london-mayor-b1087438.html |access-date=2023-07-19}} Hall subsequently told ITV News "I meant it and would say it to her face" and said she was a victim of a campaign by the Fire Brigades Union.{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Simon |date=19 November 2014 |title=Senior Conservative who called TOWIE star Gemma Collins fat and ghastly says, 'I meant it and would say it to her face'. |url=https://www.itv.com/news/london/2014-11-19/senior-conservative-councillor-who-described-towie-star-gemma-collins-as-fat-and-ghastly-says-i-meant-it |website=ITV X | access-date=7 October 2023}}

=London Assembly=

Hall became a Member of the London Assembly in June 2017, replacing Kemi Badenoch {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=small|AMl}} who stood down upon being elected as MP for Saffron Walden.{{Cite web |date=2017-06-20|title=New Assembly Member, Susan Hall, takes her place at City Hall|url=https://www.london.gov.uk//press-releases/assembly/new-assembly-member-susan-hall|access-date=27 September 2020|website=Greater London Authority|language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |date=8 May 2017|title=Harrow Tory leader set to join London Assembly following General Election|url=https://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/harrow-tory-leader-set-to-join-london-assembly-following-general-election/|access-date=27 September 2020|website=MayorWatch|first=Martin|last=Hoscik|language=en-GB}} Hall was the fourth London-wide candidate on the Conservative Party list at the 2016 London Assembly election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/who-vote/london-wide-assembly-member-candidates|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812091858/https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/who-vote/london-wide-assembly-member-candidates|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 August 2016|title=London-wide Assembly Member candidates 2016| website= London Elects|date=12 August 2016|access-date=23 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2016|title=Results 2016 |website=London Elects|access-date=23 December 2019}} Hall was elected deputy leader of the London Conservatives in 2018,{{cite web |title=Susan Hall |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-members/susan-hall |website=Greater London Authority |access-date=19 July 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719113749/https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-members/susan-hall | archive-date=19 July 2023 }} before succeeding Gareth Bacon as Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly,{{Cite news |url=https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/18107250.new-mps-quit-london-assembly-next-years-election/|title=New London MPs will step down from City Hall roles in May| first=Jessie |last=Mathewson|website=East London and West Essex Guardian Series|language=en|access-date=23 December 2019}} after he was elected as MP for Orpington in the December 2019 general election. In March 2020, regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in London, Hall wrote to Mayor Sadiq Khan, asking him to "call in the police" to "enforce the coronavirus lockdown" in order to protect National Health Service workers.{{Cite news |last=Boscia |first=Stefan |date=24 March 2020 |title=Coronavirus: Tube could shut amid overcrowding, union warns |url=https://www.cityam.com/coronavirus-tube-could-shut-amid-overcrowding-union-warns/ |access-date=27 March 2020 |website=CityAM |language=en-GB}}

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Hall tweeted "Come on Donald Trump - make sure you win and wipe the smile off this man's face", referring to Sadiq Khan, who is a vocal critic of Trump.{{Cite news |last=Huskisson |first=Sophie |date=2023-07-19 |title=Tories go to war over unflattering photograph of London mayoral candidate |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-go-war-over-unflattering-30506273 |access-date=2023-07-20 |work=The Mirror |language=en}} Following the storming of the United States Capitol by Trump's supporters in January 2021, Hall compared the cause of the riot with remaining opposition to Brexit in the UK.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/07/tories-urged-to-suspend-politicians-who-likened-us-violence-capitol-donald-trump-to-anti-brexit-protests|title=Tories urged to suspend politicians who likened US violence to anti-Brexit protests|date=January 7, 2021|accessdate=January 11, 2021|work=The Guardian|first=Peter|last=Walker}} Re-elected in the 2021 London Assembly election,{{Cite news |date=8 May 2021|title=Election 2021: Full results for London Mayor and London Assembly|url=https://www.itv.com/news/london/2021-05-07/election-2021-timings-and-results-for-london-mayor-and-assembly|access-date=10 May 2021|website=ITV News|language=en}} Hall stood down as leader of the London Conservatives in May 2023.{{cite news |last1=Vickers |first1=Noah |title=Conservatives choose new City Hall leader |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/city-hall-conservatives-neil-garratt-new-group-leader-susan-hall-sadiq-khan-b1078283.html |website=Evening Standard |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=2 May 2023}} Hall was re-elected to the London Assembly as a London-wide member at the 2024 election.

=London mayoral candidacy=

Hall was selected, on 19 July 2023, as the Conservative Party candidate for the 2024 London mayoral election.{{cite news | last=Walker | first=Peter | title=Susan Hall chosen as Conservative candidate for London mayor |work=The Guardian | date=19 July 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/19/susan-hall-chosen-as-conservative-candidate-for-london-mayor |access-date=19 July 2023}}{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Grant |date=12 June 2023 |title=Harrow councillor shortlisted to be Conservative candidate for Mayor of London |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/meet-harrow-councillor-shortlisted-conservative-27104844 |access-date=19 July 2023 |website=MyLondon |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=19 July 2023 |title=Susan Hall wins Tory race to face-off against Sadiq Khan for London mayoralty |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/susan-hall-tory-conservative-candidate-sadiq-khan-london-mayoralty-b1095333.html |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}} Her campaign slogan was "Safer with Susan".

To tackle crime, Hall said she would invest £200 million in the Metropolitan Police, funded by reducing staff costs at Transport for London. She would establish police units specialising in attending to burglaries, robberies and thefts.{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Susan |date=2023-06-10 |title=Sadiq Khan has failed to lead the police – I have a plan to fit it |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/10/my-plan-to-save-the-met-from-sadiq-khans-disastrous-rule/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Susan |title=I will invest £200 million in the Met Police, funded by cutting waste in City Hall and TfL. In Khan’s London, the vulnerable fear the police and criminals don’t. If I am your candidate, I will get him out of office and fix this injustice. #SaferWithSusan |url=https://twitter.com/Councillorsuzie/status/1669349164642340868 |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}} Hall pledged to reverse the 2023 ULEZ outer expansion and in its place set up a £50 million fund to "tackle air pollution hotspots."{{Cite news |last=Hazell |first=Will |date=2023-07-01 |title=Susan Hall pledges £50m clean air project if she becomes London mayor |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/01/susan-hall-clean-air-project-becomes-london-mayor/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |issn=0307-1235}} She supported Londoners having the choice to send non-compliant ULEZ cars and particularly 4x4s to Ukraine in support of the war effort.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=James |title=London's Ulez-scrapped cars cannot go to Ukraine, Sadiq Khan says |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67737663 |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=BBC News |date=16 December 2023}}

On 19 July 2023, the Conservative Party deputy chairman Nickie Aiken MP wrote to the Evening Standard's editor Dylan Jones accusing the paper of "misogyny" with their choice of photo of Hall for their front page, describing it as "a clear mockery". In August 2023, Dawn Butler and nine other Labour MPs wrote to Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands criticising Hall's comments that the Notting Hill Carnival was "dangerous" and put local residents through "hell." The letter accused Hall of implying that the Black community "has a propensity towards violence and disorder."{{Cite news |last=Vickers |first=Noah |date=26 August 2023|title=Susan Hall 'convinced of innate criminality of Black people', Labour MPs allege in searing letter |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/susan-hall-notting-hill-carnival-black-people-tory-conservative-london-mayor-candidate-b1103064.html |archive-date=28 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828154414/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/susan-hall-notting-hill-carnival-black-people-tory-conservative-london-mayor-candidate-b1103064.html |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}} Hall's team said that the allegations were "desperate smears and a complete mischaracterisation" of her comments.{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Zoe |date=28 August 2023 |title=Hate London and all it stands for? You’re not alone – but you’re in terrible company |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/28/hate-london-and-all-it-stands-for-youre-not-alone-but-youre-in-terrible-company |access-date=23 August 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/22/tory-london-mayor-candidate-criticised-notting-hill-carnival | title=Tory London mayor candidate criticised for ‘offensive’ Notting Hill carnival views | work=The Guardian | first=Rowena | last=Mason | date=22 August 2023 | access-date=6 October 2023 }}

In September 2023, Hall was reported to have liked tweets that praised Enoch Powell and described London's Mayor Sadiq Khan as "our nipple height mayor of Londonistan". Hall's spokesman said "Susan engages with many people on Twitter without endorsing their views".{{Cite news |last=Spirit |first=Lara |date=15 September 2023 |title=Susan Hall: Tory mayoral candidate liked tweet praising Enoch Powell |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/susan-hall-tory-mayoral-candidate-liked-tweet-praising-enoch-powell-zqsr6lvfk |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 September 2023 |issn=0140-0460}} In October 2023, Hall received criticism from political opponents and Jewish groups for saying "I know how frightened some of the [Jewish] community is because of the divisive attitude of Sadiq Khan".{{cite news |last1=Salisbury |first1=Josh |last2=Burford |first2=Rachael |title=Susan Hall: Tory mayoral candidate criticised for suggesting Jewish people 'frightened' by Sadiq Khan |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/susan-hall-sadiq-khan-jewish-labour-conservative-party-conference-b1110925.html |access-date=3 October 2023 |work=Evening Standard |date=3 October 2023}} Nusrat Ghani, Minister of State for Industry, criticised Hall for using the "language of fear and demeaning our political opponents", to which Hall replied her comments were "misinterpreted".{{cite news |last1=Burford |first1=Rachael |title=Government minister criticises Tory Mayoral candidate Susan Hall over Jewish comments|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/conservative-london-mayor-susan-hall-nusrat-ghani-sadiq-khan-b1111224.html |access-date=5 October 2023 |work=Evening Standard |date=4 October 2023}} Hall’s campaign drew controversy in March 2024 for using images of panicking people in New York.{{Cite news |last=Ferguson |first=Donna |date=2024-03-25 |title=Tories delete Sadiq Khan attack ad showing New York instead of London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/25/tories-sadiq-khan-attack-ad-new-york-london |access-date=2024-04-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Hall advocated for tourist tax-free shopping in London working. Writing to Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2023 she pointed to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research which found that were refunds restored then for every £1 refunded in sales tax to foreign tourists the Exchequer would gain £1.56 in other taxes due to the "dynamic economic effects" of tourist expenditure. She said that this would amount "to an increase in GDP of £10.7bn in 2023" and help support more than 200,000 jobs.{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=2023-12-14 |title=Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall urges Jeremy Hunt to scrap 'tourist tax' for London|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/susan-hall-tourist-tax-london-jeremy-hunt-b1126891.html |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}

Hall finished in second place, behind incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan.{{cite news |last1=Lydall |first1=Ross |last2=Vickers |first2=Noah |title=Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/sadiq-khan-london-mayoral-election-result-sadiq-khan-votes-city-hall-b1155727.html |access-date=6 May 2024 |work=Evening Standard |date=4 May 2024 |language=en}} After the election, Conservative Party figures blamed {{Cite web |date=2024-05-05 |title=London election: Negative Tory campaign lost mayoral race, ex-minister says |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p7dj1890o |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}the "negative" campaign run by Hall as being partly behind the loss. Greg Hands, then a Conservative MP, said there was not a "knockout candidate" selected, with one campaigner telling the Evening Standard{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=2024-05-13 |title=Revealed: How the Tories blew the London mayoral election |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-mayoral-election-what-went-wrong-susan-hall-conservatives-sadiq-khan-victory-b1156913.html |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=The Standard |language=en}} that Hall "was the worst candidate ever, worse than Shaun Bailey.”

Political positions

Harry Phibbs, writing in The Sunday Telegraph in September 2023, described Hall as an "authentic, unapologetic Conservative".{{cite news |last1=Phibbs |first1=Harry |title=Susan Hall can win - but she can't do it alone |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/10/susan-hall-can-win-but-she-cant-do-it-alone |access-date=4 October 2023 |work=The Sunday Telegraph |date=10 September 2023}}[https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-members/susan-hall www.london.gov.uk] Hall advocates for community safety and campaigns for crime prevention, calling for an increase in police funding in 2019 to tackle knife crime.{{Cite news | first=Amy | last=Walker |url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/18/london-underground-violent-crime-rmt-tfl|title=Violent crime rises by 43% in three years on London Underground|date=18 January 2019|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=27 March 2020}} As a candidate for London Mayor, Hall pledged to invest £200 million into the Metropolitan Police. Claiming in November 2023 her wallet was pickpocketed on the London Underground, she asserted crime was "completely out of control" in London,{{cite news |last1=Heren |first1=Kit |title=Tory London mayoral candidate Susan Hall rages against Sadiq Khan after 'pickpocketing ordeal on Tube' |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/susan-hall-pickpocketed-on-tube/ |access-date=30 November 2023 |work=LBC |date=28 November 2023}} but the wallet was returned by another passenger who suggested that Hall had dropped it rather than it being stolen.{{cite news |last1=Lydall |first1=Ross |title=Good Samaritan: How I returned Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall's lost wallet |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/susan-hall-lost-oyster-card-tube-tory-mayoral-good-samaritan-b1123916.html |access-date=30 November 2023 |work=Evening Standard |date=30 November 2023}}

Hall opposed the 2023 outer expansion of ULEZ, a congestion pricing program in Greater London, vowing to scrap the expansion if elected mayor.{{Cite news |date=2024-03-25 |title=London mayoral election: Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall vows to end ULEZ |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68639277 |language=en-GB}} She also calls for the removal of low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), which impose restrictions on cars. Hall has been described as a populist.{{Cite news | first=Sean | last=O'Grady | date=19 July 2023 |title=Could this populist Brexiteer Trump fan really become Mayor of London? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/politics-explained/susan-hall-london-major-candidate-brexit-trump-sadiq-khan-b2378402.html |access-date=15 September 2023 |website=The Independent |language=en}} In her London mayoral campaign, Hall said she would reduce costs at Transport for London by reforming bonuses, pension arrangements and the provision of nominee passes, which enable Londoners who live with TfL staff to travel free. Sadiq Khan has defended these, arguing that no net savings would be made by scrapping them.{{cite news | url=https://www.onlondon.co.uk/who-is-london-tory-susan-hall-and-why-is-she-so-cross-with-sadiq-khan/ | first=Joshua | last=Neicho | title=Who is London Tory Susan Hall and why is she so cross with Sadiq Khan? | date=14 April 2021 |work=On London}}

Hall said that if elected mayor, she would pivot away from building more apartment blocks in London, arguing that tower blocks are "not where you could raise a family".{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Dave |date=2024-04-01 |title=Tory Susan Hall's London tower block crusade 'could stop 12,000 homes being built' |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-susan-halls-london-tower-32484400 |website=The Mirror |language=en}}

In August 2023, Hall tweeted support for Restore Trust, a political advocacy group which seeks to change policies of the National Trust.{{Cite news |last=Mortimer |first=Josiah |date=2023-08-30 |title=Conservative London Mayoral Candidate Susan Hall Backs Fringe Right Wing 'Restore Trust' that Challenges Criticism of Empire|url=https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/30/conservative-london-mayoral-candidate-susan-hall-backs-fringe-right-wing-restore-trust-that-challenges-criticism-of-empire/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=Byline Times |language=en-GB}}

Personal life

In 1977, she married Gerald Peter Hall, a hairdresser, with whom she has two children; the couple are now divorced. They established a beauty salon in Harrow, which grew to employ over 20 people before closing. Her daughter, Louise Staite,{{Cite web |date=2019-12-02 |title='Let’s get Brexit done and focus on what matters' says Oxford East Conservative candidate |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18070412.general-election-2019-oxford-east-conservative-candidate-louise-staite/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Oxford Mail |language=en}} stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Oxford East at the 2019 general election, but failed to gain the Labour-held seat.{{cite news |last1=Hazell |first1=Will |title=Tory candidate for London Mayor Susan Hall: ‘Only I can beat Sadiq Khan’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/19/susan-hall-interview-conservative-london-mayor-candidate/ |access-date=6 October 2023 |work=The Telegraph |date=19 July 2023}}

References

External links

[https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-members/susan-hall Susan Hall] at the London Assembly
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/s/su-sz/susan-hall/ Susan Hall] at The Daily Telegraph
[https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/susan-hall Susan Hall] at The Evening Standard

Category:Living people

Category:1955 births

Category:People from Harrow, London

Category:Politicians from the London Borough of Harrow

Category:British Anglicans

Category:21st-century British women politicians

Category:Conservative Members of the London Assembly

Category:Conservative Party (UK) councillors

Category:Councillors in the London Borough of Harrow

Category:Anti-crime activists

Category:UK councillors 2006–2010

Category:UK councillors 2010–2014