Corridor was chosen forward of extra high-profile Tory candidates together with former London Minister Paul Scully. Scully instructed the BBC Saturday his social gathering had run an “extremely underwhelming marketing campaign” within the capital, and accused the Conservatives of focusing too closely on Khan as a person.
Through the marketing campaign, Corridor took intention at Khan over his controversial enlargement of the capital metropolis’s Extremely Low Emission Zone, a cost on drivers in high-polluting automobiles that the Tories efficiently railed towards in a Westminster by-election final yr.
Corridor stated she would scrap the enlargement on “day one.”
Corridor’s candidacy additionally generated controversy after she favored tweets praising the late right-wing politician Enoch Powell and a few containing Islamophobic abuse in the direction of Khan, a working towards Muslim.
Knife crime in London additionally made headlines throughout the marketing campaign, with a lethal sword assault within the London suburb of Hainault dominating the ultimate days of the race.
A spokesperson for Khan stated Sunday that Londoners had “clearly rejected the overwhelmingly unfavourable and divisive marketing campaign run by the Tories.”
Khan, who previously served as a Labour MP and minister, will now be the capital’s longest-serving mayor. In addition to rising crime within the capital, his in-tray for a 3rd time period contains housing affordability and scrutiny of the under-fire Metropolitan Police.
This story has been up to date with additional reporting.
