CCHQ to announce Tory candidate for mayor tomorrow morning
Tory assembly members Shaun Bailey and Andrew Boff and councillor Joy Morrissey will know tomorrow whether they have been chosen to face Sadiq khan in the race to be the next mayor of London.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) will announce the successful candidate tomorrow morning at 11am.
Conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis today tweeted his good luck to Bailey, Boff and Morrissey:
Our Mayor Selection process has shown @ShaunBaileyUK @joymorrissey @AndrewBoff all have a positive vision for London, to deliver for Londoners. Best of luck to all 3, any one of them will make an excellent @Conservatives Mayor.
— Brandon Lewis (@BrandonLewis) September 27, 2018
Last week Khan told Morning Wire he hoped the upcoming contest would be a "clean" one.
"I’m really pleased and proud that my party is backing me as their candidate," he said. "All I’d ask for is a clean contest. All I’d ask for is for people not to mention my ethnicity or my religion and to have a campaign that is not divisive. We saw other conservatives in the past run a nasty campaign, I’m hoping this time it’s a clean campaign with a battle of ideas and policies."
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