Susan Mary Hall is a British

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politician who has been a

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(AM) for Londonwide since 2017. She has been the leader of the

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on the Assembly since December 2019.

Political career

Hall was elected as a Councillor on

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for Hatch End Ward in the 2006 local elections. She was given a Cabinet position responsible for the Environment and Community Safety in 2007 and became Deputy Leader of the 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 returning to opposition Leader in 2014. She was appointed to the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority in June 2010. At the

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, Hall was number 4 on the

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. She was not elected. She inherited the 4th Additional Member seat on the London Assembly in June 2017 following

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's resignation, as a result of Badenoch's election as MP for

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. In 2018, Hall became deputy leader of the

. After

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was elected to the

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in the 2019 general election, Hall succeeded him as the leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly. Hall is a community safety advocate who campaigns for

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. She has called for an increase in police funding in order to tackle

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. Hall is a critic of

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. In March 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic in London, Hall wrote a letter to Mayor Khan, asking him to “call in the police” to “enforce the coronavirus lockdown” in order to protect

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workers. Following the storming of the United States Capitol by supporters of

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in January 2021, Hall compared the riot to other British politicians'

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. She was re-elected in the

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Electoral history

2021 London Assembly election

2016 London Assembly election

References

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Susan Hall
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