Does Sadiq Khan have a woman problem?

Nominations for the Tory mayoral race closed last week, with a final shortlist of two or three expected to be published a week on Sunday. So far nine candidates have declared their interest in taking on Sadiq Khan, with Paul Scully, the Minister for London, the early favourite. But Mr S wonders if the real juicy match up could be between Susan Hall, Khan’s longtime bête noire during her six years of service on the Greater London Assembly.

Hall, who quit her role as head of the GLA Tories to run for Mayor is certainly not shy of a fight, as shown by a typically punchy article she penned last week for ConservativeHome:

Khan does not want me to be your candidate. When I bumped into him in a lift at City Hall, he could not bear to look at me or speak to me – I ended up chatting to his personal protection officers instead.