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THE former London minister took a swipe at Susan Hall’s selection as Conservative mayoral candidate today as he became the latest Tory MP to announce he would quit before the next general election.

- Rachael Burford

Paul Scully, right, conceded he was “disappointed” not to have been chosen as his party’s Mayoral candidate, with gaffe-prone London Assembly member Ms Hall selected to run instead. He added that the perception among Londoners was that his party was “being disrespectful” to the capital and had “lost focus”. The Sutton and C h e a m MP told the Standard : “At the moment we’ve lost focus as a party. The Budget clearly is a moment to try and regain that focus, but if we don’t then there’s a real risk that we just repeat the mistakes of 1997 and start chasing an ideology rather than listening to what people actually want.”