Tories rule out new race to pick mayoral candidate

I'VE HAD ENOUGH, SAYS LONDON MINISTER AFTER KORSKI EXIT

- Ross Lydall

TORY chairman Greg Hands has vowed not to reopen the race to select the party's London mayoral candidate, the Standard has learned.

Mr Hands gave the personal assurance at a hustings meeting in Kensington and Chelsea last night after Dan Korski's withdrawal left just Susan Hall and Moz Hossain battling for the right to take on Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan in next May's City Hall elections.

Mr Korski quit yesterday afternoon, saying a "false and unproven" allegation that he groped TV producer Daisy Goodwin in Downing Street a decade ago had made it impossible to carry on. The Tory party announced last night that the selection race would not be restarted, a decision that Az Chowdhury, the campaign manager for minister for London Paul Scully - who failed to make the shortlist described as "unconscionable".