A cabinet minister was among senior Tories who pushed for Reform UK’s Howard Cox to be their candidate for London mayor instead of the beleaguered Susan Hall, The Independent understands.
A source close to the prime minister’s inner circle has claimed they wrote to Rishi Sunak pleading with him to select the rightwing motorist campaigner Mr Cox ahead of the decision by London party members to nominate Susan Hall.
The claims come as Ms Hall’s former deputy leader in Harrow Council, Barry Macleod-Cullinane, endorsed Labour’s Sadiq Khan as a Savanta poll put him 10 points in front of his Conservative rival ahead of today’s polls in the capital.
The source said: “Howard has worked with [the minister] and other [Conservative] MPs for many years on the Fair Fuel UK campaign and he is a great campaigner. [The minister] thought he would make an excellent candidate for London mayor and told the PM but was ignored.”
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