Tory hoping to become London mayor ‘has £515,000,000 funding black hole’
The Conservative candidate hoping to unseat Sadiq Khan as London mayor has a £515million black hole in her manifesto plans, Labour claims.
Susan Hall is set to unveil her full manifesto imminently as she goes up against the Labour incumbent to become mayor of England’s capital city.
It’s been claimed that her plans, accused of coming ‘straight from the Liz Truss playbook – have a huge ‘black hole’ of more than £500million.
But the Conservatives say Susan’s plans are fully costed and call Labour’s accusations ‘desperate’.
Jonathan Ashworth MP, Shadow Paymaster General, said: ‘There has never been a starker choice at a London Mayoral election – between Sadiq’s costed plans to build a fairer, safer and greener London for everyone, or the Tory candidate’s unfunded commitments.
‘Susan Hall’s pledges are straight from the Liz Truss playbook – reckless, irresponsible and uncosted.
‘With a black hole of more than £500million in her spending plans, it will be Londoners who would pay the price, with huge cuts to their services or hikes in council tax and transport fares.
‘Londoners can’t afford this latest version of Trussonomics to be implemented in the capital.
‘Susan Hall’s proposals are the most irresponsible set of plans from any major party candidate in the history of the mayoralty.’
A spokesperson for Susan Hall’s mayoral campaign said: ‘This is desperate stuff from Sadiq Khan’s campaign.
‘Susan’s commitments are fully costed and accounted for, much of which will be covered by cutting the ridiculous amount of waste in City Hall and TfL.
‘By contrast, Sadiq Khan’s manifesto has around a billion pounds worth of pledges, with no explanation at all as to how he is going to pay for them, and which could only be paid for by cutting police funding and bringing in pay-per-mile.’