Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall has pledged to appoint a women’s commissioner if she is elected in May.
The Tory hopeful said she wanted to see more done to protect women’s safety in the capital, three years on from the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
The Tory hopeful said she wanted to see more done to protect women’s safety in the capital, three years on from the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
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00:00 Well, Londoners know their experience of the Conservatives. They know that the last Conservative
00:05 mayor cut the policing budget by more than 28%, both the real terms cuts and the cash
00:10 term cuts. Londoners know the experience of a national Conservative government is a cut
00:15 in the Met Police budget by 32%, more than a billion pounds taken from London's policing.
00:20 Why should this Conservative be any different? We also know that this Conservative has voted
00:25 against many of our policies that have supported London's communities, for example, voted against
00:31 the budget that gave £163 million to address the issue of violence against women and girls,
00:36 voted against my budgets that have doubled the investment in the policing from City Hall,
00:41 so it's now more than £1.148 billion, voted against some of our policies like the independent
00:47 Victims Commission has done a brilliant job over the last eight years. So, Londoners know
00:53 you know, lepers don't change their spots and Tories don't change theirs either.