Susan Hall’s campaign to become Mayor of London last year brought attention to her history of liking and reposting far-Right social media output. However, neither this nor her comfortable defeat by Sir Sadiq Khan have prevented her Conservative colleagues on the London Assembly from making her their leader or persuaded Hall herself to stop endorsing the views and propaganda of radical and extreme far-Right politicians and online activists.
In recent days, Hall has used her X account (formerly Twitter) to repost a letter from Rupert Lowe MP to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in which he asks her why she has “assembled a national police unit to monitor so-called “anti-migrant sentiment”‘. The letter appears to refer to a group of officers giving close attention to gathering information from social media about potential violence of the type seen last summer outside hotels where asylum-seekers were being accommodated.
The words “anti-migrant sentiment” have not been used by the Home Office in relation to the move, nor by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which reportedly said the measure was to enable the swift mobilisation of resources in response to reports of serious disorder. They did, however, appear at the start of an article about the initiative in the Standard newspaper.
Hall has repeatedly expressed enthusiasm for Lowe, who was elected as a member of Reform UK but now sits as an Independent having been suspended by the party. He has since set up the organisation Restore Britain, which describes itself as “a movement for those who believe we need to fundamentally change the way Britain is governed”. Hall, who is former chair and current deputy chair of the Assembly’s police and crime committee, characterises herself as a strong supporter of the police.
The right-wing Tory has also reposted an unfounded claim by far-Right media figure Dan Wootton that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile”, a serial sexual abuser, when he led the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 until 2013.
The same claim was made by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons in February 2022. It had already been discredited, but has continued to be repeated by right-wing conspiracy theorists despite the lawyer representing victims of Savile saying Johnson’s allegation was “fundamentally baseless”. Hall was an enthusiastic supporter of Johnson when he was Prime Minister.
In recent days, Hall has repeated her praise for US President Donald Trump, including by agreeing with his insulting remarks during his visit to Scotland about Sir Sadiq Khan.
Trump has a criminal record for falsifying business accounts and been found by a civil court to have sexually abused a woman and defamed her.
In addition, Hall has described on X as “abhorrent” a video clip posted by an extremist X feed called “UK Justice Forum” which it claims shows “migrants caught with a duck they had caught in a London park”. The indoor footage is disturbing but provides no indication that the bird – which appears to actually be a goose – had been taken from a London park or whether the people in it, though seemingly foreign, were migrants.
This week, the UK Justice Forum feed has reposted information from the neo-fascist Britain First party about a “march for remigration” apparently planned for Manchester, and claimed that far-Right activist Tommy Robinson, aged 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was the “subject of an assault” at St Pancras. Police say they wish to question a 42-year-old male in connection with an incident at the station, which left another man seriously injured. The male in question has left the country.
The London Assembly Conservative group has been approached for comment about Hall’s X activity.
Update, 30 July, 2025. the London Assembly Tories have not yet responded to me request for a comment.
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