Nickie Aiken: The Conservatives can start winning in London again

While Londoners want action, the Labour Mayor offers excuses. Shaun Bailey will offer a credible challenge.

Bailey is chosen as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London

Boff was the runner up. The election takes place in May 2020.

Who is endorsing whom to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London?

As voting opens all three contenders have secured the backing from high profile figures – including council leaders and cabinet members.

Paul Scully: Conservative members in London still have time to vote for our Mayoral candidate

All three are great campaigners and proven grassroots workers across London. Winning is a challenge but the prize is definitely up for grabs.

Khan is hanging around City Hall, waiting for the Labour leadership to turn up. London can do better.

I’ve already voted for Boff as the Conservative candidate. Sometimes I suspect that he knows even more about the capital than Peter Ackroyd.

Greg Hands: Bailey is the right person to win in 2020 – and turn London blue again

He has the ideas to take the Capital forward. One great example is his plan to put one thousand extra police officers on the streets by cutting waste in City Hall.

Shaun Bailey: Khan has failed on crime, I will show the leadership London deserves

I would put an extra thousand police officers back on the streets by cutting City Hall waste – and I would use new technology to make policing more efficient.

The civil tone of the rival contenders for the Conservative nomination for the Mayor of London is welcome

There has been robust debate, for instance on legalisation of cannabis, but personal bickering has been avoided.

Hustings meetings being held across London for candidates shortlisted to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor

This evening Shaun Bailey, Andrew Boff and Joy Morrissey will be in Croydon. Voting starts on September 17th.

What the London Mayoral selection short-list tells us. And what the successful candidate should do.

No celebrity candidates. No non-Tories. Bailey, Boff and Morrissey have all spent years campaigning, knocking on doors, handing out leaflets in the sun and in the rain.

EXCLUSIVE: The three candidates shortlisted for the Conservative London Mayoral nomination

Congratulations to Shaun Bailey, Andrew Boff and Joy Morrissey. The final choice will be made by Conservative members in London.

EXCLUSIVE: The ten candidates longlisted for the Conservative London Mayoral nomination

The list presents selectors with a wide range of experience and backgrounds to whittle down to the eventual shortlist.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Cllr Julia Dockerill selected for Hornchurch and Upminster

Our commiserations to Simon Jones and Shaun Bailey, the unsuccessful candidates.

Exclusive: Hornchurch and Upminster shortlist

Shaun Bailey AM, Councillor Julia Dockerill, and Simon Jones are in the running to succeed Dame Angela Watkinson.