Conservative Mayoral candidate for London chosen.
October 5, 2015
Zac Goldsmith has been chosen as the Conservative Mayoral candidate for London for which the election is due to take place next May, he was up against 3 other candidates MEP Syed Kamall, Stephen Greenhalgh, and Andrew Boff, he won by a comfortable margin, he will be facing Sadiq Khan recently elected candidate for the labour party.
Goldsmith has promised further investment in transport and housing, he reportedly said: “The biggest challenge of all is the housing crisis. Londoners are being priced out of their city and we will need a step change in the number of homes built, and the manner in which they are built.”
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