London Conservatives

London Conservatives
Leader in the London AssemblyNeil Garratt
Deputy Leader in the London AssemblyEmma Best
ChairmanClare Hambro
Deputy chairpersonsPeter Smallwood & Martin Hislop
Founded1946
Preceded byMunicipal Reform Party
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right to right-wing[1][2]
National affiliationConservatives
Colours  Blue
House of Commons (London seats)
9 / 75
London Assembly
8 / 25
Local councillors in London[3]
403 / 1,817
Council control in London[3]
6 / 32
Directly elected Mayoralties in London
1 / 5
Website
City Hall Conservatives
Conservative Party in London

The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.

  1. ^ Saini, Rima; Bankole, Michael; Begum, Neema (April 2023). "The 2022 Conservative Leadership Campaign and Post-racial Gatekeeping". Race & Class: 1–20. doi:10.1177/03063968231164599. ...the Conservative Party's history in incorporating ethnic minorities, and the recent post-racial turn within the party whereby increasing party diversity has coincided with an increasing turn to the Right
  2. ^ Bale, Tim (March 2023). The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation. Cambridge: Polity. pp. 3–8, 291, et passim. ISBN 9781509546015. Retrieved 12 September 2023. [...] rather than the installation of a supposedly more 'technocratic' cabinet halting and even reversing any transformation on the part of the Conservative Party from a mainstream centre-right formation into an ersatz radical right-wing populist outfit, it could just as easily accelerate and accentuate it. Of course, radical right-wing populist parties are about more than migration and, indeed, culture wars more generally. Typically, they also put a premium on charismatic leafership and, if in office, on the rights of the executive over other branches of government and any intermediate institutions. And this is exactly what we have seen from the Conservative Party since 2019
  3. ^ a b "Local Council Political Compositions". Open Council Data UK. Retrieved 19 December 2022.