The defeated Tory mayoral candidate for London has been brutally mocked after suggesting that she had ‘practically’ crushed Labour’s Sadiq Khan.
Corridor misplaced within the mayoral contest to Khan final week, after the Labour mayor secured simply over 1,088,000 votes to be re-elected London Mayor, a majority of some 275,000 over his Conservative rival, who secured just below 813,000 votes.
The margin of Khan’s victory is the most important within the mayoralty’s historical past, if second preferences are discounted.
Reviews had circulated earlier than the end result was introduced that Corridor might trigger an upset with some predicting that the end result ‘can be nearer than thought’.
Nevertheless, the ultimate end result confirmed Khan with a robust margin of victory.
In a video put up on social media after the end result, Corridor thanked her supporters and claimed that she had “so practically” defeated Khan in final week’s election.
She advised her supporters: “To be the mayor of the town I’ve beloved and lived in all my life – the place I went from the storage workshop as a younger lady in a person’s world, to operating a enterprise while elevating a household – would have been great.”
She went on so as to add: “It has been the honour of my life to face as mayor for London, and I’ll always remember what we so practically achieved collectively. Thanks once more, for every thing.”
Reacting to her declare, one social media consumer wrote: “Different actuality is the one factor the Proper have left…”
One other social media consumer added: “That is hilarious.
“Proud’ Susan Corridor says she ‘so practically’ defeated Sadiq Khan regardless of LOSING BY RECORD MARGIN. You don’t have anything to be happy with.”
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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