Susan Hall has twice been the Standard’s cover star this year as she aims to unseat Sadiq Khan

THE Conservative Party got terribly upset in July when Susan Hall waved her arms around in a photo shoot marking the start of her mayoral election campaign and the Evening Standard used a picture of her doing just that.

Their complaints of a mean-spirited photo editor somewhere picking the worst angle and a view that such treatment would not have happened to a man might make a fair point about how the media works.

But perhaps it’s a little hard to take from people who revelled in every snap chosen to make Jeremy Corbyn look cranky during his time as the leader of the Labour Party.

Have you ever thought Corbyn just looks like that, was what his supporters were told. Please don’t say any­thing similar to Ms Hall.

The furore led Nickie Aiken, the Two Cities MP, to write a letter of complaint to the Standard which was shared with us all and said: “I cannot imagine that CCHQ [Conserva­tive Campaign HQ] will be willing to provide such overtures to your paper in the future, which is disappointing as they were hoping to have a good working relationship with you over the course of the long mayoral campaign.”

There was even some backstage talk of a boycott.

And yet just a few months later, such “overtures” do not seem to have been abandoned and the Standard has got the exclusive interview which, we must assume, they all wanted.

The phone can hardly have stopped ringing with people pleading for this scoop, but it’s the Standard who were the lucky chosen ones.

So this week, with the wavy arm picture all a distant memory, Ms Hall appeared on the front page again with a headline she might have written herself if she had the choice: “I can beat Khan.”

Let’s see how that one pans out.