LABOUR was accused today of scrapping its Liverpool mayoral shortlist because one of the candidates was considered “the wrong type of black woman by influential people in the Labour Party hierarchy.”
In a hard-hitting statement, the Labour Black Socialists group said that the inclusion of leftwinger Anna Rothery on the shortlist of three local women had prompted the party’s decision to bin the shortlist and impose a new one — at the same time banning the three original potential candidates from standing.
The group said that it was “extremely disappointed with the way the outcome of the Liverpool mayoral selection process has been handled.”