National Labour Party will take control of candidate selections in Liverpool liverpoolecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liverpoolecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Liverpool council under pressure to rethink Strand and Lime Street plans after cabinet member quits
Calls for major Lime Street and Strand schemes to be paused and reviewed after senior figure quits in protest
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This is how the Lime Street area could look
There are calls for major work that will fundamentally redesign Liverpool City Centre to be paused and rethought after the resignation of a city council cabinet member. Last night, Labour councillor Laura Robertson-Collins, who was appointed as the Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability in 2019 - had quit her post in protest at work to reform the Lime Street area of the city.
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Careerism on the Mersey
James Harvey reports on the manoeuvrings and stitch-ups that have happened in the wake of the arrest of elected mayor Joe Anderson
Following his arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and of witness intimidation, Liverpool’s elected mayor, Joe Anderson, withdrew from the elections scheduled for May this year.
1 The news of the arrest, Anderson’s withdrawal and allegations of corruption threw the city’s Labour councillors into confusion, out of which three possible candidates - current acting mayor Wendy Simon, former deputy mayor Ann O’Byrne and ‘lord mayor’ Anna Rothery - tossed their hats into the ring to be Labour’s mayoral candidate.
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