Liverpool cuts producing Labour split
On 2 March six Liverpool Labour councillors were suspended from the Labour Party for refusing to vote for the Labour council’s proposed budget. They are opposing the cuts that are being proposed by the Labour party at the behest of the Tory appointed commissioners; they are doing so following several years of corruption allegations and investigations; and they are also opposing the attacks on democracy in the Labour Party that have been seen since Starmer’s election as leader. The sequence of events is: Joe Anderson, who was Labour Mayor of Liverpool from 2012 to 2021, was arrested as part of...