LIVERPOOL Councillor Anna Rothery has spoken out after she lost a bid in the High Court to force the Labour Party to include her on the city’s mayoral candidate shortlist.

Ms Rothery, the current Lord Mayor of Liverpool, was shortlisted for the role alongside Acting Mayor Wendy Simon and Ann O’Byrne, a former deputy mayor.

At a remote hearing today, Justice Cavanagh refused Ms Rothery’s application for an interim injunction on the basis that the decision to remove her from the shortlist was a “quintessentially political judgment” that the party had the right to make.
 
Ms Rothery said she was disappointed that the court would not examine the evidence and motivations behind the decisions.