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Chris Davies and Yvonne Nolan protest their removal as a candidates outside Birkenhead Town hall with Branch and Trades Council members
TWO Labour councillors have been banned from standing for re-election to Wirral Council in Merseyside in May’s local elections: one of them for protesting against the other’s ban.
Cllr Yvonne Nolan is disabled and Cllr Chris Davies is her partner and full-time carer.
Mr Davies says he was banned because he failed to attend enough sessions of a Labour Party training programme about campaigning.
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
