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.
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
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course