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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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David Humphreys

Labour deputy leader says Liverpool 'deserves the best' as party launches manifesto

Labour’s deputy leader said nothing less than 100% will be accepted of its candidates in their approach to serving communities as Liverpool gets ready to go to the polls.

The starting gun on this year’s local elections has been fired as Liverpool Labour set out its manifesto for the city-wide poll in a little more than six weeks time. Angela Rayner MP, deputy leader of the Labour Party, joined activists and candidates at the Big Hope Project in Kensington for the launch.

Speaking to the ECHO, Ms Rayner said the people of Liverpool “deserve the best.” She said: “They've been through a lot, 13 years of austerity, billions of pounds taken out of the north, Liverpool has had its services decimated.

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