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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Labour rebels set to break party whip could become Liverpool's official opposition

A growing rebellion of Liverpool Labour councillors could be on their way to becoming the city's official opposition.

The ECHO has been told that six current city Labour councillors will break the party whip and vote against their own group's budget proposals at a crunch meeting on Wednesday.

Those councillors are Alan Gibbons, Alison Clarke, Alfie Hincks, Rona Heron, Joanne Calvert and Lindsay Melia.

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