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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Liverpool Council suspends letter system amid 'political misuse' allegation

Liverpool City Council has suspended its street letter system for councillors and launched an investigation into allegations of misuse.

The street letter system allows elected councillors to print and distribute letters to residents in their wards about local issues and their work as councillors. The letters must not be used for party political purposes.

However on Monday evening, all councillors were contacted by the council's head of governance Michael Jones to say the entire system had been suspended.

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