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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Liverpool's Ian Byrne named MP of the Year

Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne has been named Member of Parliament of the Year after just two years in Parliament.

The Labour MP has scooped the prestigious Overall MP of the Year Award from the Patchwork Foundation - a national charity that supports participation in democracy. Mr Byrne was already well known in the city before he entered Parliament. He is one of the co-founders of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks organisation, which started off with foodbank collections before Liverpool and Everton matches and has now become a national network of projects.

Ahead of the December 2019 General Election, Mr Byrne, who was a Liverpool City Councillor for Everton, won the Labour selection to replace Stephen Twigg as the candidate to be the next Member of Parliament for West Derby. He won the seat with a huge majority.

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