Liam Fogarty has an interesting problem. As the figurehead of the 'Mayor For Liverpool' campaign he was a natural candidate. Within hours of Liverpool City Council taking the historic decision to bypass the referendum and have a Mayoral election in May Fogarty announced his intention to stand as an independent.
The Mayor For Liverpool campaign group had a number of high profile supporters. Some of these supporters, including Prof John Ashton, Hilary Burrage and Alex Corina, are well known Labour Party activists. Ashton is seeking to stand as Labour's candidate for the new office of Policing Commissioner while Corina has stood for election as a councillor in the Cressington Ward in recent years. As far as I'm aware it is against Labour Party policy for a member to campaign for another candidate. It can lead to being expelled.
Clearly, supporting the the campaign for a Mayor is not the same as backing the campaign leader in standing for Mayor. We'll have to wait and see if they join Joe Anderson's campaign team. But its an interesting problem for Fogarty. Having to build an election campaign team without some of his previous allies is another disadvantage for him,
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