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Richard Kemp is selected as our candidate for Mayor of Liverpool

By | Tue 29th December 2015 - 1:23 pm

richard kempLiverpool Lib Dems have announced that they have selected Cllr Richard Kemp to run for Mayor of Liverpool in the election in May 2016. On his blog, Richard says:

You will know from your own conversations that people are tired of our Mayor. He has made a laughing stock of Liverpool time and time again. The result is that Manchester is leaping ahead of us on all fronts but especially those that relate to the economy and employment. But I am not standing just because I don’t like the Mayor. I will be fighting on a range of liberal issues which are the ones on which we rescued this City and gave it a future from 1998 to 2010 when we controlled the City.

Richard is one of our local government heroes. He has been a councillor in Liverpool for 30 years, during which time he has held various roles and is currently the Leader of the Lib Dem group. He has also been very active in the Local Government Association, where he has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Vice Chair of the organisation. Four years ago he was awarded the CBE for public service.

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4 Comments

  • Huw Dawson 29th Dec '15 - 5:45pm

    This campaign is going to be really interesting. I don’t know if there’s a local politician as unloved as Joe Anderson.

    Richard is a great guy and I’m certainly looking forward to our council campaign and the mayoral election!

  • Silvio 29th Dec '15 - 5:52pm

    Huw Dawson do you really mean what you have just posted. If Joe Anderson is in you opinion ‘unloved’ in such a huge way do you think he will loose the Election. Very poor form.

  • Dave Orbison 30th Dec '15 - 11:48am

    Huw Dawson – I am not especially keen on Joe Anderson but live just outside of Liverpool. However given that the Liberals once ran the city and are now reduced to, I think just three council lots of which R Kemp is one, his selection is no surprise . However it strikes me that referring to Anderson as unloved, given the rejection of the LibDems in Liverpool, is perhaps rather cheeky.

  • Dave Orbison 30th Dec '15 - 12:13pm

    Type – for “council lots” read councillors – the curse of using a phone with diminishing eyesight to post strikes again

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