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Mark Pack

“Crash landing” for Luciana Berger in Liverpool Wavertree

By Mark Pack | Sat 24th April 2010 - 9:20 am

Yesterday The Independent profiles the contest in Liverpool Wavertree between Colin Eldridge and Luciana Berger:

Crash landing for Labour candidate parachuted into Liverpool
When London-born Luciana Berger was chosen as the Labour candidate to fight the seat of Liverpool Wavertree three months ago she was tipped as a rising star with a future ministerial career ahead of her. Unfortunately it was not long before things started to go horribly wrong.

There had already been rumblings of discontent within the local party at the imposition of an all-female shortlist for this eminently retainable heartland seat. Then the Labour leadership in London was accused

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Mark Pack

Labour candidates hit trouble in Liverpool and Northampton

By Mark Pack | Thu 18th March 2010 - 4:10 pm

Labour’s Liverpool Wavertree candidate Luciana Berger is in trouble again:

Wavertree’s Labour candidate, Luciana Berger fell to pieces in the first debate of the Election campaign, which saw Colin Eldrigde for the Liberal Democrats and Conservative, Andrew Garnett attack the Londoner from both sides.

In a filming for ITV1s ‘Party People’, the three candidates were grilled by presenter Rob McLoughlin over their policies on crime and the economy.

When given 30 seconds to sell themselves in the debate at Riley’s Snooker Hall near Picton Clock, Berger froze, clasping her hands over her head repeatedly saying: “Sorry, can we start again?”

Following the re-take, which

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Mark Pack

Luciana Berger and the customised number plate

By Mark Pack | Sun 14th March 2010 - 7:25 pm

The Mail on Sunday reports:

As a Labour candidate in a working class area of Liverpool, glamorous 28-year-old Londoner Luciana Berger has gone to great lengths to prove her down-to-earth credentials.

The privately-educated friend of the Blairs’ son Euan has spent months canvassing on jobs, schools and hospitals.

And such is her devotion, the former management consultant has even ditched a car with a £5,000 personalised numberplate spelling out her name.

You can read the full story here and catch up on the previous travails of Luciana Berger here.

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Mark Pack

How many minders does a Parliamentary candidate need on the doorstep?

By Mark Pack | Sat 20th February 2010 - 11:10 am

This moment from a Granada Regional News report into Luciana Berger, the controversial Labour candidate for Liverpool Wavertree, caught my eye:

Luciana Berger TV report screenshot

One Labour candidate on the doorstep, talking to one member of the public – but with three other Labour people minding her by the looks of it. Perhaps just a little over-staffed 🙂

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Sara Bedford

Luciana Berger to be opposed by ‘Roylety’?

By Sara Bedford | Fri 5th February 2010 - 6:25 pm

Things may be going from bad to worse for Luciana Berger, the newly-selected Labour PPC for Liverpool Wavertree. After mutterings about the selection process, followed by concerns about the candidate living in the same house as hundreds of ballot papers, the actor Ricky Tomlinson, famous for roles in Brookside and the Royle Family, has announced that he will be seeking the nomination of Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party for the seat.

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Mark Pack

Luciana Berger hit by yet more Labour infighting in Liverpool Wavertree

By Mark Pack | Wed 3rd February 2010 - 8:36 pm

The story so far: Labour selects Luciana Berger as their candidate for Liverpool Wavertree, despite the fact that she was also a candidate for the local elections in Camden, London. Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle attacks Luciana Berger’s selection. Off the back of her Camden connection, a Liverpool paper decides to put Luciana Berger’s Livipudllian credentials to the test; a test that she then fails.

And now there are mutterings of discontent over how the selection process was run – because it turns out that during the selection contest she was staying in same house as Jane Kennedy, the retiring …

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Mark Pack

Crikey, I appear to know more about Liverpool than the new Labour candidate

By Mark Pack | Sat 30th January 2010 - 1:50 pm

A few days ago I blogged about the infighting in Liverpool Labour over the selection of Luciana Berger to be their Liverpool Wavertree candidate (majority: 2,911 over the Lib Dems) with Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle attacking her.

As the Liverpool Daily Post pointed out, some in Labour have complained that Luciana Berger is a “young southerner”. In fact, until selection in Liverpool she was one of the candidates for the Camden council elections in London.

So perhaps no surprise that another Liverpool paper, the Liverpool Echo, decided to put her to the test by …

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Mark Pack

“Labour goes to war over the selection of Luciana Berger for Wavertree”

By Mark Pack | Tue 26th January 2010 - 8:39 pm

So reports the Liverpool Daily Post:

The Labour party has descended into civil war over Luciana Berger’s success in winning the candidacy for Wavertree.

Last night Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle broke cover branding Miss Berger a “student politician” and questioned her support for Israel, views she shares with Jane Kennedy, the outgoing Wavertree MP who supported her campaign.

Mr Kilfoyle and Ms Kennedy may well have history, but his intervention has merely added fuel to a fire that was already alight since the decision was announced on Sunday.

He has given voice to a feeling of discontent shared with others in the local Labour

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