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What’s in the nomination papers and candidates’ consent to nomination for candidates in the election of a councillor to Liverpool City Council for Anfield, Allerton & Hunts Cross and Belle Vale wards?
What’s in the nomination papers and candidates’ consent to nomination for candidates in the election of a councillor to Liverpool City Council for Anfield, Allerton & Hunts Cross and Belle Vale wards?
What’s in the nomination papers and candidates’ consent to nomination in the election of a councillor to Liverpool City Council for Anfield, Allerton & Hunts Cross and Belle Vale wards?
The author would like to thank The Bureau of Investigative Journalism for its help with this story. The author is an election observer during the period of these elections.
Below are the nomination papers and candidates’ consent to nomination for candidates in the 2018 elections of a councillor to Liverpool City Council for Allerton & Hunts Cross, Anfield and Belle Vale wards.
Wards are listed alphabetically, with candidates listed alphabetically by surname. The nomination paper is first, followed by the consent to nomination.
These are open to public inspection until 2nd May 2018.
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4 thoughts on “What’s in the nomination papers and candidates’ consent to nomination for candidates in the election of a councillor to Liverpool City Council for Anfield, Allerton & Hunts Cross and Belle Vale wards?”
Thank you, John, but what point are you making, please?
Thank you for your comment John.
The point is there should be transparency about what’s in nomination papers which is achieved through publication (especially as there has been a prosecution for perjury in the recent past of Warren Bradley for falsifying a signature on a candidates’ consent to nomination). However there are a number of other points that will become clearer in a story to be published later today about what happened when I inspected these at Wirral Council and a point whether Liverpool City Council has the legal power to levy charges for copies (or not).
Thank you, John, but what point are you making, please?
Thank you for your comment John.
The point is there should be transparency about what’s in nomination papers which is achieved through publication (especially as there has been a prosecution for perjury in the recent past of Warren Bradley for falsifying a signature on a candidates’ consent to nomination). However there are a number of other points that will become clearer in a story to be published later today about what happened when I inspected these at Wirral Council and a point whether Liverpool City Council has the legal power to levy charges for copies (or not).
I think this article I’ve just published makes my point that there is uncertainty as to whether without an explicit legal power to do so that charges for copies of nomination papers and consents to nomination should be made Why did Liverpool City Council charge £29.80 for copies of nomination papers and consents to nomination for the candidates to be a councillor in the 2018 elections?