Candidates spoke to Skwawkbox editor Steve Walker on Socialist Telly about why they’re standing, what they stand for and why their Labour opponents need to be ousted
Liverpool Community Independents candidate Sam Gorst, already an independent councillor in Garston, is standing as a parliamentary candidate in the same seat, aiming to defeat Labour right-winger Maria Eagle in the seat where he and colleague Lucy Williams thrashed Labour in last year’s local elections.
Independent candidate Nandita Lal is standing in Tottenham and if she wins she will remove Keir Starmer’s Shadow Foreign Secretary – and his fellow genocide apologist – David Lammy.
Gorst and Lal spoke to Skwawkbox’s Steve Walker this evening about why they are standing, what they stand for and the reception they are receiving from local people – and why their Labour opponents need to be ousted in seats where Labour has taken voters for granted for years:
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