Liam Robinson

What does the Labour Budget mean for Liverpool?

✅ Two child benefit cap scrapped
💷 Saving households £150 per year on on energy bills
📈 Significantly lifting the minimum wage

Only Labour will deliver for working people in Liverpool

Levy on overnight trips will help mayors invest in local growth England’s mayors will be able to invest in transport, infrastructure, and the visitor economy through a new levy on overnight stays.

📰 Overnight accommodation levy announced

💷 Tourism is vital to Liverpool and contributes millions to our local economy

📈 This will enable us to raise funds and grow the visitor economy further

👥 Meaning more visitors and more jobs for local people

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Great Britain announces bid to host 2030 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Liverpool - Liverpool Express British Gymnastics has announced its ambition to bring the event back to Liverpool in 2030. Should the bid be successful, the event would be one of the biggest global sporting events to be held in the...

📰 Great Britain announces bid to host 2030 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Liverpool

🥇 We excel at hosting world class events and this is a fantastic opportunity for Liverpool, building upon the success of the 2022 games

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🎬 The Liverpool Film Office are offering free sessions to learn more about the film and TV industry & how you could get your foot on that career ladder

🎬 Attendees should be over 18, from the Kensington area and interested in Film & TV careers

📅 Friday 12th September

👪 Working families in Liverpool now have access to 30 hours of government-funded childcare, saving families £7,500 and providing high quality early years education for our children

📰 Find out more: beststartinlife.gov.uk

Developers selected for Festival Gardens scheme - Liverpool Express Plans for the regeneration of Liverpool’s iconic Festival Gardens site have taken a major step forward with the selection of a development partner.

📢 One really big step closer to realising the Festival Gardens Housing scheme

🏡 Development partners have been selected to deliver one of the most exciting and transformative brownfield housing projects in the country

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Weekly food waste collections roll-out to start in September - Liverpool Express From September, select households in Liverpool will begin to receive free, weekly food waste collections as the Council rolls out its newest recycling initiative.

📰 Weekly food waste collections roll-out to start in September

♻️ All food waste will be able to be recycled, including leftovers, vegetable peelings, bones, and teabags

🗑️ This will help drive down carbon emissions and reduce waste

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🌹 Today's Spending Review is a real statement that this Labour government is investing in cities like Liverpool

✅ Supporting our goals to build 8,000 new homes in Liverpool, revitalise our NHS and renew areas such as East Speke

Have a look at my full reaction 👇

📢 From September 2026, every child in a household on Universal Credit will be entitled to a free school meal

👪 This will put nearly £500 more in parents’ pockets and will make a real difference for families struggling with the cost of living here in Liverpool

❤️🚍

📰 The Government has announced that the Liverpool City Region has secured £1.6bn in transport funding

This will be used to deliver:

🚉 New train stations
🛣️ A rapid transit network
🚍 A better bus system under public control

English mayors push for visitor levy to boost income from tourism Group led by Steve Rotheram says introducing local tourism tax would empower regional growth

📰 Brilliant to see our Labour Mayors, led by @metromayorsteve.bsky.social, backing our call for a Tourism Tax

💷 The revenue generated would allow us to directly invest in the visitor experience

📈 Leading to more jobs and more economic growth here in Liverpool

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"Imagine Liverpool" - New regeneration board established - Liverpool Express A new team of experts tasked with supercharging a multi-billion pound regeneration drive in Liverpool, has been announced.

📰 'Imagine Liverpool' - Regen Board established

🤝 We have brought together a team of experts to unlock Liverpool's amazing potential

📈 They've been tasked with supercharging a multi-billion pound regeneration drive to deliver homes, jobs and growth

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📢 Newsham Community Fun Day

📅 Please join us on Sunday 18th May, from 10am to 3pm, at Gardner's Drive (near the cafe)

🏏 Join us for fun, games, crafts, markets, sports and music, as we celebrate community and support one another

📰 The Labour Govt has announced plans to crack down on fly-tipping

🛑 Councils will have new powers and resources to seize and crush vehicles of waste criminals

📈 This builds upon the £475k we invested this year to tackle fly-tipping here in Liverpool

👏 Congratulations to LFC on behalf of everyone at @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social

🏆 Worthy Premier League Champions

Everton FC hopes new stadium will accelerate Liverpool’s regeneration Club’s owners make pitch to government and investors on benefits of Bramley-Moore Dock development

⚽️ Bramley-Moore Dock represents a huge opportunity for regeneration in north Liverpool

🏘️ This, coupled with the £56m grant from Homes England into Central Docks, will spur on further investment into the surrounding area

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Happy Easter to everybody celebrating here in Liverpool!

Liverpool to remember Hillsborough anniversary - Liverpool Express A minute’s silence will be held in Liverpool to mark the 36th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy. The silence will be observed on Tuesday 15 April at

Today, we remember the 97 supporters who lost their lives at Hillsborough

We stand together with their families and the survivors of the Hillsborough disaster

They will never be forgotten

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👨‍👩‍👧 We will be investing at least £500k into our youth services

📈 This will build back a youth worker team that was decimated under successive Tory governments

🏘️ This boost will play a vital role in how we combat the dangers of Ketamine in our communities

Memorandum to 'strengthen ties' between Isle of Man and Liverpool The regions pledge cooperation on economic opportunities, tourism, and transport connections.

⛴️ Myself and @metromayorsteve.bsky.social were really pleased to join Alfred Cannan at the new Isle of Man ferry terminal and discuss greater cooperation

🤝 We pledged to strengthen economic, cultural, and political ties between Liverpool and the Isle of Man

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👏 Thank you LSSL for all your hard work cleaning our streets after St Patrick's Day

🧹 It is vital we deliver clean streets for the people of Liverpool, which is why Liverpool Labour has invested an additional £1.5m into street cleaning for the year ahead

#Commemoration | To commemorate five years since the pandemic began, there is a national Covid-19 Day of Reflection.

In Liverpool, the event will take place Sunday 9th March 10am-4pm, at St Georges Hall.

Find out more 👇 stgeorgeshallliverpool.co.uk/liverpoolrem...

Council budget for 2025/26 agreed - Liverpool Express Councillors have approved Liverpool City Council's budget for the next year.It will see an additional £15.3 million invested in the delivery of frontline

✍️ Last night @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social approved our budget for the next year

We have invested £15.3m into the delivery of frontline services for residents, including:

🧹 £1.5m extra into cleaning the streets
🚸 £500k on road safety around our primary schools

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🌙 Ramadan Mubarak to all those observing here in Liverpool

❤️ On behalf of everyone at Liverpool Labour and @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social we wish you & your families a peaceful and joyous month

Our devolution revolution will get power out of Westminster and back to communities.

Last week I visited Liverpool & Chester to meet with @liam-robinson.bsky.social, @metromayorsteve.bsky.social & other local leaders to discuss our Devolution Priority Programme and the exciting opportunities ahead!

Ssspectacular celebrations as Liverpool marks the Year of the Snake - Liverpool Express Liverpool is set to welcome the Lunar New Year in ssstyle, with a series of vibrant free events and activities taking place to mark the Year of the Snake.

From all of here at the Liverpool Labour Group, we would like to wish our East and Southeast Asian communities in Liverpool a very Happy Lunar New Year!

We have planned a series of vibrant free events and activities taking place to mark the Year of the Snake

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Rachel Reeves makes major Liverpool announcement in speech The Chancellor backed Steve Rotheram as she made the speech

Chancellor Rachel Reeves makes major Liverpool City Region announcement in speech.

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Liverpool marks Holocaust Memorial Day with special service The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia have been marked by a reflective ceremony at Liverpool’s Town Hall. The theme of

Honoured to be asked to attend the ceremony Honoured to be asked to attend the ceremony www.birkenhead.news/liverpool-ma... #HMD2025 @liam-robinson.bsky.social @carlcashman.bsky.social @cllrkemp.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social

Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2025 to take place in Liverpool Sam Fender announced as first headliner with Myles Smith, Wet Leg, Blossoms and Lola Young also set to perform

📰 NEWS:

🎶 Liverpool be hosting BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May

🎸 We can't wait to host so many great artists in Sefton park later this year

🎵 Really proud to keep delivering on our legacy as the home of major events

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