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TWO more councillors have resigned from Labour in protest at the party’s lurch to the right and its stance on the war in Gaza.
The resignations of Sefton councillors Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall come weeks before residents of the Merseyside borough go to the polls in local elections on May 2. They will now sit as independents.
Mr Halsall, who was elected in 2019, said: “The Labour Party of 2024 feels a world away from the hope and genuine change that inspired me to campaign for the party.
“The positions of the national party now are so far away from those inspirational policies of 2017 and 2019 that got me involved in politics.”
As an independent, he will no longer be tied to an “outdated whip system that holds us to ransom to tow the party line, a party line that has stopped any expression on the conflict in Gaza,” he added.
Cllr Carlin said: “I no longer feel the Labour Party represents the morals and principles that I live by and I do not recognise the party as the one I joined in 2016.”
