Labour will win Southport, Jeremy Corbyn tells crowd on latest visit

Labour “will win Southport” Jeremy Corbyn asserted on his second visit to the town since last year’s favourable general election result.

Speaking to party members at an event in the town’s Prince of Wales Hotel, he revealed how there is “more to come” after pushing the Liberal Democrats into third place in GE2017 and last month having their first ever elected Labour councillors in the town since the creation of Sefton in 1974, thanks to resounding majority wins in Kew and Norwood, described by the Labour Leader as “most incredible”.

To cheers and applause, he continued:

“I don’t know which is going to come first, another general election or another chance to gain more seats in Southport but whichever it is, we are going to win both.”

Praising Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Southport, Liz Savage, and the local party’s strong campaigning in the town, he also highlighted how Southport Labour activists were increasingly involved in community work, telling the media:

” Labour is very active and absolutely part of Southport life, we are talking to people all the time about their lives, about their jobs, about their housing and about their hopes.”

In a wide-ranging speech that touched on Brexit, the creation of a national education service, housing and how a Labour government would revive the fortunes of Southport and the country, he even managed to reveal his comedy skills with a very passable Boris Johnson imitation that went down very well with the audience packed into the hotel’s main ballroom.

Liz Savage says the event was “inspirational” to party members and a fitting reward for all the hard work being put in:

” It was fantastic to see Jeremy here again in such a relatively short space of time. I know he feels that the local party is bursting with positivity and we just need to carry that on; all pulling together to ensure that come the next general election, we are ready to stop the cuts and cut the Tories. There is only one way of doing that, by voting Labour.”