LIVERPOOL actor and Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson is considering standing to become the next MP for Liverpool Wavertree.

Tomlinson, 70, said he was “incensed” by the selection of Londoner Luciana Berger, 28, by Labour to stand in the seat.

He said the current state of British politics after the expenses scandal was “abhorrent” and that Parliament needed more working class representatives.

The actor is considering standing for the Arthur Scargill-led Socialist Labour Party, of which he is a member.

He said it would up to a meeting of the party next week whether he would be the candidate.

But, if chosen, he said his campaign slogan could be “Berger? My arse”, in homage to his famed TV character Jim Royle.

It will come as a further blow to Labour and Miss Berger, who has been embroiled in controversy since she was chosen to fight late last month.

The director of Labour Friends Of Israel beat Liverpool councillor Wendy Simon by a margin of around 2-1 to win the candidacy from an all-women shortlist.

Veteran Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle branded her a student politician who lacked the experience to do the job.

And last week her lack of local knowledge was exposed when she could not say who Anfield legend Bill Shankly was, or who sang Ferry Across the Mersey.