ACTOR Ricky Tomlinson should know by the middle of next week whether he will be standing for Parliament.
He caused a sensation on Friday when announced he would consider standing in Liverpool Wavertree for the Socialist Labour Party.
He is unhappy about Labour’s selection of 28-year-old Londoner Luciana Berger.
Tomlinson said: “I’m filming this week, but the Socialist Labour Party is hoping to arrange a selection meeting in Liverpool next week – on Wednesday, probably.
“I love Liverpool and the people of Liverpool, but I am just one of quite a few people who have put themselves forward. But, if selected, I would be delighted to stand and fight for that area.”
If he does end up standing, it is sure to increase the already intense public and media focus on the seat in the run-up to the election campaign.
Miss Berger, the director of Labour Friends Of Israel, has been surrounded by controversy since she was chosen to fight Wavertree two weeks ago.
She beat Liverpool councillor Wendy Simon and Joyce Still by a margin of around 2-1 to win the candidacy from an all-women shortlist.
Walton Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle later branded her a student politician, while she could not say who Anfield legend Bill Shankly was or who sang Ferry Across the Mersey.
