Floyd Millen (right) has been shortlisted for selection as Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) in Liverpool West Derby where the local party have chosen not to automatically reselect the sitting Labour MP, 77 year old Bob Wareing. Wareing is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and has regularly rebelled against the government.

The hustings to choose the new PPC takes place next Sunday 16 September. Though the former minister and MP Stephen Twigg is considered to be the favourite, Millen, a protégé of former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, and a programme director at the Black Training and Enterprise Group, will be hoping this will be his third time lucky having performed strongly and got shortlisted in Putney and Bristol West. The constituency is a safe Labour seat.

Two ethnic minority PPC candidates have also been shortlisted in York Outer – Hugh Goulbourne and Ashiq Hussain. Goulbourne (left),  a commercial lawyer and officer of Hackney South Labour Party, is chair of Compass’ Environment and Sustainability Group and is a Director of the Shoreditch Trust. He has contributed to TMP, runs the Community Energy website and is well respected in environmental circles. Hussain (right) from Derby South Labour party is a former Derby City Councillor. The hustings takes place on Monday 17 September. York Outer is a new, marginal seat with a notional Liberal Democrat majority of 1821.