Liverpool City Councillor Colette Goulding

A Liverpool Labour councillor has been suspended by the party, it is understood. Cllr Goulding, who was elected to Liverpool City Council in 2023 to represent the West Derby Muirhead ward, has had the whip removed by Labour amid an ongoing investigation, the ECHO understands.

This means that currently, Cllr Goulding will sit as an independent member of the local authority. Cllr Goulding is linked to troubled charity and business group The Big Help Group.

The Big Help Group is understood to be a parent group containing a number of companies and organisations, designed to help communities and support charitable aims.

Among them are the Big Help Project, an anti-poverty charity which has been the subject of an investigation by the Charity Comm

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