Liverpool celebrates ‘successful’ conference

LABOUR leader Ed MIliband has praised Liverpool for being a “fantastic backdrop” for the Labour Party conference.

The event has given the city an estimated £15m economic boost, attracting 11,000 delegates and 2,000 journalists.

Around 500 fringe meetings, debates and discussions have taken place at venues across the city, and the city has been the backdrop for hundreds of hours of national TV coverage.

Miliband said: “Liverpool has been a fantastic host city and I would like to thank all the people and agencies involved in making our conference such a great success.
 
“Listening to people has always been at the heart of Labour Party conference and by holding conference in Liverpool many people have experienced conference for the first time.
 
“The city and its venues have been a fantastic back drop for a very successful conference.”

Bob Prattey, chief executive of ACC Liverpool, said: “The conference has enabled us to showcase everything the city and our world-class venue has to offer, not least the talent of our team here at ACC Liverpool, the expertise of our partners across the city and the warm welcome that the people of Liverpool have once again provided.

“To have successfully delivered such a large-scale event, with the eyes of the world’s media upon us, has been a massive coup.”