'It was good to know you, George'

POLITICIANS FROM ALL SIDES PAY TRIBUTE TO FORMER COUNCILLOR

- By JAMIE GREER

TRIBUTES have been paid to a long-serving Liverpool councillor who died last month.

George Knibb, who was in his late 70s, started as a gardener in the city before he was elected as a councillor in 1987 for the Everton ward.

The left wing politician entered the council in the wake of the expulsion of the Militant Tendency, which took control of the Labour group and council from the early 1980s until they were expelled from 1985 onwards. George soon quit Labour himself and became the leader of a small group of other left-wingers on the council called Ward Labour.

When Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, he rejoined the party and became a councillor in Norris Green in 2019.

His brother Phil Knibb previously served as a director for the Alt Valley Community Trust and North Liverpool Regeneration Company.