{"id":657790,"date":"2026-06-25T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:36:13","slug":"lib-dems-name-candidate-for-manchester-mayor-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657790\/","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dems name candidate for Manchester mayor by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liberal Democrats have announced their candidate for the Manchester mayoral election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Kilpatrick, a former teacher who has been a councillor in the Didsbury area since 2018, has pledged to &#8220;tackle the cost of living crisis, improve public services and deliver desperately needed housing for the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The by-election for a new metropolitan mayor was called after former metropolitan mayor Andy Burnham was elected as MP for Makerfield earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A full list of the announced candidates standing to be mayor can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c39yd73xml3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberal Democrats have announced their candidate for the Manchester mayoral election. Richard Kilpatrick, a former teacher who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}