Dear John

Can you chip in to help me become Labour’s candidate for the West Midlands’ Metro-Mayor?

There's a crucial step in rebuilding Labour after our general election defeat - and I’m writing to ask for your help. This week ballots go out to Labour members, to choose our candidate for Britain’s biggest mayoral role outside London - the metro-mayor of the West Midlands

We need to raise £3,000 to help write to and call our 14,000 members who make the decision. Can you chip in to help??

Since I announced in May, we’ve run a positive, issue based campaign - focused on the things that our region needs:

an end to the moral emergency of homelessness and hungry families
action to help us lead the green industrial revolution
and a real plan to reunite a region divided, like the rest of the country - by the challenge of Brexit and the rise in hate crime.

Our campaign is backed by John McDonnell, Gordon Brown and over 150 local party leaders and activists, including trade unions like the GMB, USDAW, the TSSA and Community, plus the Co-operative Party, the Socialist Health Association, the West Midlands Fabian Society, Labour Campaign for International Development, the Labour Party Irish Society and Chinese for Labour.

Anything you can do to help us would make the absolute world of difference. We have a huge task to rebuild the West Midlands for the many and not the few. So let's start now! There are two ways to give!

Our Go Fund me page is

https://www.gofundme.com/f/liam-byrne-for-metro-mayor

Or use a bank transfer to avoid transfer fees: the campaign account is First Direct
sort code: 40-47-84, account number: 04873408

Thanks for everything you can do to help!

Best wishes

Liam Byrne MP