So who will replace Liverpool Walton's Peter Kilfoyle?
Liverpool's former Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram is likely to emerge as the local frontrunner to replace Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle.
Cllr Rotheram represents the Fazakerley ward which sits inside the ultra-safe Labour seat, where the party has a majority of almost 16,000.
Had there been an open selection for Liverpool Wavertree he would have been a favourite for that seat.
He can lay claim to an even closer tie with this seat.
Deputy Liverpool Labour leader Paul Brant would also be expected to be in with a strong shout for the seat.
And Gary Booth, who works in Mr Kilfoyle's office, may also fancy his chances.
But it will all depend on what the Labour party's National Executive Committee decides to do.
The NEC will once again decide whether to have an open list or an all women shortlist. And then it will give the local party a shortlist to choose from, so we can expect some national Labour party figures to emerge.
In his resignation letter Mr Kilfoyle writes: 'That choice is, of course, entirely yours; but I hope that your choice will reflect the needs of Walton and Liverpool for local representation - someone with a feel for, and knowledge of, both Liverpool and the Labour Party.'
Many wondered what he was playing at when he attacked Luciana Berger for not being local and a student politician when she was chosen for Wavertree.
It now looks like he was setting down a marker.
As he said in his resignation letter: "Much of political life is an illusion, to both the participant and the observer."
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Speaking as a Labour voter in Walton constituency, there will be outrage if another all-woman shortlist is imposed or a London-based candidate parachuted in here! NEC be warned!
Of course if a sitting councillor stands for this one they will really need to stand down from their council seat in advance of the General Election as now that Colin Eldridge has done this in Wavertree it would look very bad if Labour failed to make the same commitment.
No need for threats, bb. You won't have an all-woman shortlist. In fact you won't have anyone young, black, gay or female. You'll get someone in your own image: a middle-aged Scouse bloke who'll spend the next 20 years snarlng, griping and feeling hard-done by while the local party withers away and Walton goes further down the pan. Someone just like your last two MPs actually.
Calm down Ronnie or you'll well and truly choke on the New Labour agenda you appear to have swallowed. Liverpool has enough local political talent without having candidates imposed or shortlists manipulated to suit anointed candidates from outside the city.
Why is Joe Anderson's name not in the hat?
The local party here in Walton exists only in name - blighted as it is by bad Militant-style control and one bitter nasty man in particular. It's why many did what I did and left vowing never to return whilst that person remained.
Walton Labour is not about Labour politics anymore. It barely even meets. It'll be interesting to see just how many people have remained in the local party able to vote.
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