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A former Liverpool Militant leader is to be one of the stars of a party political broadcast by an anti-austerity party in the run-up to the General Election.

Tony Mulhearn, who is standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) will appear in the broadcast, filmed this week outside Parliament, and due to be shown on April 17.

Mr Mulhearn was one of the leading figures of the Labour council that ran the city between 1983 and 1987 and was described as “one of the masterminds of the Militancy through his role as president of the District Labour Party”.

TUSC was set-up in 2010 “to enable trade unionists, community campaigners and socialists to stand candidates against the pro-austerity establishment parties”.

Mr Mulhearn said TUSC was able to show an election broadcast because they had “spectacularly” surpassed the 100 Parliamentary candidates required to qualify for the broadcast.

He said that so far the party has 120 people standing in the Parliamentary elections and this is “the largest left of Labour challenge since WWI”.

He said: “I have done this sort of thing before. The biggest difficulty was the tiny time frame to make a statement, you have to be totally focussed.”

Mr Mulhearn is expected to stand as the parliamentary candidate for Riverside against Labour’s Louise Ellman, Martin Dobson for the Green Party and Jackson Ng for the Conservatives. Nominations close on April 9.