The North West Labour Party Conference returned to Blackpool, 4-5 November, for a seventh successive year, with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP visiting on the second day.
The conference has grown and this year attracted 1,000 visitors over the weekend with a line-up of speeches and fringe events.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry were all also in attendance.
The conference gave business tourism colleagues in resort the opportunity to showcase the resort and share details of the new conference centre which is due for completion in spring 2019, with the leader.
Councillor Simon Blackburn, leader of Blackpool Council opened the conference and welcomed delegates at the Hilton Hotel Blackpool and said: “What a great opportunity it was not just for myself to welcome delegates, but also to showcase what we have to offer in resort, particularly highlighting the plans for the new conference centre.”
VisitBlackpool exhibited at the conference and Mandy Tythe McCallum, tourism manager for VisitBlackpool, said: “It was important for us to have a presence at the conference and enabled us to engage with key people from the Labour Party to discuss a return to Blackpool for the national conference during their next open year.
“Jeremy Corbyn MP said that he would support a bid to see a return to the resort and looked forward to hearing how Blackpool could deliver a successful national Labour Party conference.”
