Mr Tomlinson, who worked as a plasterer, was jailed along with five others. Mr Tomlinson served 16 months behind bars before making his TV breakthrough as Bobby Grant in Brookside and has spent many years campaigning to quash the sentences. The Liverpudlian actor said Labour took "just a terrible drumming" at the last election and Mr Starmer was the candidate to reverse it. “I first came across Keir Starmer some time ago, when he got involved in the Shrewsbury Campaign. Asked if he would be flattered if it were true Mr Starmer said: "Of course I would."

Source: Daily Mirror January 17, 2020 16:52 UTC