The
Labour Party Conference at ACC Liverpool welcomed more than 20,000 delegates in the party's biggest and most well attended conference to
date.
The five-day event is estimated to have generated more than £30 million in economic impact, and is set to return to Liverpool in 2025 for its fourth
consecutive year at the waterfront venue.
The
conference, the first since Labour's landslide general election victory in July, took over the entire
events campus including ACC Liverpool, Exhibition Centre Liverpool and the
M&S Bank Arena, and included more than 600 fringe events, keynote speeches
and networking opportunities. The exhibition centre housed a 2,200-seat
auditorium for plenary sessions in addition to Labour’s largest exhibition ever. The arena was divided into
individual meeting spaces with the concourse transformed into a delegate
engagement zone, and the interconnected Pullman Liverpool operated as the
headquarters hotel for the conference.
This
year, the Labour Party has also supported ACC Liverpool’s efforts to further
increase the biodiversity of the campus. In an effort to make the annual conference more sustainable, Labour Party delegates paid a small fee to
compensate for the carbon emissions associated with their attendance. Thanks to
this carbon emission fee a third beehive has now been added to the existing two
that were installed on the campus in May this year. The bees help maintain a
healthy balance within the local ecosystem by pollinating plants, ensuring
their reproduction, and aiding in the overall sustainability of the surrounding
environment.
Faye
Dyer, chief executive of The ACC Liverpool Group, said: “It has been a pleasure to
welcome the Labour Party and their delegates back to our venue for the third
consecutive year. The whole city works together to organise and deliver a major
conference of this scale. Planning for an event of this size takes months and
we have worked in partnership with Merseyside Police and our city partners to
deliver a safe and successful event."
ACC
Liverpool staff were thanked by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, who
said: “We are proud to host our conference in Liverpool and appreciate how much
work goes into organising an event on this scale, especially as we are now the
party in power. Our thanks go out to the team at ACC Liverpool and their
partners for making it such a successful event. We look forward to coming again
next year.”
In
addition to this year’s outing, the Labour Party conference has taken place at
the venue in 2011, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2023. It will return to ACC Liverpool
in 2025 for the fourth consecutive year.
ACC
Liverpool has welcomed thousands of delegates through its doors this year to a
wide variety of conference including the Housing Community Summit, Alzheimer’s
Research UK, Royal College of Midwives, British Equine Veterinary Association
Congress and the British Society for Haematology.
