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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, arriving at Anfield(Image: PA)
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, laid flowers outside Anfield after hearing about the shock death of Liverpool striker Diogo Jota.
She was with Mayor of Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram.
“Life and his career had only just started, he’s done an incredible job here at Liverpool Football Club and one of their greatest strikers and just getting married, having his young children, looking forward to all the great things that he was going to do here and in his life.
“I came here for a local government conference and just to hear that sad news, and I’ve been over at Everton today and just seeing the outpouring across the whole of the city is, it is incredible and our condolences and our thoughts today are primarily with Diogo ‘s family and his wife and his children.”
Jota, the 28-year-old Portugal international, tragically died overnight after a car crash in northern Spain - just days after getting married to his childhood sweetheart.
What I can confirm is that no other vehicle was involved and no-one else was hurt."
Article continues belowDeputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Steve Rotheram leave a floral tribute to the Liverpool star(Image: PA)
Outside Anfield, a Manchester United fan, Joe Parsons, laid his club scarf at the growing memorial to Jota as he visited with wife Kelly, a Liverpool fan.
Joe, 40, said: “After I put the scarf down it was amazing how many Liverpool fans shook my hand.
He was only just married and they are all so young.
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