The Manchester Evening News has launched an election chatbot named after suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst which aims to encourage people to vote on 8 June.

The chatbot, called Emmeline, can be accessed on the Facebook Messenger app – in the same way as the Guardian’s chatbot which launched in September last year.

Emmeline will respond to user’s questions about the previous general election in their constituency and tell them who their candidates are for 2017 as well as guiding them on the voting process.