Labour Party Conference: everything you need to know
The annual Labour Party Conference is returning to Liverpool.
Over the next week the city will hold speeches, votes, delegations and training for members, trade unions and MPs.
it is one of the biggest events in UK politics in the year;...
Council tax change to help ‘struggling families’
The Government has launched a 12-week consultation on how to make council tax collection fairer in the UK.
One of the key proposals is to spread payments of council tax over 12 months instead of 10 as currently happens....
Benefit payment changes for May 2025 threaten to overwhelm food banks
With controversial changes benefit payments set to take effect from tomorrow, Merseyside’s charities and food banks are bracing for a surge in demand.
Speaking to Mersey News Live ahead of the May 1 changes to Universal Credit and Personal Independence...
Runcorn voters head to polls in Starmer’s first by-election test
Voters in Runcorn and Helsby head to the polls this Thursday for the first by-election of the current parliament. With 15 candidates in the running, the Labour-held constituency may be under threat as a tight battle is expected.
The constituency...
Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ community reacts to “scary” Supreme Court ruling
Liverpool's LGBTQ+ community gathered in the city centre this weekend as part of a national day of action in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman.
Protesters told Mersey News Live that the court judgement,...
Campaigners criticise delays to ‘Hillsborough Law’
Hillsborough campaigners have expressed frustration about new delays to a promised law designed to prevent cover-ups by police and other public bodies.
Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer cancelled a meeting with relatives of the Hillsborough victims.
On Friday, a...
DaDaFest International 2025 Celebrates 40 Years of Disability and Deaf Arts
Liverpool's Deaf and disability arts festival DaDaFest will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an impressive array of visual arts, movies, performances, and workshops.
Large-scale projections, live theatre, and thought-provoking installations are all part of DaDaFest International 40 (DDFI40), which runs...
Merseyside politicians speak out against ‘sadistically cruel’ welfare cuts
Merseyside politicians have spoken out against planned Government cuts to disability payments, claiming they will hit the poorest people in the region unfairly.
Work Secretary Liz Kendall announced the changes to the UK's welfare system in Parliament yesterday. The changes...
“Prices will increase” as a result of Trump’s Trade War says Liverpool economist.
A Liverpool economist has said that America's US Trade War being could create a world not seen since the 1930s’ Great Depression.
The Trump administration has imposed a 25% tax increase on steel and aluminium exports as well as products...
Liverpool Labour MP hits back at Government cuts to benefit system
Liverpool Riverside MP, Kim Johnson has criticised Keir Starmer's claims that Britain's benefit system is "unsustainable, indefensible, and unfair", claiming that labelling the welfare system as such is "straight from the Tory playbook".
MP, Kim Johnson has labelled the predicted...
