Politics

Tributes to the long-serving former Birkenhead MP and crossbench peer, Lord Frank Field have been paid by Merseyside representatives from across the political spectrum. Lord Field represented Birkenhead for 40 years spanning from 1979 to 2019, first as a Labour...

Next month’s Liverpool City Region mayoral election will be the first to use the first past the post voting system to elect the region’s metro mayor.   In the previous two votes for this position the supplementary vote system had been...

Cllr Paul Brant, Labour Councillor for Fazakerley Ward, was appointed as assistant mayor in May. He speaks to MerseyNewsLive about what the new city council budget will mean to Liverpool. Mayor Joanne Anderson previously warned that savings of up...

Katie Smith interviews the recently-elected leader of Liverpool's Labour group, Cllr Liam Robinson, on his new role, the council and current issues affecting local people. Listen to Katie Smith's full interview here: https://soundcloud.com/vapovraxx/interview-with-cllr-liam-robinson?si=720e42d3afb0407abe4b6cecba097f93&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne has made recent comments in parliament on Everton's 10 point deduction. The MP described the decision - after the club was found to have breached the Premier League's financial rules - as "grossly unjust". Listen...

The government has confirmed that the North West will receive £1.48bn from the Local Transport Fund from next April. The funding comes from reallocated HS2 funding and is being invested into new bus and train stations, better public transport and...

Merseyside’s Police and Crime Commissioner has set out her plans to protect the force from a £8.5m blackhole caused by "insufficient" Government funding. Emily Spurrell says that the turbulent economic climate has left her with no choice but to raise...

Students are being encouraged to complete a census for both their university address and their at-home address. The 2021 census will be carried out on March 21 to gather data on how coronavirus has affected health and finances across England,...

Sefton Council have released a survey aimed at giving a voice to the children and young people in the area. The survey, which is available until the 22nd March, is aiming to gather as much feedback as possible to make...

Protestors in Liverpool have reacted angrily to plans which could see trans women being banned from female-only healthcare spaces such as Liverpool Women's Hospital Health secretary Steve Barclay promised to restore “common sense” to the health service and recognise “the...