Conservative mayor candidate makes ambitious claim

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RE: Conservative mayor candidate makes ambitious claim

(08/04/2017 10:53)knutstransport Wrote:  Liverpool was a Lib Dem council between 1998 and 2005.

Wirral was under no overall control for around 10 years with Labour (the biggest party) having less than 40% of the seats and the Lib Dems and Conservatives having around 60% of the seats between them.

In 2007 Labour only had one more councillor than the Lib Dems in St Helens and had fewer councillors than the Lib Dems in Sefton.

It's only Knowsley and Halton where Labour are pretty much guaranteed to be in control but I imagine it'd require the Tory voters on the Wirral to vote tactically for the Lib Dems to not have a Labour Metro Mayor for the Liverpool city region.

Lib Dems only had that control in Liverpool because it took the Labour party that long to shed its Militant links.

Following the National coalition a lot of Liberal Democrat politicans will not now work with the Conservatives.