Mersey Mayor Could Face the Chop as More High-paid Deputies are Appointed

At least one of the Liverpool Mayors could be on the way out due to a split in the ruling Labour Party. There are three present Liverpool Mayors, one of which also rules over transport and over strategic planning for Southport​. However, a clear split is developing in the ruling Labour elite as to whether one of these high-paid posts should bite the dust.

​Former Assistant Mayor ​Nick Small, dramatically sackedlast week by Mayor Joe Anderson, has called for a debate sooner rather than later’ on the issue of whether at least one of these Mayors should go.

Liverpool elected Mayors Joe Anderson and Steve Rotheram join Mersey Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy in an elite group of Liverpool Labour politicians who are each paid more than MPs. Two of these preside over affairs in Southport as well as the city of Liverpool. Jane Kennedy has raised eyebrows across the region by her appointment of a succession of high-paid deputies who some say so much of her job for her. Now Joe Anderson has gone ‘on better’ – or is it worse – by announcing that he will have not just one but THREE deputy mayors.

Joe Anderson, pictured with his three new deputies above, is now locked head to head with his former deputy Ann O’Byrne as senior Labour members on both sides of the row have resigned and called for others to be thrown out.