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Liverpool Liberal Democrats
LeaderCarl Cashman
Deputy LeaderLiz Makinson[1]
Statutory Deputy LeaderRobert McAllister-Bell[2]
FoundedMarch 3, 1988; 38 years ago (1988-03-03)
Merger ofLiberal Party
Social Democratic Party
IdeologyLiberalism
Social liberalism
Community politics
National affiliationLiberal Democrats
Regional affiliationNorth West Liberal Democrats
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Liverpool City Council
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Website
liverlibdems.org.uk

The Liverpool Liberal Democrats are the local party of the Liberal Democrats that operates in Liverpool, Merseyside. It is a part of the North West regional party[3] of the English Liberal Democrats,[4] which is the state party within the Liberal Democrats that operates in England.

The local party developed from the earlier Liverpool Liberal Party and contests elections to Liverpool City Council. It has historically been one of the primary parties of local government in the city,[5] and traces its modern origins to 1962 when Cyril Carr won a seat in Church ward.[6]

Liverpool Liberals developed intensive local campaigning methods during the 1960 and 1970s, including regular 'Focus' newsletters and street canvassing.[7][8] Trevor Jones[9] was a central party figure during this period alongside David Alton, who won the 1979 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election.[10]

The Liberals first became the largest party on Liverpool City Council in 1973,[11] and led the council again from 1978 to 1983.[12] Following the 1988 merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democrats gained overall control in 1998 under Mike Storey,[13] holding it until 2010.[14]

After a sharp decline during the 2010–15 Coalition years,[15] the party recovered under Richard Kemp and Carl Cashman.[16] It currently holds 13 of the council's 85 seats and is the official opposition.[17]

History on Liverpool City Council

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Liberal tradition in Liverpool

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Liverpool had a Liberal and Whig tradition during the nineteenth century, with Liberal support in the city linked to its mercantile economy, religious nonconformity and Irish political questions.[5][18][19] During much of the twentieth century, particularly between 1945 and 1972, municipal politics in Liverpool was dominated by the Conservative Party.[20][21] The Tories' decline began in 1973,[11] and by 1987 – when they won four seats[22] – they had become "irrelevant".[23] By the late twentieth century, changing social and political conditions had weakened the traditional alignment of Protestant voters aligned with the Conservatives and Catholic voters with the Labour Party.[24][25]

Liberal revival

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The Liberal Party logo (pre-1988)
The Liberal Party logo (pre-1988)

The modern Liberal revival in Liverpool is generally dated to 1962, when Cyril Carr[26] won the council seat of Church ward for the Liberals,[27] initially serving as one of the two Liberal councillors before the arrival of Trevor Jones.[6][28] Carr, Jones and other Liverpool Liberals developed intensive ward campaigning methods based on regular newsletters, canvassing and local casework around this time.[7][29]

Jones became one of the central figures within the Liverpool Liberals during the 1960s and 1970s.[5][30] He was involved in the early development of community politics in the city, turning the party into a "successful electoral machine"[31] through the use of 'Focus' newsletters and sustained campaigning on highly local issues.[32] The tactics were later adopted more widely by party activists across the country.[33] Over 1972–73, Jones served as Liberal Party president[34] and Carr served as party chairman.[26]

The Liberal Party was Labour's principal challenger in Liverpool local government during the 1970s.[35] At the 1973 local elections, the Liberals won 48 of 99 seats[11] and became the largest party on (as it then was) Liverpool District Council.[36][35] The party formed the administration despite falling short of an outright majority.[37] Cyril Carr led the Liberal group on the new metropolitan council – and served as council chairman[36] – between April 1974 and January 1975.[26] He was succeeded as group leader by Bill Smyth,[38] who served as council leader between January 1975 and May 1976, until Labour took control of the administration.[39] The council remained closely contested over the following decade.[35]

David Alton

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David Alton (1979)
David Alton (1979)

David Alton was another prominent Liverpool Liberal during the 1970s.[40] He was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1972 for the Low Hill ward and later became deputy leader.[41] In 1979, he won the Liverpool Edge Hill by-election for the Liberals,[42][43] and later represented Liverpool Mossley Hill from its creation in 1983 until its abolition in 1997, when he retired from the House of Commons.[44] He has been a Crossbench life peer since 1997.[45][46]

Militant period

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The Liberals led the council under Trevor Jones between May 1978 to May 1983,[35] which included a coalition with Liverpool Conservatives.[12] After ward boundary changes in 1980, Labour overtook the Liberals by 40 seats to 38, while the Conservatives retained 21 seats. Following the 1980 poll, Liverpool Labour leader John Hamilton "refused to take office", citing the risk of being outvoted by the combined Liberal and Conservative members on council committees. As a result, the Liberals assumed control.[47]

During the 1980s, Liverpudlian politics was affected by the rise of the Militant tendency within the local Labour Party.[48] Labour gained control of the council in 1983,[49] and the Liberals became the main opposition party.[50][51] Jones was council leader during the Toxteth riots of July 1981 however,[9][52] and in response, the UK Government appointed Michael Heseltine as Minister for Merseyside to lead an urban regeneration programme.[53][54]

SDP–Liberal Alliance logo
SDP–Liberal Alliance logo

During this period, Liverpool Liberals contested some council elections as part of the Liberal–SDP Alliance, though tensions with local SDP candidates who stood against Liberal councillors complicated the national alliance arrangement in the city.[34] During the 1983 general election, Jones' refusal to stand aside for the SDP[55] resulted in Liverpool Broadgreen being one of only three UK constituencies where Liberal and SDP candidates stood against each other.[34]

Following the disqualification of 47 Militant councillors in March 1987,[56] Jones briefly led a temporary Liberal–SDP Alliance administration on the council between March–May 1987.[22][57][58] Labour consolidated control over the 1980s, though the Liberals and (from 1988) the Liberal Democrats maintained support across parts of Liverpool.[35]

Formation of the Liberal Democrats

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The Liberal Democrats were formed in 1988 following the national merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, initially under the name Social and Liberal Democrats before adopting the Liberal Democrats name.[59][60] Earlier, in 1975, Carr proposed renaming the Liberal Party as the 'Social Democrats', a suggestion taken up in the 1988 merger.[26]

During the 1990s, the local party rebuilt steadily. At the 1991 local elections, the Liberal Democrats won more votes overall than Labour,[61] but secured 27 seats compared with Labour's 62 under the first-past-the-post voting system.[35] Labour lost overall control of the council in 1992 when the party gained ten seats.[62] By 1996, the Liberal Democrats held 42 of 99 seats,[63] before gaining overall control in 1998.[13][35]

Council control (1998–2010)

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Mike Storey (2022)
Mike Storey (2022)

The Liberal Democrats regained control of Liverpool City Council in 1998,[64] winning 52 seats, and securing the party's first outright majority on the council.[65] Under the leadership of Mike Storey,[66][67] the party reached its electoral peak in 2000 with 69 of 99 councillors.[68] Labour gradually recovered during the 2000s, regaining overall control in 2010 under Joe Anderson.[14] During the party's period in office, the administration was associated with urban regeneration projects such as Liverpool One,[69] plus Liverpool's successful bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.[70][71][72] One study noted that the city's resurgence in the 2000s reversed the long-term decline of Merseyside, while regarding the question of Liberal Democrat credit for it as "neither here nor there".[73] During Storey's tenure, Liverpool secured UNESCO World Heritage Site status (as Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City) in 2004,[74] although this was revoked in 2021 when Joanne Anderson was Mayor of Liverpool.[75][76]

Results of the 2004 local elections in Liverpool
Results of the 2004 local elections in Liverpool

Having led the council since 1998, Storey resigned as council leader in November 2005 following a dispute over the departure of the council's chief executive.[77][78] In December 2005, he was succeeded by Warren Bradley,[79] who led the council when it retained the control in 2007,[80] and also when the party lost control in 2010.[14] Bradley resigned as group leader in April 2011 amid allegations of voter nomination fraud[81] and was subsequently banned from the Liberal Democrats.[82]

Bradley was succeeded by Paula Keaveney in May 2011,[83] the first woman to lead the Liverpool Liberal Democrats.[84] Keaveney lost her seat in the 2012 local elections,[85][86] in which the party failed to retain nine of the seats it was defending, leaving the Liverpool Liberal Democrats with ten councillors overall.[35][87]

Decline and recovery

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Liberal Democrat representation declined during the period of the national Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, which followed the 2010 general election and the formation of the Cameron–Clegg coalition. The party was reduced to 37 councillors in 2010[14] and lost eleven seats in 2011.[88] It declined further, with ten councillors remaining in 2012,[85] three in 2014[89] and two following the 2015 local elections.[15]

In March 2021, the UK Government appointed commissioners to oversee Liverpool City Council following an inspection that found multiple failures in the "dysfunctional" Labour-run administration.[90][91] The elected mayor Joe Anderson was arrested in December 2020 as part of an anti-corruption investigation.[92] Government intervention continued to be in place until March 2025.[93]

Under the leadership of Richard Kemp and later Carl Cashman, the party subsequently rebuilt its representation through campaigning in predominantly south Liverpool wards.[94][95][96] Between 2016 and 2023, the party group grew from 4 to 15 councillors.[16] It became the official opposition on Liverpool City Council in 2023 under Cashman, following a boundary review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. This reduced the council from 90 to 85 seats across 64 new wards.[97] Labour's Liam Robinson has been council leader since May 2023,[98] and the next elections for Liverpool City Council are scheduled for May 2027.[99][100]

Electoral performance

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Liberal Democrat conference (Bournemouth, 2019)
Liberal Democrat conference (Bournemouth, 2019)

In addition to Liverpool City Council elections, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats also fielded candidates in the elections for the 1974–86 Merseyside County Council, the 2012–23 directly elected Mayor of Liverpool, and – from 2017 – the Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.

Merseyside County Council

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In the three elections to Merseyside County Council, the Liberal Party won 19 seats in 1973 with 21.8% of the vote, falling to 6 seats in 1977 with 16.3% of the vote, before recovering to 15 seats and 24.1% of the vote in 1981.[101] Along with the other metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council, it was abolished in March 1986.[102]

Mayor of Liverpool

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Richard Kemp stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of Liverpool in 2012, in 2016 – when he came second with 21.1% of the vote – and in 2021.[103][104][105] Joe Anderson was mayor between 2012–20 and Joanne Anderson held office between 2021–23. Wendy Simon was acting mayor between December 2020 and the May 2021 election, following Joe Anderson's bribery scandal.[106]

When Liverpool City Council voted to abolish the role in 2023,[107][108] Kemp described the city's mayoral experience as a "disaster", having consistently opposed the existence of the role.[109][110] Earlier, the council's 2022 consultation on governance models saw only 3% public participation, with the ruling Labour group proceeding with a leader-and-cabinet system despite 40% of respondents favouring retaining the directly-elected mayor.[111]

Mayor of the Liverpool City Region

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Carl Cashman (2025)
Carl Cashman (2025)

Carl Cashman stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in the inaugural 2017 election for Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.[112][113] David Newman stood in 2021, coming third with 10.3% of the vote.[114][115] Robert McAllister-Bell stood in 2024.[116][117] Steve Rotheram has been the Labour metro-mayor since 2017.

Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner

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The Liberal Democrats stood candidates in all four Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections. Christopher Carubia stood in 2016 and 2024,[118][119] Paula Keaveney in 2012,[120] and Kris Brown in 2021 – receiving 16.53% of the vote and coming third.[121] In November 2025, the UK Government announced that PCCs would be abolished at the end of their current terms in 2028.[122][123] Liverpool does not have a Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner as its local fire service is governed through the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority.[124]

Lord Mayor of Liverpool

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Several Liberal and Liberal Democrat councillors have served as the ceremonial Lord Mayor of Liverpool, including Cyril Carr (1981),[125] Doreen Jones (1979–80 and 1987),[126] Frank Doran (1996–97),[127] Eddie Clein (2000–01),[128] Paul Clark (2007–08),[129] Mike Storey (2009–10),[130] Erica Kemp (2014–15)[131] and Richard Kemp (2024–25).[132]

UK Parliament

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House of Commons

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David Alton (1979)
David Alton (1979)

At the 1979 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, the Liberal candidate David Alton won the seat from Labour with 64.1% of the vote and a swing of 30.2%.[10] He represented Liverpool Edge Hill from 1979–83 and Liverpool Mossley Hill from 1983–97.[133] Following the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Alton sat as a Liberal Democrat MP until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1997.[134]

The party has not held a Liverpool constituency since 1997. In Liverpool Wavertree, Liberal Democrat candidates remained competitive for a period after Alton's departure. Richard Kemp received 21.5% of the vote in 1997, coming second. Christopher Newby won 24.4% of the vote in 2001, also coming second.[135] Colin Eldridge won 37.7% in 2005 and 34.2% in 2010, with the party placing second on each occasion.[136][137][138] Support subsequently declined, with Leo Evans receiving 6% of the vote in 2015 and placing fourth.[139] Kemp stood again, improving the party's vote share to 6.5% in 2017 and 9.3% in 2019, placing third on both occasions.[140][141] In 2024, Robert McAllister-Bell won 6.9% of the vote under revised constituency boundaries, placing fourth.[142][143]

The Labour/Co-op MP for Liverpool Wavertree between 2010–24, Luciana Berger, was a member of the Liberal Democrats between 2019 and 2023.[144] She is now a Labour life peer.[145]

House of Lords

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Mike Storey (2015)
Mike Storey (2015)

In 1997, David Alton was appointed to the House of Lords as Lord Alton of Liverpool,[146] sitting as a Crossbencher – and not with the Liberal Democrats – marking a break with the party he had represented on Merseyside for 25 years.[46]

Mike Storey was appointed to the House of Lords in 2011, sitting as Lord Storey of Childwall on the Liberal Democrat benches.[147] In 2025, Storey was elected by fellow peers as co-deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords,[148] having previously been its education spokesperson since 2015.[149][66]

Campaigning style

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Liverpool has been identified as a case of post-war Liberal revival, with the party's success attributed to its development of community-based (or "bottom up") campaigning methods in the city.[5] Community politics, the style of intensive local campaigning used by Liverpool Liberals from the 1960s onwards, was later adopted more widely by the Liberal Democrats across Britain.[8]

Mike Storey described the local party's "proactive" approach as based on the belief that it could compete in any ward of the city.[29] He also described the importance of retaining community links after taking power, warning that "it is so easy for an incoming administration to get distracted from the local community who are their power base".[150]

Prominent members

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Richard Kemp (2018)
Richard Kemp (2018)

In 2018, Richard Kemp estimated that over 250 people had served as Liberal, Liberal–SDP Alliance or Liberal Democrat councillors on Liverpool City Council since 1962.[7]

Richard Kemp (awarded a CBE in 2011) has served as a councillor since 1975,[151] and Mike Storey (CBE, 2002) has served multiple terms since first being elected in 1973.[152][153] Other long serving councillors from the party include Barbara Mace,[154] Frank Doran (MBE, 2016), Paul Clark,[129] Erica Kemp (CBE, 2015),[155] Trevor Jones – who was knighted in 1981[156] – and Flo Clucas (OBE, 2005).[157] Clucas also represented the Liberal Democrats on the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) from 2001, becoming leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe–CoR group in 2008.[158][159]

Chris Davies
Chris Davies (2014)

Chris Davies, a Liberal councillor for the Abercromby ward between 1980 to 1984, served as the Liberal Democrat MEP for North West England from 1999 to 2014.[160] Rosie Cooper was a Liberal then Liberal Democrat city councillor between 1973 and 1999, when she defected to Labour. She was the Labour MP for West Lancashire between 2005–22.[161]

Headquarters

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The party established its headquarters at "The Garmoyle" on Smithdown Road, Liverpool in the 1920s.[7] It currently operates from the city's Wavertree Technology Park area.[162]

Current council group

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As of June 2026, the party holds 13 seats on Liverpool City Council, and is the official opposition.[17]

Liverpool City Council Liberal Democrat group (June 2026)
Councillor Ward Group role
Carl Cashman[163] Church Leader of the Opposition;[164] Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group; Member of Appointments & Disciplinary Committee
Liz Makinson Calderstones Deputy Leader; Member of Children & Young People Scrutiny Committee; Shadow Cabinet Member for City Health, Equality and Adult Social Care Services[165]
Robert McAllister-Bell Mossley Hill Statutory Deputy Leader; Member of Culture & Economy Scrutiny Committee; Shadow Member for a Business Friendly City[166]
Malcolm Kelly Woolton Village Group Whip;[164] Member of Licensing & Gambling Committee
Richard Clein Grassendale & Cressington Chair of Audit Committee
Kris Brown Gateacre Member of Sustainable, Safe & Thriving Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee
Richard Kemp[167] Penny Lane Member of Constitution & Standards Committee
Andrew Makinson Allerton Member of Finance & Resources Scrutiny Committee; Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance and Council Honesty[168]
Pat Moloney Childwall Member of Planning Committee; Member of Education, Skills & Employment Scrutiny Committee
Josie Mullen Much Woolton & Hunts Cross Member of Audit Committee; Member of Adult Social Care & Health Scrutiny Committee
Laurence Sidorczuk Wavertree Village Member of Culture & Economy Scrutiny Committee; Shadow Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Major Events[169]
Mike Storey[170] Childwall Chair of Education, Skills & Employment Scrutiny Committee (2023–26); Shadow Cabinet Member for Education and Children's Social Services[171]
Rebecca Turner Waterfront South Member of Sustainable, Safe & Thriving Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee; Shadow Cabinet Member for the Environment and a Cleaner City[172]

Following the 2023 local elections, Mirna Juarez defected to sit as an independent in August 2024,[173] while Josie Mullen won the Much Woolton and Hunts Cross ward in a January 2025 by-election following the resignation of Dave Aizlewood.[174][175] The group was subsequently reduced to 13 members following a March 2026 by-election loss of the Aigburth ward to the Green Party after the resignation of Dave Antrobus.[176]

Liberal Party (1989–)

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A separate Liberal Party, established in 1989, is unaffiliated with the Liverpool Liberal Democrats and has also maintained a presence on Liverpool City Council. The party was established by councillors who declined to join the 1988 merger. As of June 2026, it holds three seats, and is led by Steve Radford who has been a city councillor since 1984.[177][178]

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