Steve Rotheram on the pressure to deliver and not be seen as a token Scouser
After a thumping election win, the Liverpool City Region Mayor knows the pressure is now on to deliver - he tells Political Editor Liam Thorp how he intends to do that
Steve Rotheram is a man on a mission.
He s just secured a thumping mandate to begin a second term as the Liverpool City Region Mayor and knows the pressure is now on to deliver.
It is well documented that Mayor Rotheram had a tough start to his new role, difficult relations with then Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson and a poorly equipped new office led to a slow start.
Unshackled and now backed, this is Steve Rotheram s moment
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Emily Spurrell elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside
Former deputy storms to victory for Labour
16:07, 8 MAY 2021
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Emily Spurrell is the new Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside (Image: James Maloney/Liverpool Echo)
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Labour s Emily Spurrell has been comfortably elected as the new Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Merseyside.
Granting a second independence referendum in Scotland would be “irresponsible”, according to the Environment Secretary, as counting got under way again to determine whether the SNP has won a majority in Holyrood.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to plough ahead with plans for a follow-up border poll as her party’s chances of taking more than 65 seats in the Scottish Parliament looked likely to go down to the wire as counting continued on Saturday.
With the SNP leader’s strategy putting her on a collision course with the Prime Minister, who has insisted he will not support an “irresponsible” referendum, senior minister George Eustice said it is the wrong time to be considering another plebiscite.
Fears over dangerous e-scooter riders after two near misses
Mr Walker said one of the riders clipped his white cane when he was about to cross the road
Tom Walker is a campaigner on issues affecting blind and partially sighted people. (Pic Andrew Teebay).
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