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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

How Southport could change if it left Merseyside

This week the news broke that MPs were making a bid for Southport to leave Sefton to join West Lancashire.

The news came as Southport MP Damien Moore and West Lancs MP Rosie Cooper launched a joint bid to have the boundaries changed so that the seaside town rejoined Lancashire to join up with neighbours Skelmersdale and Ormskirk. A letter sent to Secretary of State For Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Michael Gove MP outlined the pair's desire for the seaside resort to switch allegiance.

The move has been a long-debated subject ever since the boundaries changed in 1974 with people in Southport being divided over the possibility of a return to Lancashire. Despite years of debate, it hasn't been highlighted what will actually change.

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