In a little more than three months' time, voters across Liverpool will go to the polls for a series of all out elections to choose their new council.
Amid the lingering cloud of the Max Caller Report of 2021 and the financial bind the local authority finds itself in, nobody is under any illusion that May’s ballots mark a difficult election for the city.
However, if you hadn’t been paying attention, the electoral process could have just got a little bit more difficult for some. With boundary changes to how the city is laid out and the number of councillors to vote for in each ward already being implemented at this year’s city elections, the UK Government has added another layer of potential confusion and controversy to proceedings.