Wirral Council’s Labour group suffered yet more losses last night, leaving it as the largest party but only by a slender margin.
The party lost two seats to the Green Party and one to the Conservatives, meaning it lost one overall after a gain from a councillor who defected from Labour after being elected in Rock Ferry in 2018 and recently standing down, and another gain in a vacant seat in Leasowe and Moreton East. This may seem like another disastrous night for the party, but there is another way of looking at it.
While the result leaves Labour on just 26 of Wirral’s 66 seats, just two above the Tories, with the Greens on nine and the Lib Dems on six, there were some other encouraging numbers for the party. Labour scored 42% of the vote, comfortably beating the Conservatives on 26%, followed by the Greens on 19% and the Lib Dems on 12%.
