It can be easy to ask yourself ‘why does Liverpool have two Mayors?’ when you consider the political leadership of the city. It’s even more complicated when the last two leaders of the city council have shared a surname.
For the past five years, Steve Rotheram has been shaping what the Liverpool City Region - a mix of six local authority areas - could and should look like. Under the title of Metro Mayor, the former MP and incidentally Lord Mayor, has set about attempting to reshape the wider Merseyside region’s transport network, housing and economic development.
A year into his second term, having comfortably been re-elected last year, Mr Rotheram sat down to discuss a busy 2022 and where 2023 might lead. Already there are major changes afoot, with the expected arrival of brand new Merseyrail trains onto the network.
