Liverpool is expected to abolish the position of elected mayor of the city later this month after the results of a public consultation were revealed.
The city council has been asking people for their views on how the city should be governed going forward and whether the position of directly elected mayor should be removed after it was brought in 10 years ago. The council and its current mayor Joanne Anderson have been criticised for not holding a full referendum on the matter having previously pledged to do so.
The council has now revealed the results and it is a mixed picture. Only around 4% of the city's population took part in the consultation and of that number, around 41% (4,709 respondents) said they would like to stick with the elected mayoral position. While the mayoral model came out on top of the three individual options offered, the result does mean a majority of those responding opted to remove the position, but within that group there was a split between possible governance options.
