Nobody would doubt that Merseyside is a Labour region.
All five of Liverpool's parliamentary constituencies are represented by Labour MPs, while Southport's MP Damien Moore provides the only blue on Merseyside's electoral map. Having faced brutal spending cuts over the past decade after struggling through the Thatcher government in the 1980s, there is limited love for the Conservative Party on Merseyside - on the whole, the region is as firm a Labour stronghold as it gets,
Though Mr Moore is the only Conservative MP in the region, there are plenty of Tory representatives in the House of Commons who were born in or have links to this region. Unsurprisingly, these politicians had to move away in order to get elected.
