The local elections are just a couple of weeks away and in Liverpool everything is on the line.
The city's elections could be the most significant, chaotic and unpredictable in decades as a raft of reforms arrive at a time when government commissioners still loom large over the Cunard building. The city's electoral map is being completely redrawn.
Where it was previously made up of 30 wards, with three councillors in each ward, there will soon be 64 wards made up of mainly much smaller city wards that will be represented by just one councillor. The rise in smaller, single-member wards at this election is significant. It means that smaller parties and independent councillors will have a greater chance of upsetting the odds and beating some of the larger parties to seats.
