From May 2023 the city of Liverpool will no longer be led by a directly elected mayor.
The mayoralty, which was brought in from 2012 onwards, will cease to exist after a vote by city councillors in the town hall last week. It will be replaced by the leader and cabinet model that was in place in Liverpool before the switch to a directly elected mayor a decade ago.
That was a controversial choice, voted through by the city's majority Labour group of councillors, despite the leader and cabinet model coming bottom of the pile in a recent public consultation on how the city should be run.
