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{{Short description|Local government body in England}}
{{For|the local government area of New South Wales known as Liverpool City Council|City of Liverpool (New South Wales)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox legislature
| name = Liverpool City Council
| logo = Liverpool City Council Logo.svg
| logo_caption = Corporate logo
| logo_res = 120
| coa_pic = Coat of arms of Liverpool City Council.svg
| coa_caption = [[Coat of arms of Liverpool]]
| coa_res = 
| coa_alt = Arms of Liverpool City Council
| house_type = Metropolitan borough council
| jurisdiction = 
| leader1_type = [[Lord Mayor of Liverpool|Lord Mayor]]
| leader1 = Barbara Murray
| party1 = <br/>[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| election1 = 14 May 2025<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 14 May 2025 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=315&MId=20883 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref>
| leader2_type = [[Leader of the council|Leader]]
| leader2 = [[Liam Robinson (politician)|Liam Robinson]]
| party2 = <br/>[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| election2 = 17 May 2023<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/labour-chief-vows-finish-job-26856316 | title=Labour chief vows to 'finish the job' of fixing Liverpool Council | date=5 May 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 17 May 2023 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=315&MId=20275 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=4 May 2024}}</ref>
| leader3_type = [[Chief Executive]]
| leader3 = Andrew Lewis
| party3 = <!-- Non-political role -->
| election3 = June 2023<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whelan |first1=Dan |title=Liverpool CEO reflects on six months in post |url=https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/interview-liverpool-ceo-reflects-on-six-months-in-post/ |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=Place North West |date=29 November 2023}}</ref>
| seats = 85 councillors
| structure1 = 
| structure1_res = 250
| structure1_alt = Liverpool City Council composition
| political_groups1 = ;Administration (61)
: {{Color box|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (61)
;Other parties (24)
: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] (14)}}
: {{Color box|{{party color|Green Party of England and Wales}}|border=darkgray}} [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green]] (3)
: {{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Party (UK, 1989)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Liberal Party (UK, 1989)|Liberal]] (3)
: {{Color box|{{party color|Your Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Your Party (UK)|Your Party]] (3)
: {{Color box|{{party color|Independent politician}}|border=darkgray}} [[Independent politician|Independent]] (1)
| committees1 = 
| committees2 = 
| joint_committees = [[Liverpool City Region Combined Authority]]
| term_length = 4 years
| voting_system1 = First-past-the-post
| voting_system2 = 
| last_election1 = [[2023 Liverpool City Council election|4 May 2023]]
| next_election1 = 6 May 2027
| session_room = Town Hall, Liverpool.jpg
| session_res = 240px
| meeting_place = [[Liverpool Town Hall|Town Hall]], High Street, [[Liverpool]], L2{{nbsp}}3SW
| motto = {{langx |la|Deus Nobis Haec Otia Fecit |translation=God has granted us this ease}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
| footnotes = 
}}
'''Liverpool City Council''' is the [[Local government in England|local authority]] for the [[City status in the United Kingdom|city]] of [[Liverpool]] in [[Merseyside]], England. Liverpool has had a local authority since 1207, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a [[metropolitan borough council]]. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the [[Liverpool City Region Combined Authority]] since 2014.

The council has been under [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] majority control since 2010. It meets at [[Liverpool Town Hall]] and has its main offices at the [[Cunard Building]].

==History==
Liverpool was an [[ancient borough]], having been granted its first [[Municipal charter|charter]] by [[John of England|King John]] in 1207.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Appendix 4 |date=1835 |page=2691 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHBTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2691 |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 |date=1911 |pages=1–4 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp1-4#h3-s5 |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> It had a [[Mayors in England|mayor]] from at least 1292.<ref name=mayors>{{cite web |title=Former Mayors and Lord Mayors |url=https://www.liverpooltownhall.co.uk/former-mayors-lord-mayors-city-liverpool/ |website=Liverpool Town Hall |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref>

===Municipal borough===
Liverpool was reformed to become a [[municipal borough]] in 1836 under the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]], which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country. It was then governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Liverpool', generally known as the corporation or town council. As part of the same reforms, the borough boundaries were enlarged to match the larger [[Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool parliamentary constituency]], which had been expanded in 1832 to include the neighbouring parishes of [[Everton, Liverpool|Everton]] and [[Kirkdale, Liverpool|Kirkdale]] and part of [[West Derby]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Youngs |first1=Frederic |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England |date=1991 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0861931270 |page=680}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Boundaries Act |date=1832 |page=349 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA349 |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Municipal Corporations Act |date=1835 |page=457 |url=https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk35britgoog/page/456/mode/2up?q=Liverpool |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> The corporation created [[Liverpool City Police|a police force]] in 1836.

[[File:Municipal Buildings, Liverpool.jpg|thumb|left|[[Municipal Buildings, Liverpool|Municipal Buildings, Dale Street]]: Council's main offices 1868–2016|242x242px]]
Liverpool was granted [[city status in the United Kingdom|city status]] in 1880, after which the corporation was also known as the city council. When elected county councils were established in 1889, Liverpool was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it became a [[county borough]], independent from the new [[Lancashire County Council]], whilst remaining part of the [[Ceremonial counties of England#Geographical counties 1889–1974|geographical county]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref name=VoB>{{cite web |title=Liverpool Municipal Borough / County Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10027317 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref> In 1893 the city was granted the right to appoint a [[lord mayor]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 |date=1911 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=38–41 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp38-41 |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref>

The city boundaries were enlarged on several occasions, notably gaining [[Wavertree]], [[Walton, Merseyside|Walton]] and parts of [[Toxteth]] and [[West Derby]] in 1895, [[Fazakerley]] in 1905, [[Allerton, Liverpool|Allerton]], [[Childwall]] and [[Woolton]] in 1913, the rest of West Derby in 1928, and [[Speke]] in 1932.<ref name=VoB/>

Liverpool's first female councillor was [[Eleanor Rathbone]], elected in 1909. Eighteen years later, [[Margaret Beavan]] became the first female Lord Mayor in 1927.<ref name=mayors/>

===Metropolitan borough===
The city was reformed to become a [[metropolitan district]] in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. It kept the same boundaries as the former county borough (which had last been adjusted in 1956) and became one of five metropolitan districts within the new [[metropolitan county]] of Merseyside.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|schedule=1|access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref> Liverpool's [[Borough status in the United Kingdom|borough]] and city statuses and its lord mayoralty passed to the reformed district and its council.<ref>{{cite web |title=District Councils and Boroughs |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/mar/28/district-councils-and-boroughs#S5CV0871P0_19740328_CWA_145 |website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |access-date=30 May 2024 |date=28 March 1974}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=46334|page=7419|date=28 June 1974}}</ref>

From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by [[Merseyside County Council]]. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Merseyside's five borough councils, including Liverpool, with some services provided through joint committees.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1985|year=1985|chapter=51|access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref>

During the 1980s, the [[Militant in Liverpool|Militant group]] gained control of Liverpool's Labour Party. Under their leadership the council attempted to challenge the national government on several issues, including [[rate-capping rebellion|refusing to set a budget]] in 1985. The leadership of the national Labour Party was drawn into the controversy, ultimately expelling members of Militant, including the council's deputy leader, [[Derek Hatton]], in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Naughtie |first1=James |title=Labour in Bournemouth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/century/1980-1989/Story/0,6051,108249,00.html |access-date=7 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=2 October 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=On this day, 12 June 1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_2511000/2511839.stm |access-date=7 June 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref>

In 2012 the council introduced the position of [[Mayor of Liverpool]] as a [[Directly elected mayors in England|directly elected mayor]] to serve as the council's political leader instead of having a [[leader of the council]] chosen by the councillors. The position was separate from the more ceremonial role of the Lord Mayor. The directly elected mayor position was abolished in 2023 and the position of leader of the council was reinstated.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vinter |first1=Robyn |title=Liverpool council votes to scrap three-mayor system |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/21/liverpool-council-votes-to-scrap-three-mayor-system |access-date=8 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=21 July 2022}}</ref>

Since 2014 the council has been a member of the [[Liverpool City Region Combined Authority]], which has been led by the directly elected [[Mayor of the Liverpool City Region]] since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across the region, but Liverpool City Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority Order 2014|year=2014|number=865|access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Understand how your council works |url=https://www.gov.uk/understand-how-your-council-works |website=gov.uk |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

The council's chief executive, Ged Fitzgerald, was suspended in 2017 and subsequently resigned in 2018 following an investigation by [[Lancashire Constabulary]] into financial irregularities relating to a joint project between [[Lancashire County Council]] and [[BT Group|British Telecom (BT)]] during Fitzgerald's tenure as chief executive of the county council.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-41313624|title=Liverpool City Council boss Ged Fitzgerald suspended amid fraud probe|work=BBC News|date=18 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-council-chief-ged-fitzgerald-14656399|title=Liverpool council chief Ged Fitzgerald RESIGNS with immediate effect|first=Liam|last=Thorp|date=14 May 2018|website=Liverpool Echo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-council-chief-executive-ged-13074151|title=Liverpool council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald arrested|first=Marc|last=Waddington|date=22 May 2017|website=Liverpool Echo}}</ref> The police investigation subsequently widened to investigate alleged criminality at the city council and the Merseyside pension fund too. In 2020, it was reported that the city council's accounts since 2015 had not been signed off by its auditors on account of the 'complex ongoing police investigation'.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-councils-accounts-not-signed-18487490|title=Liverpool council's accounts not signed off for five years|first=Tom|last=Duffy|date=28 June 2020|website=Liverpool Echo}}</ref>
[[File:Town Hall Liverpool council chamber.jpg|thumb|265x265px|Liverpool City Council Chamber in Town Hall]]
In December 2020, the elected mayor, [[Joe Anderson (politician)|Joe Anderson]], was arrested as part of an anti-corruption investigation. The Labour Party suspended Anderson on news of his arrest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/05/cooperating-fully-police-liverpool-mayor-joe-anderson-arrest-fraud|title=I'm cooperating fully with police, says Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson|date=5 December 2020|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-55192375|title=Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson arrested in bribery probe|work=BBC News|date=12 April 2020}}</ref> He did not resign as mayor but stood back from active duties, handing effective control to the deputy mayor, [[Wendy Simon]], for the remainder of his term of office to May 2021. As of April 2024 no charges had been brought against him, but the investigation had yet to conclude.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Humphries |first1=Jonny |last2=Hamilton |first2=Claire |title=Ex-mayor 'like a recluse' since police probe |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n13x5gxvzo |access-date=8 June 2024 |work=BBC News |date=19 April 2024}}</ref>

On 24 March 2021, the [[Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government]], [[Robert Jenrick]], announced that he was appointing commissioners to oversee some of the authority's functions for at least 3 years. This was following an investigation, commissioned in December 2020 that found there were "multiple apparent failures" and a "deeply concerning picture of mismanagement" in the council.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Secretary of State statement: Liverpool City Council|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/secretary-of-state-statement-liverpool-city-council|access-date=2021-03-24|website=GOV.UK|date=24 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite news|date=2021-03-24|title=Liverpool City Council: Commissioners to oversee authority|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-56507888|access-date=2021-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/972756/Liverpool_Best_Value_inspection_report.pdf|title=Liverpool City Council: Best Value inspection report (publishing.service.gov.uk)|accessdate=15 August 2023}}</ref>

The commissioners remained in post until June 2024. Following improvements in the council's performance and management, the intervention was then scaled back to less direct supervision, due to last until March 2025.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coleman |first1=Jenny |title=Liverpool City Council handed back decision-making powers |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz5dx73j3m1o |access-date=7 June 2024 |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2024}}</ref>

==Governance==
Liverpool City Council provides [[metropolitan borough]] services. Some strategic functions in the area are provided by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority; the leader of Liverpool City Council sits on the combined authority as Liverpool's representative.<ref>{{cite web |title=Committee details |url=https://liverpoolcityregion-ca.moderngov.co.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=364 |website=Liverpool City Region Combined Authority |access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref> There are no [[civil parish]]es in the city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

===Political control===
The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the council was run by the Conservatives. Labour councillors were first elected to the council in 1905, but Liverpool was one of the last major cities in the UK in which the Labour Party gained control, which first occurred in 1955.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jeffery|first=David|date=2017-08-01|title=The strange death of Tory Liverpool: Conservative electoral decline in Liverpool, 1945–1996|journal=British Politics|language=en|volume=12|issue=3|pages=386–407|doi=10.1057/s41293-016-0032-6|issn=1746-918X|doi-access=free}}</ref>

'''Municipal borough'''
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2|Party in control!!Years
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Whigs (British political party)}}||1835–1841
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}||1841–1892
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}}||1892–1895
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}||1895–1953
|-
|{{Party name with colour|No overall control}}||1953–1955
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||1955–1961
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}||1961–1963
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||1963–1967
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}||1967–1971
|-
|{{Party name with colour|No overall control}}||1971–1972
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||1972–1974
|}

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows:<ref name=compositions>{{cite web |title=Compositions Calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/composition_calc.html |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=The Elections Centre |publisher=University of Exeter}} (Put "Liverpool" in search box to see specific results.)</ref><ref name=gain>{{cite news| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/council/html/3714.stm | title = Liverpool | access-date = 2010-05-07 | work = [[BBC News Online]] | date=2009-04-19}}</ref><ref name=defection>{{cite news| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7379008.stm | title = Defection confusion in Liverpool | access-date = 2010-02-17 | date = 2008-05-02 | work = [[BBC News Online]]}}</ref>

'''Metropolitan borough'''
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2|Party in control!!Years
|-
|{{Party name with colour|No overall control}}||1974–1983
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||1983–1992
|-
|{{Party name with colour|No overall control}}||1992–1996
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||1996–1998
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}||1998–2010
|-
|{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}||2010–present
|}

===Leadership===
The role of [[Lord Mayor of Liverpool]] is largely ceremonial. Political leadership is instead provided by the [[leader of the council]]. Between 2012 and 2023 the council had a directly elected [[Mayor of Liverpool]] (a separate post from the Lord Mayor) instead of a leader. The directly elected mayor position was abolished in 2023 and the position of leader reinstated. The leaders since 1918 have been:

'''County Borough leaders'''
{| class=wikitable
! Councillor !! colspan=2|Party !! From !! To
|-
| [[Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet|Charles Petrie]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir C. Petrie: A surprise resignation from city council |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19181104&page=3 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=4 November 1918 |page=3}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right| || align=right|4 Nov 1918
|-
| [[Archibald Salvidge]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Archibald Savidge elected Tory leader in the city council today |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19181118&page=3 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=18 November 1918 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Sir A. Salvidge |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000649%2F19281212&page=7 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Post and Mercury |date=12 December 1928 |pages=7, 9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Council tribute to Sir A. Salvidge |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000771%2F19281220&page=7 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Evening Express |date=20 December 1928 |page=7}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|18 Nov 1918 || align=right|11 Dec 1928
|-
| Thomas White<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir T. White elected council leader: Unanimity at today's meeting |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19290107&page=9 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=7 January 1929 |page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The passing of Sir Thomas White |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19380125&page=12 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=25 January 1938}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|7 Jan 1929 || align=right|25 Jan 1938
|-
| Alfred Shennan<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservatives in City Council: Alderman Shennan to be the leader |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19380204&page=16 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=4 February 1938 |page=16}}</ref><ref name=IW28May1955>{{cite news |title=100 years of Tory rule ends in Liverpool |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004159%2F19550528&page=5 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Irish Weekly |date=28 May 1955 |location=Belfast |page=5}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|Feb 1938 || align=right|May 1955
|-
| Jack Braddock<ref name=IW28May1955/><ref>{{cite news |title=Tory rule in Liverpool |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19610512&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=12 May 1961 |page=1}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1955 || align=right|May 1961
|-
| Maxwell Entwistle<ref>{{cite news |title=Tories take control of council |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19610525&page=9 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=25 May 1961 |pages=1, 9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Labour back with majority of 12 in city council |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19630510&page=10 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=10 May 1963 |page=1}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1961 || align=right|May 1963
|-
| Jack Braddock<ref>{{cite news |title=Alderman Braddock at helm again |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19630514&page=7 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=14 May 1963 |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Alderman John Braddock dies after giving toast to art exhibition |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19631113&page=12 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=13 November 1963 |page=12}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1963 || align=right|12 Nov 1963
|-
| [[William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston|Bill Sefton]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Councillor W.  H. Sefton to lead city Labour group |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19631126&page=7 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=26 November 1963 |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Liverpool falls to the Tory steamroller |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19670512&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=12 May 1967 |page=1}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|Nov 1963 || align=right|May 1967
|-
| [[Harold Steward]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brough |first1=Harold |title=Liverpool comes first |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19670512&page=16 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=12 May 1967 |page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Craig |first1=Ian |title=Labour split up city's top jobs |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19720516&page=3 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=16 May 1972 |page=3}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1967 || align=right|May 1972
|-
| [[William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston|Bill Sefton]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Craig |first1=Ian |title=Inner cabinet for the city |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19720505&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=5 May 1972 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=Independent12Sep2001/> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1972 || align=right|31 Mar 1974
|}
The last leader of the council before the 1974 reforms, Bill Sefton, went on to be the first leader of [[Merseyside County Council#Leadership|Merseyside County Council]].<ref name=Independent12Sep2001>{{cite news |title=Lord Sefton of Garston |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-sefton-of-garston-9272629.html |access-date=20 July 2025 |work=The Independent |date=12 September 2001}}</ref>

'''Metropolitan Borough leaders'''
{| class=wikitable
! Councillor !! colspan=2|Party !! From !! To
|-
| [[Cyril Carr]]<ref name=LE22Jan1975>{{cite news |last1=Craig |first1=Ian |title=Carr gives up city council leadership |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19750122&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=22 January 1975 |page=1}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}} || align=right|1 Apr 1974 || align=right|22 Jan 1975
|-
| Bill Smyth<ref name=LE22Jan1975/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Craig |first1=Ian |title=Liberals lose city and chief |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19760507&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=7 May 1976 |page=1}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}} || align=right|Jan 1975 || align=right|May 1976
|-
| [[John Hamilton (Liverpool)|John Hamilton]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hope |first1=David |title=The Labour minority set about their ruling task |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19760519&page=17 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=19 May 1976 |page=17}}</ref><ref name=LDP17May1978/> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|18 May 1976 || align=right|May 1978
|-
| [[Trevor Jones (British politician)|Trevor Jones]]<ref name=LDP17May1978>{{cite news |title=Liberal youth control city |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005475%2F19780517&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=17 May 1978 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=LE6May1983/> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1978 || align=right|May 1983
|-
| [[John Hamilton (Liverpool)|John Hamilton]]<ref name=LE6May1983>{{cite news |last1=Phelps |first1=Peter |title=Jubilant Labour's victory romp: Liberals count cost of defeat |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19830506&page=10 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=6 May 1983 |page=10}}</ref><ref name=LE21Nov1986/> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1983 || align=right|Nov 1986
|-
| Tony Byrne<ref name=LE21Nov1986>{{cite news |title=We'll tame rebels yet |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19861121&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=21 November 1986 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=LE13Mar1987/> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|Nov 1986 || align=right|Mar 1987
|-
| [[Trevor Jones (British politician)|Trevor Jones]]<ref name=LE13Mar1987>{{cite news |last1=Watson |first1=Janine |title=Bye, bye Bond, hello Mister Mayor! |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19870313&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=13 March 1987 |pages=1, 3}}</ref><ref name=Watson/> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK)}} || align=right|Mar 1987 || align=right|May 1987
|-
| Harry Rimmer<ref name=Watson>{{cite news |last1=Watson |first1=Janine |title=A new regime, but squabbling still goes on |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19870520&page=15 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=20 May 1987 |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Oldham |first1=Peter |title=City leader quits over cash crisis |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005474%2F19871006&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=6 October 1987 |page=1}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1987 || align=right|5 Oct 1987
|-
| Keva Coombes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hope |first1=David |title='New style' Coombes at city helm |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005474%2F19871009&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=9 October 1987 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=Hope/> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|Oct 1987 || align=right|May 1990
|-
| Harry Rimmer<ref name=Hope>{{cite news |last1=Hope |first1=David |title=Coombes out in city coup |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005474%2F19900515&page=1 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=15 May 1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gidman |first1=Caroline |title=Power struggle |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19960322&page=20 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=22 March 1996 |page=20}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1990 || align=right|May 1996
|-
| Frank Prendergast<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bryson |first1=Roger |title=I won't just be figurehead, says new leader |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005476%2F19960509&page=5 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=9 May 1996 |page=5}}</ref><ref name=LDP8May1998/> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1996 || align=right|May 1998
|-
| [[Mike Storey]]<ref name=LDP8May1998>{{cite news |last1=Haase |first1=Jane |last2=Barnes |first2=Geoff |title=We'll fight on in Liverpool, says shaken Prendergast |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005011%2F19980508&page=11 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=8 May 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Liverpool's Mike Storey resigns as leader |url=https://www.lgcplus.com/archive/liverpools-mike-storey-resigns-as-leader-25-11-2005/ |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Local Government Chronicle |date=25 November 2005}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|May 1998 || align=right|25 Nov 2005
|-
| [[Warren Bradley (politician)|Warren Bradley]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 7 December 2005 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=305&MId=4543 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bounds |first1=Andrew |title=Leaders play 'Russian roulette' over Tory link |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e29d0a52-c27f-11df-956e-00144feab49a |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Financial Times |date=17 September 2010}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|7 Dec 2005 || align=right|May 2010
|-
| [[Joe Anderson (politician)|Joe Anderson]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 25 May 2010 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=315&MId=10686 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|25 May 2010 || align=right|6 May 2012
|}

'''Directly elected mayors'''{{efn|Mayoral terms of office ran from the fourth day after polling day.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Authorities (Elected Mayors) (Elections, Terms of Office and Casual Vacancies) (England) Regulations 2001|year=2001|number=2544|regulation=6}}</ref>}}

{| class=wikitable
! Mayor !! colspan=2|Party !! From !! To
|-
| rowspan=2|[[Joe Anderson (politician)|Joe Anderson]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Joe Anderson elected Liverpool's Mayor on first ballot |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17947871 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=BBC News |date=4 May 2012}}</ref>{{efn|Joe Anderson was suspended from the Labour Party and stood aside from his mayoral role in December 2020. He remained nominally the mayor until the end of his term of office in May 2021, but the deputy mayor, [[Wendy Simon]], served as acting mayor during that period.<ref name="Thorp">{{Cite news |last=Thorp |first=Liam |date=10 December 2020 |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/who-wendy-simon-woman-stepping-19429693|title=Who is Wendy Simon? The woman stepping in to run Liverpool as interim leader after Joe Anderson stands aside |work=[[Liverpool Echo]] |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref>}} || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|7 May 2012 || align=right|Dec 2020
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}} || align=right|Dec 2020 || align=right|9 May 2021
|-
| [[Joanne Anderson]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Election results 2021: Joanne Anderson elected Liverpool city mayor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57014247 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Thorp |first1=Liam |title=Joanne Anderson: 'It's been a privilege but I'm delighted to have my life back' |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/joanne-anderson-its-been-privilege-26860712 |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=7 May 2023}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|10 May 2021 || align=right|7 May 2023
|}
{{notelist}}

'''Metropolitan Borough leaders'''
{| class=wikitable
! Councillor || colspan=2|Party || From || To
|-
| [[Liam Robinson (politician)|Liam Robinson]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 17 May 2023 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=315&MId=20275 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref> ||{{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} ||align=right|17 May 2023 || align=right|Present
|}

===Composition===
Following the [[2023 Liverpool City Council election|2023 election]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2023/may/04/elections-2023-results-live-local-council-england#le-full-results|title=Local elections 2023: live council results for England|work=The Guardian}}</ref> and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to July 2025, the composition of the council was:<ref name=Thorncliffe>{{cite web |title=Liverpool |url=https://www.localcouncils.co.uk/councils/?council=liverpool |website=Local Councils |publisher=Thorncliffe |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2| Party
! Councillors
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
| align=center|61
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}
| align=center|14
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Green Party of England and Wales}}
| align=center|3
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Party (UK, 1989)}}
| align=center|3
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liverpool Community Independents|full=yes}}
| align=center|3
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
| align=center|1
|-
! colspan=2|Total
! align=center|85
|}
The next election is due in 2027.<ref name=Thorncliffe/>

==Elections==
{{also|Liverpool City Council elections}}
Since the last boundary changes in 2023, 85 [[councillor]]s have been elected from 64 [[wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|wards]], with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Liverpool (Electoral Changes) Order 2022|year=2022|number=1365|access-date=7 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New electoral arrangements for Liverpool City Council Final Recommendations |url=https://www.lgbce.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-03/liverpool_final_recommendations_report.pdf |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |access-date=25 June 2023 |page=49 |date=September 2022}}</ref>

These are the wards since the 2023 local elections.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ward Maps |url=https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/key-statistics-and-data/ward-information/ward-maps/ |website=liverpool.gov.uk |publisher=Liverpool City Council |access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref>
{{Clear}}
{| class=style="margin:0 auto;"
| style="padding-right:0em;" | <ol>
<li>[[Aigburth (Liverpool ward)|Aigburth]]</li>
<li>[[Allerton (Liverpool ward)|Allerton]]</li>
<li>[[Anfield (Liverpool ward)|Anfield]]</li>
<li>[[Arundel (Liverpool ward)|Arundel]]</li>
<li>[[Belle Vale (Liverpool ward)|Belle Vale]]</li>
<li>[[Broadgreen (Liverpool ward)|Broadgreen]]</li>
<li>[[Brownlow Hill (Liverpool ward)|Brownlow Hill]]</li>
<li>[[Calderstones (Liverpool ward)|Calderstones]]</li>
<li>[[Canning (Liverpool ward)|Canning]]</li>
<li>[[Childwall (Liverpool ward)|Childwall]]</li>
<li>[[Church (Liverpool ward)|Church]]</li>
<li>[[City Centre North (Liverpool ward)|City Centre North]]</li>
<li>[[City Centre South (Liverpool ward)|City Centre South]]</li>
<li>[[Clubmoor East (Liverpool ward)|Clubmoor East]]</li>
<li>[[Clubmoor West (Liverpool ward)|Clubmoor West]]</li>
<li>[[County (Liverpool ward)|County]]</li>
<li>[[Croxteth (Liverpool ward)|Croxteth]]</li>
<li>[[Croxteth Country Park (Liverpool ward)|Croxteth Country Park]]</li>
<li>[[Dingle (Liverpool ward)|Dingle]]</li>
<li>[[Edge Hill (Liverpool ward)|Edge Hill]]</li>
<li>[[Everton East (Liverpool ward)|Everton East]]</li>
<li>[[Everton North (Liverpool ward)|Everton North]]</li>
<li>[[Everton West (Liverpool ward)|Everton West]]</li>
<li>[[Fazakerley East (Liverpool ward)|Fazakerley East]]</li>
<li>[[Fazakerley North (Liverpool ward)|Fazakerley North]]</li>
<li>[[Fazakerley West (Liverpool ward)|Fazakerley West]]</li>
<li>[[Festival Gardens (Liverpool ward)|Festival Gardens]]</li>
<li>[[Garston (Liverpool ward)|Garston]]</li>
<li>[[Gateacre (Liverpool ward)|Gateacre]]</li>
<li>[[Grassendale and Cressington (Liverpool ward)|Grassendale & Cressington]]</li>
<li>[[Greenbank Park (Liverpool ward)|Greenbank Park]]</li>
<li>[[Kensington and Fairfield (Liverpool ward)|Kensington & Fairfield]]</li>
<li>[[Kirkdale East (Liverpool ward)|Kirkdale East]]</li>
</ol>
| style=class="toccolours"|{{Image label begin|image=Liverpool City Council Wards 2023 - Numbered.svg|float=right}}{{Image label end}}
| <ol start="34">
<li>[[Kirkdale West (Liverpool ward)|Kirkdale West]]</li>
<li>[[Knotty Ash & Dovecot Park (Liverpool ward)|Knotty Ash & Dovecot Park]]</li>
<li>[[Mossley Hill (Liverpool ward)|Mossley Hill]]</li>
<li>[[Much Woolton & Hunts Cross (Liverpool ward)|Much Woolton & Hunts Cross]]</li>
<li>[[Norris Green (Liverpool ward)|Norris Green]]</li>
<li>[[Old Swan East (Liverpool ward)|Old Swan East]]</li>
<li>[[Old Swan West (Liverpool ward)|Old Swan West]]</li>
<li>[[Orrell Park (Liverpool ward)|Orrell Park]]</li>
<li>[[Penny Lane (Liverpool ward)|Penny Lane]]</li>
<li>[[Princes Park (Liverpool ward)|Princes Park]]</li>
<li>[[Sandfield Park (Liverpool ward)|Sandfield Park]]</li>
<li>[[Sefton Park (Liverpool ward)|Sefton Park]]</li>
<li>[[Smithdown (Liverpool ward)|Smithdown]]</li>
<li>[[Speke (Liverpool ward)|Speke]]</li>
<li>[[Springwood (Liverpool ward)|Springwood]]</li>
<li>[[St Michael's (Liverpool ward)|St Michaels]]</li>
<li>[[Stoneycroft (Liverpool ward)|Stoneycroft]]</li>
<li>[[Toxteth (Liverpool ward)|Toxteth]]</li>
<li>[[Tuebrook Breckside Park (Liverpool ward)|Tuebrook Breckside Park]]</li>
<li>[[Tuebrook Larkhill (Liverpool ward)|Tuebrook Larkhill]]</li>
<li>[[Vauxhall (Liverpool ward)|Vauxhall]]</li>
<li>[[Walton (Liverpool ward)|Walton]]</li>
<li>[[Waterfront North (Liverpool ward)|Waterfront North]]</li>
<li>[[Waterfront South (Liverpool ward)|Waterfront South]]</li>
<li>[[Wavertree Garden Suburb (Liverpool ward)|Wavertree Garden Suburb]]</li>
<li>[[Wavertree Village (Liverpool ward)|Wavertree Village]]</li>
<li>[[West Derby Deysbrook (Liverpool ward)|West Derby Deysbrook ]]</li>
<li>[[West Derby Leyfield (Liverpool ward)|West Derby Leyfield]]</li>
<li>[[West Derby Muirhead (Liverpool ward)|West Derby Muirhead]]</li>
<li>[[Woolton Village (Liverpool ward)|Woolton Village]]</li>
<li>[[Yew Tree (Liverpool ward)|Yew Tree]]</li>
</ol>
|}

==Premises==
[[File:Cunard Building landside 2018.jpg|thumb|[[Cunard Building]]: Council's main offices]]
Council meetings are held at [[Liverpool Town Hall]] at the junction of High Street, Dale Street and Water Street, which was built between 1749 and 1754.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1360219|desc=Town Hall, Water Street, Liverpool|grade=I|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=29 August 2022}}</ref> The council's main administrative offices are located in the [[Cunard Building]] at [[Pier Head]], which had been completed in 1917 as the headquarters of the [[Cunard Line]]. The council bought the building in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cunard Building purchase plan agreed by Liverpool Council |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-24496523 |access-date=6 June 2024 |work=BBC News |date=11 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Council agenda, 24 June 2022 |url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/documents/g19482/Agenda%20frontsheet%2024th-Jun-2022%2010.00%20Cabinet.pdf?T=0 |website=Liverpool City Council |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>

From 1868 until 2016 the council's main offices were the [[Municipal Buildings, Liverpool|Municipal Buildings]] on Dale Street. The Municipal Buildings were sold in 2016 after the council decided they were too large and costly to maintain and following the transfer of most offices to the Cunard Building.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Houghton|first1=Alistair|title=Remembering Liverpool's Municipal Buildings|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/looking-back-liverpools-municipal-buildings-12384741|website=Liverpool Echo|access-date=1 January 2017|date=31 December 2016}}</ref>

==Coat of arms==
{{main|Coat of arms of Liverpool}}

{{Infobox COA wide
|image = Coat of arms of Liverpool City Council.svg
|year_adopted = 1797
|escutcheon = Argent a Cormorant in the beak a Branch of Seaweed called Laver all proper.
|crest = On a Wreath of the Colours a Cormorant the wings elevated in the beak a Branch of Laver proper.
|supporters = On the dexter Neptune with his Sea-Green Mantle flowing the waist wreathed with Laver on his head an Eastern Crown Gold in the right hand his Trident Sable the left supporting a Banner of the arms of Liverpool on the sinister a Triton wreathed as the dexter and blowing his Shell the right hand supporting a Banner thereon a Ship under sail in perspective all proper the Banner Staves Or.
|motto = 'Deus Nobis Haec Otia Fecit'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php/Liverpool_(England) |publisher=Heraldry of the World |accessdate=26 January 2024 |title=Liverpool (England)}}</ref>}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Wikinews category|Liverpool}}
*{{Official website}}

{{Liverpool related articles}}
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{{Metropolitan districts of England}}
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