Liam Murphy

Decision day

Voting is over and ballot papers counted in the race to be the Labour candidate in the first ever Liverpool city region metro mayor.

The announcement is due to be made at 10am today (Wednesday August 10) and will see one local Labour politician emerge as the front-runner to hold one of the most powerful political positions outside London.

MPs Luciana Berger and Steve Rotheram along with Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson are all bidding to be their chosen by around 7,000 Labour party members across the region to be the candidate.

The three hopefuls have been slugging it out at hustings and meetings across the Liverpool city region in recent weeks trying to woo Labour party members.

Whoever wins the most votes will then be the Labour candidate when all parties go to the polls next year and all voters will have the opportunity to choose the first ever Liverpool city region mayor.