The Labour Party have completed an electoral clean sweep on Merseyside.
Keir Starmer’s party will ascend to power with a landslide victory from Thursday’s General Election results which a 178-seat parliamentary majority.
They retained a traditional stronghold of seats across the Liverpool City Region in addition to dramatically returning a first-ever MP in Southport.
Patrick Hurley outperformed incumbent Conservative candidate Damien Moore by over 6,000 votes to usher in a first Labour MP since the constituency was created in the 1880s.
“I feel relieved the campaign is over; I am eager to get working,” he told the BBC.
“The town has seen better days, if you walk down Lord Street it looks tired.
“People have been mentioning the pier being closed to me on the doorstep and everywhere looks like it’s seen better days and needs investment.
“Southport’s always had pockets of deprivation, but under the Tory government those pockets have expanded.”
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