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Cllr Liam Robinson, leader of Liverpool Council(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nLiam Robinson has set out where he thinks the battle lines will be drawn for Liverpool in 2027Cllr Liam Robinson, leader of Liverpool Council(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
The battle for Liverpool\u2019s political future lies between Labour and Reform UK, according to the leader of the city council<\/a> who has claimed Nigel Farage\u2019s party would be \u201cinevitably damaging\u201d for the city. If national polls are to be believed throughout this year, Mr Farage\u2019s political insurgents are in the driving seat to replace Keir Starmer\u2019s governing party in Downing Street come the next general election.<\/p>\n According to a YouGov survey earlier this month, Reform UK<\/a> held an eight point lead at the top of the pile, with 27% of voters saying they would back them in 2029, the most likely year of the next general election. Before then will be the all-out elections to decide who runs Liverpool for another four years in 2027.<\/p>\n Labour is heading into its 16th year at the top of the Cunard Building, having retaken the administration from the Liberal Democrats<\/a> in 2010. Cllr Liam Robinson is the man at the helm going into the New Year and has set his sights clearly on one opponent in particular.<\/p>\n He said: “Let\u2019s be dead honest, the real fight in this city and the real fight across this country is Labour versus Reform. I think one of the best examples I can use is we\u2019re proud how in the past year we\u2019ve insourced two care homes that were failing and the prime provider was leaving.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve then taken those back into council operation so we can deliver proper quality care for vulnerable people and make sure that we can actually maximise the uses of those because previously, those homes people understandably didn\u2019t want to send their loved ones to. It\u2019s been really good to see the improvements that have been stepped through and frankly, we\u2019ve looked after the workforce there.<\/p>\n \u201cThose people are now being paid the real living wage, they weren\u2019t before, so there\u2019s so much we\u2019ve done with that. I use that as a good example of a Labour council making a practical difference because if you go to Malvina, for example, up in Anfield<\/a>, it\u2019s eight miles as the crow flies to the border with Lancashire County Council.<\/p>\n \u201cLancashire under Reform and all the madness that\u2019s going on there, are shutting care homes. Pretty cruelly, I believe, and I think that shows the kind of the true difference of what we\u2019re up against here.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2023, Reform only stood one candidate and was comfortably beaten into fifth place out of six in the Wavertree<\/a> Village ward. In two subsequent city council by-elections this year, the party has fielded candidates, in Much Woolton<\/a> and Hunts Cross, and Sefton<\/a> Park but is yet to do enough to get a seat in the Town Hall.<\/p>\n![\"Reform](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1_Reform-UK-photo-op.jpg\")
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage(Image: PA)<\/p>\n