Joanne Anderson is first woman to lead the city and one of the few pieces of good news for Labour
Liverpool has made history by choosing the UK’s first directly elected black female mayor and the first woman to lead the city.
The election of Joanne Anderson was one of the few good news stories for Labour on Friday. Anderson, 50, beat Stephen Yip, an independent, while the Conservative candidate, Katie Burgess, lost her deposit. Anderson won 59% of the total votes (46,493 to Yip’s 32,079), although the race went to second preferences for the first time in its history.
