Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a metropolitan county, created in the 1974 local government reform. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...

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Liverpool has been a town since 1207, when it was granted its first charter by King John. It has had a town council since before the 19th century, and was granted city status by Victoria. Events Stephen Langton consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury June 17 by Pope Innocent III Births September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal October 1 - Henry III of England (English monarch) in Winchester Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (poet and Sufi mystic) Elizabeth of Hungary St. ... John (French: Jean) (December 24, 1166–October 18/19, 1216) reigned as King of England from April 6, 1199, until his death. ... Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1876 until her death. ...

When local government was introduced in 1888 it was one of the cities to become a county borough, and thus independent of Lancashire. This situation persisted until 1974 when due to urban expansion and the accretion of a large metropolitan area, the city was made a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Merseyside. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a metropolitan county, created in the 1974 local government reform. ...

In 1913 Gateacre was absorbed into the city. 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Gateacre is an area of Liverpool, England. ...

In 1986 the council of Merseyside was abolished and its functions devolved to its districts, but the county still legally exists. It should be noted therefore that Liverpool has never been a district council under Lancashire County Council. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Administration

In the late 1970's the City was run by the Liberal Party under Sir Trevor Jones, as part of there plans a cost cutting excercise was drawn up, to reduce the councils costs by 25%. In 1979 the Tories won a narrow victory in the General Election. Part of the Tories plan was to impose a 25% cut on councils across the country. Liverpool city council successfully negotiated an exception from this, on the grounds that they had already cut 25%, the Tories insisted on this being kept secret, for political reasons. Unfortunately the agreement was made public by the council. The Tories then cancelled it. This led to Liverpool having to bear a 50% cut in funding, in addition to the normal bias in council funding. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. ... Trevor Jones (born 1949 Cape Town, South Africa) is an orchestral film score composer. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ...

During the 1980s, the entryist Militant movement infiltrated the Labour party and took control of several councils including Liverpool, and challenged the national government on several issues. It was felt by the Thatcher administration that the metropolitan counties were too powerful (especially Greater London Council), and so rather than risk more confrontations, she decided to get rid of them. Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which a smaller organisation joins a (usually hostile) larger organisation in an attempt to either gain recruits, influence or both. ... The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the UK, practicing entryist tactics. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the only woman as of 2005 to serve in that position. ... The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to its abolition in 1986. ...

External link

• Liverpool City Council (http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/)