The Mayor of Wirral (or Civic Mayor of Wirral) is a ceremonial post elected annually, along with a deputy, by

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. The role of the mayor includes chairing council meetings, representing the Borough at civic functions, supporting local charities and conferring Honorary Freemen and Aldermen. The incumbent mayor and deputy mayor are George Davies and Jeff Green.

Controversies

On 2 June 2014, 5 councillors (4

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and 1

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) voted against former leader of the council Steve Foulkes's nomination for mayor with a further 10 (all

) abstaining. Leader of the Council Phil Davies said afterwards “It leaves a bad taste in the mouth, it was just grandstanding by the Tories.”

councillor Pat Clearly wrote in his blog “On Monday June Wirral elects its new Mayor. Normally, a routine vote where a long standing councillor is elected with cross party support…but, this year is different as the Mayor elect is Steve Foulkes who was Council Leader when Wirral became very publicly associated with incompetence, bullying, gagging clauses, resignations and bad financial management”.

List of mayors of Wirral

20th century

21st century

File:Cllr Phil Gilchrist.jpg, Phil Gilchrist, 34th Mayor of Wirral File:Cllr Steve Foulkes.jpg, Steve Foulkes, 41st Mayor of Wirral File:Mayor Les Rowlands.jpg, Les Rowlands, 42nd Mayor of Wirral File:Mayor Pat Hackett.jpg, Pat Hackett, 43rd Mayor of Wirral File:Mayor Geoffrey Watt.jpg, Geoffrey Watt, 45th Mayor of Wirral

References

{{Lists of Mayors in the United Kingdom Wirral Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral