Joe Anderson (politician)

Joseph Anderson, OBE, is the first directly elected Mayor of Liverpool. He won a second term in May 2016 with 52. 6% of the vote. He was previously leader of Liverpool City Council from 2010 to 2012. He is currently suspended from the Labour Party after being arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.

About Joe Anderson (politician) in brief

Joseph Anderson, OBE, is the first directly elected Mayor of Liverpool. He won a second term in May 2016 with 52. 6% of the vote. He was previously leader of Liverpool City Council from the 2010 Council election until the 2012 Mayoral election. He is currently suspended from the Labour Party after being arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. He joined the Merchant Navy when he left school and later worked for P&O Ferries. He then attended Liverpool John Moores University as a mature student and obtained a postgraduate diploma in social work, allowing him to become a full-time social worker at Chesterfield High School in Crosby. In April 2015, Anderson brought legal proceedings against Chesterfield.

He claimed he had been unfairly dismissed from his role as a’social inclusion mentor’, despite not having worked at the school for two years. It transpired that he had continued to receive an annual salary of £4,500 from the school during his working absence. Anderson lost part of his case at the first hearing and the high school requested Anderson pay back a portion of the money he had received. In December 2015, he was appointed as the Leader of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. Anderson was interviewed by police under caution in November 2017. He has been involved with the campaign to free Michael Shields after his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Bulgaria.

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