Steven Philip Rotheram was born on 4 November 1961 and is a British Labour politician who has served as the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region since 2017.
23 Facts About Steve Rotheram
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Steve Rotheram earned a Master's in Contemporary Urban Renaissance from Liverpool Hope University and worked as a business manager for the Learning and Skills Council before he was elected to represent Fazakerley for Labour on Liverpool City Council from 2002 to 2011.
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Steve Rotheram served as the Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 2008 to 2009 and the MP for Liverpool Walton from 2010 to 2017.
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Steven Philip Rotheram was born in Kirkby on 4 November 1961, the son of housewife Dorothy and forklift driver Harry Rotheram.
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Steve Rotheram has seven siblings and attended Ruffwood School in Kirkby.
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Steve Rotheram's parents divorced when he was a teenager, which Rotheram later partly attributed to his father's absences caused by his devotion to his political career.
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Steve Rotheram left school at the age of 16 to become a bricklayer, setting up his own company at the age of 22.
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Steve Rotheram spent eight months rebuilding war-torn infrastructure in the Falkland Islands in 1983, an experience he did not enjoy.
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Steve Rotheram worked as a business manager for the Learning and Skills Council for many years after graduating.
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Steve Rotheram was elected to represent Fazakerley as a Labour Councillor for Liverpool City Council in the 2002 election.
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Steve Rotheram later served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 2008 to 2009, which coincided with Liverpool's period as European Capital of Culture.
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At the 2010 general election, Steve Rotheram retained the seat with a comfortable majority of 19,818.
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In October 2011, Steve Rotheram joined the Culture, Media and Sport Committee where he asked James Murdoch if he would close The Sun newspaper following the News International phone hacking scandal in 2011.
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In October 2011, Steve Rotheram gave an emotional speech to the House of Commons where he read out the names of all 96 Hillsborough disaster victims so they would be recorded in Hansard, and called for the release of all government papers relating to the disaster.
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Steve Rotheram was the chief organiser of a charity single designed to raise funds to cover the legal costs of the Hillsborough families which attracted the attention of the award-winning music producer Guy Chambers.
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In September 2012, along with members of The Farm, Mick Jones, and former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, Steve Rotheram arranged for a number of artists to record a cover of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" as "The Justice Collective", in an attempt to reach the coveted Christmas UK number one.
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On 23 December 2012, it was confirmed that the cover had become Christmas number one, which Steve Rotheram called "an honour".
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Steve Rotheram was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.
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Steve Rotheram was the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's Parliamentary Private Secretary.
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In 2016, Steve Rotheram said he intended to stand for the Labour nomination to become Liverpool region metro mayor in the 2017 mayoral election, and was selected as the Labour candidate in August 2016.
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In December 2022 Steve Rotheram stated that he hoped the tidal power project could be generating electricity by the end of the decade.
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Steve Rotheram accepted a deal with the British government in October 2020 to place the Liverpool City Region under Tier 3 restrictions, following a sharp rise in cases across northern England.
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In February 2022, the Combined Authority approved Steve Rotheram's plans introduce a bus franchising model, which would give the authority the power greater control over the region's bus network and the ability to set bus routes, timetables and fares.