Election 2011: Teenage Labour candidate takes Lib Dem seat

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Eighteen-year-old Jake Morrison beat former council leader with almost 40 years' experience

Jake Morrison, an 18-year-old hospital care worker, took a seat in Liverpool from the veteran former Liberal Democrat council leader, Lord Mike Storey.

Morrison said: "Obviously I hope to follow in some of Mike's footsteps. He's been a councillor for over 38 years and is respected by residents in Liverpool and I wish him well." Storey himself was elected as a 21-year-old.

Morrison was the youngest Labour party candidate in the city and fought the campaign on the basis of rebuilding communities in and around Wavertree. The Lib Dems lost 11 of the 13 seats they were defending in Liverpool.