Liverpool Councillor Maria Toolan, quit Labour at the beginning of March 2023 claiming life in the party had damaged her health. In a fiery resignation statement that went viral on Twitter, she said she’d witnessed “the lowest and most dishonest that politics has to offer,” and described her 4 years as an elected Labour Party representative as ‘traumatic’ and ‘painful’.

In this special interview with Liverpolitan Editor, Paul Bryan, Maria pulls back the curtain on Liverpool’s ruling Labour group, to talk about her experiences under two Mayoral administrations.