Liverpool council has compiled a list of frequently asked questions about how the elected mayor structure will work.

I thought it useful to reproduce it here:

Are Phil Redmond and David Miliband trying to wind up Liverpool council leader Joe Anderson?

Twice now Redmond has point blank refused to say one way or the other whether he will stand as mayor, and keeps leaving the question hanging. Although he seems be saying he might be interested in the right circumstances.

For Miliband's part, his suggestion that the Labour party should have an open primary will be seen as unhelpful.

Liverpool council has tonight voted to ditch its council leader and have an elected mayor instead.

Sixty-two councillors voted in favour of the measure, three were against, and there were 12 abstentions in the vote held in the council chamber, my colleague David Bartlett reports.

That kind of result will please the government whose pet project this is. In deciding to ditch a referendum - which 10 other cities will hold in May - and go straight to a mayoral election, the city council has reportedly secured some £130 million in extra funding.

It's been interesting to observe this little democratic (or not as the Lib Dems would have it) experiment that my former home city is undertaking right now in deciding to go for a mayoral election on 3 May...

The government has signed off on the £130 'city deal' for Liverpool ahead of tonight's vote to ditch the council leader and have a historic mayor instead.

It's a pretty good deal, but the devil is always in the detail. Critics will point to the fact that George Osborne has to sign off the major funding element, a pot of £75m, and that the new schools as part of the deal have to be academies.

Any retention of business rates under the enterprise zone have to be signed off by the yet-to-be-launched Liverpool Local Enterprise Partnership

You can read the offer by downloading the letter from Sir Bob Kerslake, permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government here: Liverpool_cities_deal_letter.pdf

Phil Redmond refused to rule out running for elected mayor of Liverpool on the BBC's debate show Question Time.

The show was broadcast from Southport's Floral Hall last night.

Chairman David Dimbleby asked Redmond if he was running to be Liverpool's elected mayor.

There has been a bit of a snooty reaction in some quarters to the fact flamboyant stylist is planning to run for mayor (as revealed in today's ECHO).

Does a man who admits he has not voted for 20 years deserve your vote? Or maybe because he has not voted in 20 years he is more in tune with the average disaffected voter.

Either way, we should welcome a bit of pizzazz in the race for Liverpool's first mayor. Characters like Herbert will help engage potential voters who may otherwise not be interested.

The Liverpool Labour party has endorsed leader Joe Anderson's push for a directly elected mayor.

Last night about 200 party members gathered to hear the details of the £130m deal.

Labour councillors will be given a free vote in the historic council meeting next Tuesday, and are likely to give it unanimous support.

The agenda for the meeting has been published, it can be viewed HERE.

The speculation is over, today we confirm that Joe Anderson is set to ditch the mayoral referendum and move straight to a mayoral election in May.

It's an audacious move backed up with £130m of extra spending and some extra powers from government for the new mayor.

But it works on a number of levels for Cllr Anderson and the Labour party.

Sure there are a couple of hurdles to get over first - the government has to officially sign off the package, two thirds of the council has to approve the council's constitution so it is run by a mayor, and Cllr Anderson needs to get selected as the Labour candidate.

The man leading Liverpool's campaign to have an elected Mayor has confirmed he will run for the office.

Liverpool is due to hold a referendum in May about whether it wants a mayor, and if the city votes yes Mr Fogarty said he will run.

Chair of A Mayor For Liverpool Liam Fogarty says he would run as an independent candidate with ambitious ideas for the city.

Mr Fogarty said: "Campaigning for an elected mayor I'm constantly being asked about my own intentions.

Politicians some times talk about their so-called personal vote.

That is the number of votes that they get at an election because of who they are, their record, and not just because they are a member of a political party.

In local elections a decent level of personal vote is said to be worth about 500 votes.

The reason I mention this is because some have been wondering whether Warren Bradley has enough of a personal vote to win re-election in Liverpool's Wavertree ward as an independent.