The soon-to-be peer isn’t ready to take a step back yet. David Bartlett reports

FORMER Liverpool council leader Mike Storey does not have a street named after him – despite the “Storey Road” replica sign in his school office.

Soon, however, he will be able to add the title Lord Storey of Liverpool in the county of Merseyside to his headmaster’s office door, if he so desired.

The new title is the latest stopping off point in one of the longest and most productive journeys in Liverpool politics.

The journey started in the early 1973 when the young teacher was persuaded to stand as a Liberal candidate.

While living in a shared house in Granton Road, near Anfield, straight out of teacher training college, local Liberal organiser Peter Schaivalle persuaded him to stand as nothing more than a paper candidate in Clubmoor and Norris Green.

He duly won the seat and the political career of one of the longest-serving councillors in Liverpool was born.

But, in the 1980s, his career was almost cut short when he was appointed deputy head of a school in Whiston – on condition that he stand down as a councillor.