'His job isn’t too hard because he enjoys it' - when a Pupil Parliament interviewed the Leader of Liverpool City Council

On Wednesday 26th November 2025 we met the Leader of the Liverpool City Council, Mr Liam Robinson. We had invited him in following his visit with Early Years Foundation Stage when they met to give him their ideas of keeping Liverpool and Kensington tidy and litter free.

Our meeting was to ask questions about his job and find out about the City Council. We wanted to know how they helped our community and to give him our ideas.

The people who attended this meeting were the Pupil Parliament of Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (Year 1-Year 6). We represent our classes. We all sat on chairs and Mr Robinson stood up and answered our questions.

The main topics we talked about were the buildings around Kensington including libraries and stores. We told Mr Robinson which ones we think are useful and asked him how we could all go to the library for free. The older children asked more specific questions about his role as the Leader of Liverpool City Council; including how difficult his job is and if he had met the Prime Minister or the King. His answers were: his job isn’t too hard because he enjoys it and it depends on what he is doing. He has met the current Prime Minister three times and has also met previous Prime Ministers.

The overall feeling of the meeting was very positive as it was a good time meeting Mr Robinson and knowing more about his job. It is important for all children to understand what Liverpool City Council do for us as we can come up with ideas to help our community. Last year we helped them plant trees at the park near our school and also helped litter pick around school.

Next time, we will go on a trip to see the Mayor because all the children really enjoyed meeting such an important person in Liverpool and we like to think of ways to make our community a better place.

To help Catholic schools engage with democracy the CES has created an online automatic generator to identify and invite your school's MP to pay a visit.