WARRINGTON Borough Council's leader Cllr Terry O'Neill believes residents voted for two Labour MPs because they are 'fed up' with Tory plans.

Helen Jones retained her Warrington North seat, while Faisal Rashid stunned David Mowat to snatch the Warrington South seat, in the General Election on June 8.

Cllr O'Neill (LAB – Burtonwood and Winwick) said it was a 'fantastic result' for his party.

He added: "Local Labour councillors were quietly confident that it would be a much closer race than the national polls predicted because the Warrington Labour group has grown its majority at the Town Hall for five consecutive years and we have a tremendous track record of trying to protect public services and support our most vulnerable in society, while at the same time still developing the town, creating new jobs and opportunities for our young people.

"To get two MPs elected to represent the town shows just how fed up local people are about the Conservative Party's plans for the dementia tax on the elderly, the continued slashing of north west councils' public services' budgets on the spurious grounds of austerity but yet still give tax breaks to the super-rich and, of course, many in Warrington remembered the broken 2015 General Election promises of no tolls on the new Mersey crossing for Warrington residents."