Liam Thorp
Liam Thorp is the multi-award winning political editor of the Liverpool Echo. As well as covering politics across Merseyside and beyond, Liam has developed a reputation for in-depth investigations looking at social issues such as homelessness, poverty and how government policy affects lives.
Liam has been named Regional Press Specialist Journalist of the Year on three separate occasions. He was previously nominated for an Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness in 2024 and has also been nominated for a Private Eye Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism.
In recent years, Liam has reported from the frontline of Liverpool’s traumatic homelessness crisis, which has seen an explosion of people living without stable accommodation and a cash-strapped city council struggling to cope. His detailed and emotive writing has seen him spend time with those living on the streets or in cramped, temporary accommodation as well as those trying to help. He has analysed the perfect storm of factors leading to this crisis in a major UK city – with his work being shared and praised nationwide.
Liam lives in south Liverpool with his wife, 20-month-old son and their Romanian rescue dog.
His shortlisted entries are:
This is regional journalism at its finest. Impactful reporting and a real eye-opening insight into the very human plight of single mum’s caught up in Liverpool’s housing crisis.
– Caroline Wheeler, Judge, The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness 2025
