Reporting on Politics in the local news.

I am personally interested in looking at the political and economic circumstances faced by people here in Liverpool, especially with the next general election looming on the horizon. I am interested in doing a piece on politics as it is an area of personal interest to me and one that I believe must that I believe needs more done to get the general population interested and involved, especially young people.
Within the most prominent local newspaper in my area, the Liverpool Echo, political reporting is woefully inadequate.
Most stories are short and concise, often giving a brief summary of the issue being explored in the article and little else. Most often only a single primary source is used though there is occasional use of secondary sources to provide opinions or commentary on the issue.
The political coverage is also distinctly left wing with a strong leaning towards labor, though this is to be expected as the Liverpool area has traditionally been a labor stronghold.. This can be seen in the wording of the articles and the secondary sources used that are distinctly anti-conservative. For example MP for Walton, Steve Rotheram was highly critical of the current Conservative governments economic plans for Liverpool, calling the current budget "a Paul Daniel's magic show".
Also notable is the level of coverage given to political news within the Echo, on the front page of their website only a single article, at the bottom of the page, concerns Politics or the Economy. This can be compared to the over half a dozen sports related news stories on the front page. In a time where the general election is only 2 months away this is simply not enough to get the public interested, invested in and aware of their political and economic future.
This is exasperated by the simplicity of many of the articles, giving only a brief overview and a few facts and figures, often from a single primary source, there is a lack of in depth reporting on the current political occurrences at both local and national level. While some most of the articles contain some form of an opinion on how the issues covered will effect the readers, few of the pieces provide fair and un-biased analysis of this.
However the overall short length and low depth of the stories is reflective of the style of article across the site as a whole.