seats in the north west of england and bury south is one of them. if we win bury south next time, and i very much hope we do, then i think you will have another conservative government and similarly so far as the labour party is concerned. it is a bellwether seat and it will be a tight run race whenever that comes. but the election is two years away and who knows what the issues will be then. but it will be a hard fight and i think christian wakeford will have a difficultjob actually convincing hardline labour activists convincing ha rdline labour activists see convincing hardline labour activists see is their man. after all, they have been campaigning against him for the last two years, actively so, and suddenly they find he is their new best friend. i think they will find that difficult to take.- find that difficult to take. david sumber: , find that difficult to take. david sumberg, thank find that difficult to take. david sumberg, thank you find that difficult to take. david su
where it s difficult to explain some of these issues, then you know it s wrong. - at the moment, we have a party. trying to defend the indefensible, and they re doing so gladly. that s not right, it s not fair, and it doesn t respect- the country or the office. but one of wakeford s predecessors in the seat, david sumberg, who held it for the conservatives between 1983 and 1997, was less than impressed with his change of heart. to be honest, ifind it difficult to take christian wa keford seriously. only a couple of days ago he was, as a conservative mp, putting in a letter to sir graham brady asking for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. a few months ago, i saw on bbc today he was speaking in the house he was speaking in the house
People felt Labour wasn t listening : After general election disaster , Burnham and Rayner explain how party hopes to stop another catastrophe in council polls
The Greater Manchester Mayor and Shadow First Secretary of State visited Bury to share Labour s hopes for the fast-approaching council elections
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Labour figures have been out in force across Greater Manchester to drum up support ahead of the local council and mayoral elections (Image: Manchester Evening News)
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