David and Rob are collecting rubbish in their old wheelbarrow. But they’d like something a bit more permanent. ‘You got any jobs going?’ Dave asks me.
I have to tell him that sadly I don’t, and explain that I’m walking around the tight terraces of Willows Close in Washington, Tyne and Wear, trying to ascertain how people are planning to vote in this week’s local elections.
Neither man intends to go to the polls. But they still provide me with a small clue about prevailing political sentiment.
‘You know, you look a bit like Keir Starmer with that hair,’ Rob observes. ‘You’d better watch
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