In ‘Makerfield’, even the name of the constituency captures the inherent duplicity of what is going on.
It might sound like some rustic idyll out of Thomas Hardy and is certainly more evocative than Wigan South-West (which is what it is). But it hasn’t been a place since Norman times.
While the town of Ashton-in-Makerfield sits inside the constituency, neighbouring Ince-in-Makerfield is not in ‘Makerfield’ at all.
Here, we have a sitting MP standing down less than two years into the job, claiming he wants ‘change’, while making no mention of his grubby role in a character-assassination scandal that ended his spell as
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