With every day it gets clearer that the voters of Makerfield have been defrauded.
They have been swindled, diddled out of their votes by a charlatan, who is now gleefully betraying the single most important pledge he made to get elected.
Time and again they asked prospective MP Andy Burnham whether he would do anything to unscramble Brexit. He swore blind that he would not. Makerfield, after all, had voted two to one to leave the EU.
On May 18 he told an investment conference in Leeds: ‘I am not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU…’ He went on to say:
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