I’m searching for Andy Burnham. And as I pull up in St Oswalds Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield, I sense I may have come to the right place. Staggered along the right-hand side of this quiet cul-de-sac are a series of yellow and red Vote Labour billboards, something of a rarity in modern by-elections.
Although St Oswalds Road isn’t quite the haven of tranquillity it was a few days ago. ‘It’s doing my head in,’ Graham, who is out working on his car, tells me. ‘We’ve already had three lots of canvassers round today.’
Was the mayor of Greater Manchester and putative next Prime
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