A "Vote Andy For Us" sign in a garden in makerfield.First, we’ll start of with good news for Andy Burnham. It looks as though he is all-but certain to win the Makerfield by-election.
With less than a fortnight to go until polling day on June 18, opinion polls – and the increasingly-confident Labour campaign team – suggest he holds a comfortable lead over Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon.
The most recent survey of voter opinion in the constituency puts Burnham on 49%, fully 10 points ahead of Kenyon on 39%.
Barring an unforeseen crisis, and in politics that can never be ruled out entirely, the Greater Manchester mayor will...
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