Over half of voters in Manchester think Labour is wrong to stop Andy Burnham standing as a Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election and 62 per cent say he should be allowed to run as the party’s candidate in the seat.
New polling of Greater Manchester residents, exclusive to the New Statesman, shows widespread public opposition to the decision of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) on Sunday to bar the city region’s mayor from standing in the seat.
Some 54 per cent said it would be “wrong” for the party to block Burnham standing in the by-election while 8 per cent said it would be “right”. Thirty-nine per cent were undecided.
Progressive? I swear it’s like someone’s erased his entire career as a government minister.