On Thursday, Makerfield is hosting what is surely the most consequential byelection in memory.
If he wins, Andy Burnham will challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership –. attempt to save the party and the government from its current malaise.
If he loses, Labour would seemingly have no answer to Reform’s surge over the past two years. Nigel Farage’s party would have seen off Labour’s most popular politician,. Farage himself would appear closer to No 10 than ever before.
Helen Pidd heads to Makerfield to hear from voters,. talks to the Guardian’s north of England editor, Josh Halliday, about how British politics could look very different on Friday morning.
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