2026-05-16
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Senses it feels quite positive for Andy Burnham this is his home turf and they 've said you know he 's a local lad
he 's one of us he understands what it 's like the Labour Party MP Josh Simons is standing down as the MP in Makerfield
in the northwest in the Wigan area to make way for Andy Burnham It 's been harder
to find support for reform than I thought.
And I don't think that it's because there's support for Labour, but it's because there's support for Andy Burnham.
It's not unanimous by any means.
So that may change when reforms start turning up, throwing everything at it, as I'm sure they will.
The Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, has found a route back to Parliament,
but he needs to win a critical by-election burst that reform are set to throw the kitchen sink at.
From the Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Holt.
Well, I'm joined by Hannah Al-Othman, literally on the road in Makerfield,
where this very critical by-election is soon to take place,
where Josh Simons, the Labour MP, has agreed to stand down to pave the way for the Mayor
of Greater Manchester to stand for a seat in Parliament.
First of all, Hannah, just tell me a bit about Makerfield, what it's like as a constituency.
So Makerfield sort of on the outskirts of Greater Manchester is in the borough of Wigan.