Dear readers — hello and welcome to another edition of what Mill readers are calling the Burnham Byelection Bulletin. If you’re sick of hearing about our mayor-for-now: You’re in luck! In this newsletter we’ve got an opera review, the first trailer for the much-awaited curry pyramid doc and a weather report that starts with the line “Like a rollercoaster climbing to the top of the track…”
If, alternatively, you just can’t get enough of all things Makerfield, good fortune smiles upon you too. For the duration of the by-election (as with the last one) we promise to be the ones delivering the most informed, detailed, boots-on-ground and ahead-of-the-game reporting, and today is no exception. Remember that, during the Gorton and Denton by-election, we were the ones to break the story of Reform breaking electoral law (leading to a police investigation), and of their campaign manager Adam Mitula saying all sorts of racist nonsense, including the fact that he “wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman” (leading to him standing down). Well, today we’re back with an update on Mitula campaigning once more for Reform in Makerfield; whether Brexit could make or break Burnham’s campaign; rumours of rare hope in the Labour party; and this ominous response from a Green insider: “Hope is a dangerous thing”. All we can say is this — if you aren’t already, you’ll want to be signed up to The Mill over the next few weeks.
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