Reform’s lack of vetting over potty-mouth plumber has gifted Makerfield to Labour – and could cost them General Election

YOU can bet your life that ­Labour’s Andy Burnham is going to win the Makerfield by-election – although you will not get very good odds. The bookies have the Greater Manchester Mayor odds-on to win. Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, the headbangers who reckon that Reform are a bunch of establishment snowflakes, are eating into the...