Labour doesn’t care about Wakefield, it only cares about Labour.

Following the revelation that the Labour Party broke its own rules and stopped the Wakefield Labour members from having a say over the selection of their candidate for the upcoming by-election, Chris Walsh, the Reform UK candidate said,

“It is clear that the Labour Party sees the city of Wakefield as merely a petri dish on which it can grow backbench loyalty and where it can promote whoever is flavour of the month in Westminster. I believe that its policies are wrong and its ideas for helping this city are mistaken. But I also believe that local people should have had the final say about who it is that represents them.

“The fact that its local Executive Committee has resigned shows the people of Wakefield that Labour cannot be trusted with their votes. If Labour cannot even be trusted to treat its own people properly, what hope is there for Wakefield?”