Can independent candidates pose a threat to Labour?

Nigel Farage says that Britain is ready for a ‘revolt’, and he’s not the only candidate in this election committed to an uprising. The biggest threat to Keir Starmer is coming not from the Tories or the Lib Dems… but from left-wing insurgents.

In Bristol Central, Thangam Debbonaire, the shadow culture secretary, could lose to the Greens. In Ashton-under-Lyne, Angela Rayner’s seat, George Galloway’s Workers party is trying to cause trouble. In the last election, Rayner had the lowest vote share of any Labour candidate there since 1931, but was still re-elected with a majority of more than 4,000. Galloway wants this apathetic town to finally unseat Labour’s deputy leader.

Spend a Saturday afternoon in the town’s market and you’ll see no ordinary resident cares about the election. ‘No thanks’, ‘I’m not one for voting’, ‘I think they’re all…’ are typical responses. Jimmy, a florist, immigrated to Ashton-under-Lyne from Nairobi when he was seven.