Labour have confirmed that they won’t put forward a candidate for the Haltemprice & Howden by-election. For Team Davis, this will surely ingrain those worries that I mentioned earlier. But, depsite that, Davis had already set up the perfect response to the news. Talking to the BBC earlier, he said: “Gordon Brown … is my real opponent”. Now he just needs to get this message out as much as possible – particularly before getting embroiled in debate with the irregular collection of candidates who are standing.
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