Labour confirm they won’t stand in Haltemprice & Howden

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.