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The Oldham East And Saddleworth By-Election Candidate Interviews

The campaign is all but over. Now it’s almost time for people across Saddleworth to vote in the by-election. A total of ten candidates are standing, and you can read and listen to interviews with eight of them by clicking on their names below.

In the interviews, each candidate gives their thoughts on a variety […]

Pickles Urges Tory Voters To Stay Loyal

Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles used the final afternoon of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s by-election to urge Conservatives supporters to stick with the party’s candidate, Kashif Ali.

Opinion polls have shown the Tories in third place, and Liberal Democrats have been urging Conservatives to consider voting tactically to try to keep Labour […]

Burnham Leads Labour’s Final Effort

Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham faces the media in Shaw this lunchtime.

Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham joined Labour candidate Debbie Abrahams for some final-day campaigning in Shaw this lunchtime. He urged undecided voters to “think carefully” about how they wanted their next MP to vote on a variety of current political issues.

Mr […]

Lib Dems Focus On Manufacturing Jobs

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and Lib Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins were shown round Patterson and Rothwell in Oldham today

On the final day of campaigning in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, the Liberal Democrats have returned to one of their key themes of the past few weeks, the local manufacturing […]

Inspiral Carpets Singer Backs Labour

(left to right) Emmerdale actor John Middleton, Labour candidate Debbie Abrahams, Coronation Street's David Neilson and Inspiral Carpets frontman Tom Hingley, pictured at Tesco on Huddersfield Road yesterday.

The frontman of legendary Oldham band Inspiral Carpets has urged local people to support Labour in tomorrow’s by-election. Tom Hingley was joined by two well-known soap […]