West Yorkshire byelection campaign accused of fuelling anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to disarm Labour candidate
On 27 May this year, while most of Westminster was still digesting the explosive evidence from the former government adviser Dominic Cummings, two other well-known political agitators were visiting the West Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen.
Laurence Fox, fresh from his failed London mayoral bid, posted a selfie taken with Paul Halloran, an independent candidate who garnered 12% of the vote in the 2019 general election with the Heavy Woollen District Independents.
