Liam Byrne says he sees a ‘clear trend of people switching back to Labour’ in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton
With two days to go before the local elections in England, Liam Byrne’s pedometer showed he had already clocked up 29 miles this week, more than a marathon’s worth of walkabouts and door-knocking as Labour tries to gain ground in the West Midlands mayoral race.
Recent polls have not been promising for the party, showing the Conservative incumbent, Andy Street, between seven and nine points ahead in first-preference votes. In 2017, Street scraped the win by barely 4,000 second-preference votes.
