Nigel Farage attempts to exploit Labour ‘civil war’ after conceding party’s candidate Jim McMahon won’t be beaten on patriotismJeremy Corbyn’s first electoral test since fitting Labour leader began in earnest on Friday as he and the Ukip leader,Nigel Farage, trooped up to Oldham to woo voters in advance of a byelection next month. Farage is basing Ukip’s whole campaign in Oldham West and Royton around voters’ perceived wariness of Corbyn, or claiming that the Labour leader wants “total freedom of movement” and to scrap immigration limits.
Corbyn,meanwhile, prefers to pretend that neither Farage nor Ukip exist. On Friday he made a two-minute speech about tax credits during a rather token visit to the constituency in support of Labour’s candidate, and the Oldham council leader,Jim McMahon.
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Source: theguardian.com