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The starting gun has been fired ahead of the summer’s general election with the launch of Labour’s campaign in Bolton . All three of the party’s candidates, Yasmin Qureshi, Phil Brickell and Kirith Entwistle gathered at the Greater Manchester Business School on Great Moor Street ahead of weeks of campaigning. A range of speakers included Bolton Council leader Nick Peel, shadow cabinet member Lucy Powell and Bromley Cross based businesswoman and former Conservative voter Allison Angel.

Ms Angel said: “I just always thought that they were the party of working people who were aspirational. “But that all changed when I was left out of all support during the pandemic.” She added: “We were excluded and there were around three and a half million of us around the country, small businesspeople, limited company directors.



“In that moment of need, the Conservatives were not there for us.” All three candidates and their opponents will face weeks of campaigning with two of Bolton’s seats set to be amongst the mostly closely watched and hard fought in the country. The candidates with Cllr Nick Peel, Lucy Powell and Allison Angel (Image: Newsquest) Yasmin Qureshi, now of Bolton South East were she won by nearly 8,000 votes at the last election, will be standing for the redrawn constituency of Bolton South and Walkden.

She said that in her time in parliament over recent years she had seen food and fuel costs along with rents all rise, while housebuilding lagged behind. Ad.

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