In the run-up to this week’s crucial Makerfield byelection, scores of Restore Britain’s placards were planted like mini-forests in the fields off the A49, just south of Wigan.Right across the semirural patchwork of old mining towns that make up this Lancashire constituency, the hard right-wing, anti-immigration party’s posters were ubiquitous – in gardens, atop hedges, and positioned in the front windows of many of the voters who will decide Britain’s most keenly anticipated byelection in decades.Yet few of the posters seen by The Irish Times actually named Restore’s candidate, local businesswoman Rebecca Shepherd (53). It was almost as if was...
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