{"id":29328,"date":"2026-05-19T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/29328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:16","slug":"reform-select-plumber-as-makerfield-by-election-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/29328\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform select plumber as Makerfield by-election candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Reform select plumber as Makerfield by-election candidate\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_r8GxQf1OVE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nReform select plumber as Makerfield by-election candidate<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere has never been a by-election like the one looming in Makerfield.<br \/>\nAndy Burnham may have been prevented by Labour&#8217;s ruling body from standing in a by-election back in February, but now the red carpet seems to have been rolled out, and no one else&#8217;s name was even put forward. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>If he beats Reform and the other parties &#8211; and it&#8217;s a big if &#8211; he will return to parliament to almost inevitably challenge and possibly destroy Keir Starmer&#8217;s premiership.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates have been announced by Labour, Reform UK, Restore Britain and the Monster Raving Loony Party. Other parties are expected to announce candidates before nominations close next week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform select plumber as Makerfield by-election candidate There has never been a by-election like the one looming in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[20540,30565,30571,331,366,352,365,26486,354,263,24138,24141,1295,353,28649,30564,30570,20672,325,30569,30566,30567,25436,341,267,30568,235],"class_list":["post-29328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-andy-burnham-comeback","tag-british-elections","tag-british-politics","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-greater-manchester-mayor","tag-international-news","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-crisis","tag-labour-leadership-challenge","tag-labour-party","tag-latest-news","tag-makerfield-by-election","tag-makerfield-election","tag-parliamentary-by-election","tag-political-news-uk","tag-reform-uk","tag-restore-britain-party","tag-starmer-vs-burnham","tag-uk-by-election-2026","tag-uk-election-news","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-westminster-return","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}