{"id":37908,"date":"2026-06-04T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/37908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:00:31","slug":"is-makerfield-just-a-pawn-in-the-labour-leadership-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/37908\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Makerfield &#8216;just a pawn&#8217; in the Labour leadership battle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Is Makerfield &#039;just a pawn&#039; in the Labour leadership battle?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J452aVdM70Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIs Makerfield &#8216;just a pawn&#8217; in the Labour leadership battle?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just two weeks now until voters head to the polls in the Makerfield by-election &#8211; which could have wider implications for UK politics.<\/p>\n<p>Once a Labour stronghold, the area saw Reform UK sweep the board during the local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Our political editor Beth Rigby has been to meet the Makerfield candidates, to see what they&#8217;re offering voters.<\/p>\n<p>Latest politics news: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-files-defence-investment-kemi-badenoch-12593360<\/p>\n<p>#makerfield #politics #vote #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Makerfield &#8216;just a pawn&#8217; in the Labour leadership battle? It&#8217;s just two weeks now until voters head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[20540,13615,26484,25688,5792,3840,2177,744,37765,8246,2370,28371,37763,17432,247,10156,415,37766,361,37767,30230,37764,700,296,37768,25899,1145,4751],"class_list":["post-37908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-beth-rigby","tag-by-election","tag-candidates","tag-conservative","tag-downing-street","tag-government","tag-greens","tag-jake-austin","tag-labour-leadership","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-makerfield","tag-michael-winstanley","tag-number-10","tag-politics","tag-polling","tag-prime-minister","tag-rebecca-shepherd","tag-reform","tag-restore","tag-robert-kenyon","tag-sarah-wakefield","tag-sir-keir-starmer","tag-sky-news","tag-uk-future","tag-vote-2026","tag-voting","tag-westminster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116691759393367529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908","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=37908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}