Kevin Fitzpatrick

And he was already facing questions about why Robert Kenyon had recently just deleted his Facebook account.

The allegations not denied by Reform UK are that he'd ended up being friends on there with a fascist campaigner.

Previously, he'd also had his ex-account

sanctioned and deleted but Nigel Farage yesterday was saying essentially this is nothing to worry about we've done all our checks absolutely 100% happy with him and what happened was at the last election when he stood he just accepted friend requests from everybody and there's nothing untoward in it

It is, yeah.

And I think they've learned a lot of lessons from the Gorton and Denton by-election more generally.

And there, really, this is back in mid-January, wasn't it?

That was a standing start for the party.

They just had one councillor in the Tameside area, none in Manchester.

Those two boroughs kind of make up the constituency.

And they didn't really have a team to get off the back of.

Whereas here in Wigan, they've just had 24 councillors elected after having none before the local elections.

So that's a huge team.

At the first weekend, this weekend just gone, they were able to have a whole load of activists out and about.

Two buses came down and they've got a load of press officers as well, which hasn't always been the situation.

So suddenly it does seem that they are a much more slicker operation and they will be throwing absolutely everything at this by-election campaign.

We haven't, no.

But if he does have jobs booked in, which you'd think a decent plumber would, then he does win.

People will be disappointed.

And that was the first thing Hannah Spencer announced, wasn't it, when she won, that she was going to have to let a load of customers down.