Kim Leadbetter
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And I didn't want somebody who had got no connection to Batley & Spen
didn't know the community.
Like, you know, that is my community.
I'm from the area.
I know the streets.
I know the shops.
I know the schools.
I know the people.
As much as it was a safe Labour seat, there was a huge risk of that happening, right?
Oh, massively, because Labour was not in a good place at the time.
They'd just lost the Hartlepool by-election.
There was a good chance they could lose badly in Spain.
So the pressure was actually a lot more intense than I realised at the time.
And so having talked it through, I thought, well, let's give it a go.
And we did give it a go.
And it was a horrible by-election campaign.
We had people coming over, sobbing division.
We had far right candidates walking the streets.
Yeah.
I mean, I think when something so horrific happens,