Lucy Fisher

But I must speak as I find, and I would say that we've driven to every part of the constituency, whether it's Abraham, Hindley, Oral, Ashton, Winstanley.

And to my mind, at least the roads we've been down, we've seen quite a lot more reform placards than we have Labour.

But that's not necessarily, you know, indicative of the result.

But

Let's just hear a very brief montage of a few of the voices we've spoken to on the ground.

Persis and I, I think, have been struck by the number of people who are voting either reform or restore, which has also been quite striking.

Well, interestingly, we spoke to one chap in his 60s who just retired, had run a bakery that had been in his family for three generations.

And he said to us that immigration, illegal immigration is out of control.

Other people we spoke to in Hindley said that they had met the local Restore candidate and she had come across really well.

And we spoke to a woman who said she had voted for reform at the last election, but will be voting for a restore next week after being more convinced of their policies after reading about them online.

thing i just add on on restore as well is you know i did challenge people about whether they viewed restore as far right as extremist and they were pains to say you know i'm not racist i don't believe they're racist it's legal immigration that's got out of control i think that is at odds with their policies which are hardline nativist but it's interesting how they're being read by some of their supporters

Jim, I've also been struck by how much Belfast is playing out here.

People have brought up, unprompted, the word beheading, obviously referring to

the heinous scenes we saw in belfast in recent days and some of the violent disorder that's erupted since then people talking a lot about stabbings that are taking place throughout the country them feeling scared have you picked that up and people you've been speaking to

And Jen, I mean, the word pogrom has been used about some of the activity we've seen in Northern Ireland with people, I think nurses, non-white nurses being stopped trying to enter a hospital where they're on their way to work and ask for their nationality with some being allowed in and some not.

I mean, that is a shocking kind of scene we've not seen in this country for a very long time.

Let's turn to talk about Andy Burnham at the Hustings.

He did make this comment about having stuck by the Hillsborough families when in opposition and then when he went into power, doing right by them.

He said he would do the same for the WASPI women, this cohort of women born in the 1950s who claim that they were improperly

informed about changes to the state pension age and therefore they have lost out in terms of their pension.