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Here

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I am at the wonderful Gorton Monastery.

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It's really something special. Indeed,

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this whole constituency is it's special

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because of the people who live in it.

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Many of whom I'm going to encounter this

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evening at the first election hustings

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of the campaign. Those that are standing

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against me to become the member of

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parliament for the Manchester Borton

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constituency will have to face the music

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and face the public because you can't

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run an election campaign from a

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helicopter. You can't run an election

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campaign from carefully handpicked uh

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audiences that are guaranteed to agree

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with you or sworn to silence if they

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don't. Tonight might be boisterous.

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We're going to be discussing the local

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issues. what Gorton needs in order to

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catch up because it has been left

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behind. Anyone who, as I did yesterday,

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walked around the Gorton North Ward

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knows just how poor and how deprived,

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how neglected this whole area is. It's

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an area where there's mass poverty and

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underinvestment in the public

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infrastructure and in public services.

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And I'll be fighting for the Manchester

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Gen constituency to catch up. And when

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I'm fighting for something, everybody

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knows about it.