Here
I am at the wonderful Gorton Monastery.
It's really something special. Indeed,
this whole constituency is it's special
because of the people who live in it.
Many of whom I'm going to encounter this
evening at the first election hustings
of the campaign. Those that are standing
against me to become the member of
parliament for the Manchester Borton
constituency will have to face the music
and face the public because you can't
run an election campaign from a
helicopter. You can't run an election
campaign from carefully handpicked uh
audiences that are guaranteed to agree
with you or sworn to silence if they
don't. Tonight might be boisterous.
We're going to be discussing the local
issues. what Gorton needs in order to
catch up because it has been left
behind. Anyone who, as I did yesterday,
walked around the Gorton North Ward
knows just how poor and how deprived,
how neglected this whole area is. It's
an area where there's mass poverty and
underinvestment in the public
infrastructure and in public services.
And I'll be fighting for the Manchester
Gen constituency to catch up. And when
I'm fighting for something, everybody
knows about it.