Matt Goodwin will not be sanctioned over an “honest administrative error” that saw by-election campaign leaflets printed without a Reform UK imprint – a potential violation of the Representation of the People Act 1983. Following a High Court hearing today, Justice Butcher accepted that the omission “arose from inadvertence, or some other reasonable cause of a like nature, and did not arise for want of good faith“. No further action will be taken…
Reform admitted that it sent around 81,000 leaflets across the constituency from a “concerned neighbour”, without party branding. The judge ruled that both Goodwin and his electoral agent Adam Rawlinson had taken ““appropriate steps to put it right“. Polling stations open in Gorton and Denton tomorrow morning…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”