'It's like driving over the surface of Mars the potholes are so bad'
Like many Wiganers, Rober Kenyon grew up in a staunchly Labour-supporting family, but when the Reform UK Makerfield candidate grew old enough to think for himself, his own allegiance to the party now led by Sir Keir Starmer drifted away. Even so, having been raised in a town where the coal mining industry was controversially decimated by the Conservative government of the 1980s, hitching his wagon to the Tories was ‘unthinkable’.
