Christmas parties at the Playboy Club, the Strangeways 'Bat-Signal' and learning to swim at Broughton Baths: MP Jonathan Ashworth on his Greater Manchester roots
When former Playboy Bunny Girl and journalist Susan Wallace heard MP Jonathan Ashworth unexpectedly mention the Manchester Playboy Club during a keynote fringe event at Labour Party Conference, her ears pricked up. It turns out he has the late Hugh Hefner’s fancy of a punt on Canal Street in 1973 to thank for bringing his Mancunian parents - Jon and Marie - together.


