Can Andy Burnham win in Makerfield?
This would be no ordinary by-election
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Ben Walker
Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman and the co-founder of Britain Elects. He needed to be asked twice to write this bio. ben.walker@newstatesman.co.uk
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