It takes bottle for a politician to go door-knocking in one of Labour’s former north of England redoubts. To many people in Salford and Eccles, Greater Manchester, all MPs are a waste of time. Some voters, however, are starting to talk about Theresa May. “I think she’ll get things moving for us as a country, I really do,” said Betty Joan Filer, 70, a retired chef and loyal Labour supporter until she dumped the party over the war in Iraq. I think she might be…

Source: The Times October 08, 2016 23:03 UTC