One candidate told the Mirror many had hoped this might mean financial help. Another candidate told the Guardian: "Whether you invested emotional energy, time, resources, whatever – we all gave so much, as did those around us. But a defeated candidate said community organisers "damaged" their campaign adding: "I had to ask that my community organiser was kept away. "A lot of the time we had no idea what the community organisers were doing in our patches. The candidate added community organisers' wages would "definitely" have to be declared on local returns for the places they worked.

Source: Daily Mirror January 29, 2020 10:41 UTC