Denton and Reddish Labour candidate Andrew Gwynne has faced a long, turbulent day, but thinks his party’s ‘positive’ campaign will see them home.
The shadow deputy health minister told MM how his day started with some 5am leaflet distribution, but ended up in hospital, where he was forced to obtain an emergency proxy vote for a stricken family member.
But Gwynne, who has held the Tameside seat since 2005, is convinced that the exit polls released earlier – which have the Tories winning by a significant margin – will prove to be erroneous.
“I think we’ve fought a really positive campaign,” Gwynne said.
“We’ve fought on the issues that certainly the Conservatives didn’t want to talk about, the things that really matter to people in Denton and Reddish.
“I’ve seen the BBC exit polls and I’m not sure I quite believe it.
“If you look at all the opinion polls from all the polling companies in the last few days it has actually shown it to be much closer, with a swing to the Labour Party.
“I think that this is an unusual general election because usually you can paint a national image and a national swing from the opinion polls.
“I think that actually what you will see is that 650 very different sets elections up and down the country and this election will be won or lost on a seat by seat basis.”
