With just over a week to go till polling day, tis the season for endorsements from publications and public figures. We’ve published our leader in tomorrow’s Spectator setting out why this election is too important to not take sides. There’s been plenty of debate about the New Statesman’s unusual refusal to endorse Labour, arguing that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be Prime Minister. But the most bizarre endorsement of the day comes from Ivan Lewis, who is re-standing in Bury South.
He may have his name on the ballot paper, but Lewis has taken the odd step of asking voters not to back him. Lewis was a Labour MP but resigned the whip following allegations of sexual harassment, and is re-standing as an independent. Today he apologised to those who had already sent in their postal votes, but said he thought the best thing to prevent a Corbyn government would be for his constituents to vote Tory.
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