The alleged threat to withdraw funding from a school in Radcliffe if an MP didn’t toe the party line has been branded ‘appalling’ by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.
Chrstian Wakeford, representing Bury South, who defected from the Conservatives to Labour this week, claimed on Thursday that he was threatened with a roll-back on funding if he did not vote with the Government.
On Sunday, Mr Burnham, who conceded he’d heard ‘dark mutterings’ of posturing and power plays during his time in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet, told the Manchester Evening News he’d never before known young people’s education to be put at risk to influence a vote.
