
“If you go to Selby town it’s like going to New York and thinking the whole of America is Democrat,” explains John Grogan.
The former MP for Selby tells this to Labour colleagues trekking to the North Yorkshire constituency, which now includes villages in the more rural Ainsty area, so they don’t get carried away over the prospects of overturning a 20,137 Tory majority to win the by-election there.