Labour's Wakefield by-election candidate has vowed to give local people a voice in Westminster as he insisted, “I’m not an outsider”.
Simon Lightwood from South Shields, South Tyneside, was selected last month to battle the Tories and win back the Red Wall seat in the crunch by-election on June 23.
It angered some within Labour circles, with activists claiming Mr Lightwood was unfit to represent the city because he was not born and bred there.
