Amanda Milling, the party s co-chairman, said footage of Mr Hancock breaching Covid rules by kissing a married aide was something that came up on the doorstep in Batley, suggesting that Tory voters could have defected to Labour over the incident.
Labour sources in Ms Leadbeater’s campaign said the party had seen surprising levels of support in the constituency s traditionally Conservative areas, such as in the villages of the Spen Valley, while the party was campaigning in the week after the affair was revealed.
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