LABOUR insisted “Peterborough deserves better” after it was revealed that the Brexit Party’s by-election candidate was involved with the asset-stripping firm that destroyed British Steel.

Lisa Forbes, the Labour hopeful for the marginal seat in tomorrow’s by-election, said the revelation about the Thatcherite party’s candidate Mike Greene was “shocking but not surprising.”

And a trade unionist told the Morning Star it showed the Brexit Party represented “spivs and gangster capitalists” rather than ordinary people.