ON MAY 20 2017, a music festival took place at Tranmere Rovers’ Prenton Park stadium in Birkenhead which would produce one of the defining moments of Labour’s 2017 general election campaign.
With less than three weeks to go before the election itself, Labour rallies were being held across the country and the labour movement was continuing to grow exponentially at grassroots level.
“There’s someone special here to talk to you,” announced Jon McClure, lead singer of Reverend and the Makers who were just a couple of slots behind festival headliners, The Libertines.
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