Party teams up with independent councillor to add seat on council

Horwich and Blackrod First approached Derek Bullock, a councillor for Hulton Ward, about a working agreement towards the start of this year.

The hyper-local party started the partnership in light of the result of a by-election for Westhoughton North and Hunger Hill Ward, on November 16, where the Liberal Democrats’ Deirdre McGeown won a seat which was held by the Conservatives’ Bernadette Eckersley-Fallon previously. It left the…