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Local party admits sharing out of date statistics during local election campaign

In the 2026 local election campaign Josh Fenton-Glynn shared a 2019 survey as evidence of Labour’s success in running Calderdale Council - a claim subsequently shared by several prospective and serving Labour councillors. After ignoring our requests at the time for answers, Calderdale Labour have decided it's time to correct the record.

No-one was more surprised than the CIO newsdesk when a comment appeared last week on our Facebook page, from the Calderdale Labour party, requesting we update an investigation conducted during May’s local election campaign.

Back in May we reported local Labour candidates had been sharing a survey from 2019 as part of their 2026 campaigning efforts. In fairness the national newspaper survey was first shared by local MP Josh Fenton-Glynn and many Labour candidates blindly played “follow my leader” sharing the old survey far and wide.

This post was widely shared by Labour candidates during the local elections

On his Facebook page the Calder Valley MP told constituents:

“While some people want to talk our area down, it’s easy to forget we live in a pretty special place. Thanks to Labour run Calderdale Council for creating such a great environment for our children to grow up in.”

Labour has now admitted the survey so widely shared during the campaign was, in fact, from 2019 - not 2026 - saying:

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