With just two and a half weeks to go until the town's key byelection, the office ought to have been a hive of activity with the party seeking to defend and perhaps even build on the 9,668 majority left by Rochdale's last MP, Tony Lloyd, who died in January.
It was unfortunate timing that it was on Tuesday that households in Rochdale began receiving a leaflet from Labour with Ali's smiling face on it. Labour had paid the Royal Mail thousands of pounds to deliver the literature to every house in the constituency and it was too late to cancel.
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