Restore Britain running in the Makerfield by-election is "good news" for Andy Burnham, Britain's top pollster has said. Professor Sir John Curtice said Rupert Lowe's right-wing party was making life "much more difficult" for Nigel Farage's Reform UK. It comes as a new poll by Survation put Labour in the lead for the crunch ballot with 43% and Reform just behind on 40%, but Restore Britain was third with 7%. Sir John said the by-election, which the Greater Manchester Mayor is using in a bid to return to Westminster to challenge the PM, is "on an absolute knife-edge". He told...