We speak to the Liberal Democrat candidate, Gordon Birtwistle, about how he is feeling about tonight’s result and how the past six weeks on the campaign trail have been:
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00:00Well, it's looking very positive at the moment, particularly in the areas where the Asian
00:05community live. It seems very, very, very positive indeed. We just watched a full box
00:11and there was only four votes against us, so it's looking very positive, but there's
00:16a long way to go yet, a long way to go yet, but we are positive.
00:20We've been helped by a group of individuals who've set up an independent group called
00:25BBB, Burnley Brightfield Votes, which are completely independent. They've discussed
00:34to us, barraged to us, they're not very clever people, and they've wheeled a massive
00:38campaign on our behalf, and it looks like it's paying off. We'll see what happens.
00:45There's time to go yet, a long way to go yet. We've been in this game for too long.