Partygate is not the main things on voters' minds in Peterborough, ahead of Thursday's local election.
Nick Thulbourn, who describes himself as a "good old-fashioned Labour guy from back in the day", is hoping to unseat one of the three Conservative councillors in the Bretton ward, a largely working-class suburb that used to vote Labour.
He says the "Partygate thing" is coming up on the doorstep, but "not as much as people would expect it to, to be honest", unlike the cost of living, which is a "constant". One woman tells him she has already cast her vote for him by post because he had some "nasty graffiti" removed from a nearby fence. The new paint job looks a bit like an elephant, she jokes.
She does not need any prompting to get angry about Boris Johnson's flouting of lockdown rules - "he is saying one thing and doing another. It's not right" - but she says it will not prevent her from voting for Mr Warren on Thursday.Others raise Partygate on the doorstep, with one man expressing anger about the government's handling of the pandemic. Mr Warren deals with it by distancing himself from events in Downing Street.
She has helped the Greens win three council seats from the Conservatives "on the bounce", she says, through hard work and being available to constituents day and night."People are so grateful to have councillors they can talk to pretty much any time."If the opposition parties succeed in gaining the three or four seats needed to remove the Conservatives from power on Thursday, Labour will have to strike some kind of deal with the Greens and the Liberal Democrats .
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