But she warned “working hard used to get you something” as she outlined her desire to help those people who are struggling with the cost of living.
Spencer said: “Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry.
“And I don’t think it’s extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life.”
She added: “I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life.”
Palestinian flags featured on Spencer’s leaflets and she made clear during the campaign that she believed a “genocide” was taking place in Gaza.
Spencer, who used a campaign video to say she spends her “life fixing things that are broken”, also said she wanted to end privatisation in the NHS and nationalise water companies.
Spencer worked as a plumber after leaving education aged 16, and started 2026 with the ambition of “new year, new trade”.
She explained she had returned to college to start a full-time plastering course, but within weeks she was combining this training – commuting by car to a college in Stoke – with her campaigning efforts in Gorton and Denton.
Spencer posted on LinkedIn about how she had “slowly taught myself and done bits” of plastering in recent years, but had signed-up for an intensive course to ensure she could “cover more parts of a project”.
Spencer added: “Plus, I just really love trying something new and not stopping until I crack it.”