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.<\/p>\n
Spencer said: “Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry.<\/p>\n
“And I don’t think it’s extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life.”<\/p>\n
She added: “I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life.”<\/p>\n
Palestinian flags featured on Spencer’s leaflets and she made clear during the campaign that she believed a “genocide” was taking place in Gaza.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Spencer worked as a plumber after leaving education aged 16, and started 2026 with the ambition of “new year, new trade”.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
Spencer added: “Plus, I just really love trying something new and not stopping until I crack it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But she warned “working hard used to get you something” as she outlined her desire to help those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-448577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}