How a man who angered neighbours by filling his house with goats may have cost Labour Runcorn by-election

REFORM won the Runcorn by-election by just six votes. A Labour activist told me that she thinks she knows the reason: Goat Man.

In one ward, there is a man who has apparently filled his derelict house with goats and burns their manure in his ­garden.

A garden in Runcorn filled with goats and manure could have swung voters in the close-run constituencyGetty Nigel Farage’s Reform swept in to take the Labour seat in Runcorn with residents fed-upAlamy

Residents have complained but nothing happened.