Keir Starmer revealed this week that a visit to the home of a voter in Oldham a decade earlier had made him realise that his party had 'got it wrong' on immigration.
Pensioner Joyce Todd warned the future Prime Minister then that uncontrolled immigration was having a negative effect on her neighbourhood - a warning she reiterated this week when her name was thrust into the public sphere by his speech at Labour conference.
The Daily Mail decided to investigate Mrs Todd's claims - specifically to try to determine whether there has indeed been the kind of demographic shift she claims to have witnessed since she moved into her two-bedroom terraced house 46 years ago.
Mrs Todd, 79, and her husband Norman bought their small, terraced house in Villa Road in Oldham for just £3,000, moving in July 1979.
She now recalls that Oldham was very different then.
