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In a spectacular triumph, Britain’s Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester.
Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become the party’s fifth MP — a historic victory for the ascendent Greens, who ran a campaign of national hope and international solidarity against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The byelection result is also a huge upset in Britain’s political status quo.
The Labour party, which won the seat with more than 50 percent of the vote in 2024 and held the seat for many years, was pushed into third place behind Reform UK. No more.
After coming third behind the Greens and Reform, questions over the future of the party’s leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, now grow increasingly urgent.
Meanwhile, Reform UK came second. On their own terms, a result.
Clear defeat by Left
And yet, a clear defeat by the Left. Its candidate, Matt Goodwin, along with the party as a whole, will now be taking stock, disappointed that a major target constituency has rejected them.
The Greens stormed the seat and Spencer won a majority of more than 4000 despite a race sullied by dirty tricks and cynicism from a Labour Party that appeared desperate at every turn.
Tactics included an invented electoral organisation and misinformation over polling. A last ditch effort to transport Starmer to the constituency may have amounted to a final and fatal backfire.
This is the second byelection loss to the Green Party since Labour’s general election victory in 2024.
Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz
Evening Report: https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/local-plumber-hannah-spencer-beats-both-reform-and-labour-to-win-uk-byelection/