‘A pollster’s nightmare’: stakes are high in three-way fight for Gorton and Denton

Green party volunteers campaigning in Denton. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

As Nigel Farage cut the ribbon on Reform UK’s byelection headquarters in Greater Manchester this week, Labour’s candidate, Angeliki Stogia, sat tearfully in a cafe nearby.

Politicians do not often show their emotion but for Stogia, who arrived in Britain as a student from Greece in 1995, this is personal. “I am angry,” she said of Farage’s party. “I am very, very angry. How dare they come here and spread this division?”