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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

The hard right has high hopes in Gorton and Denton – but a grassroots fightback is under way

A pedestrian passes Labour posters in Longsight, in the Gorton and Denton constituency.
A pedestrian passes Labour posters in Longsight, in the Gorton and Denton constituency. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

“I don’t want to talk about him,” Selina Ullah said, when asked what she thought of Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter running for Reform in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection.

She would rather talk about the hope she took from the national reaction to the murder of her brother, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah – and the memorial campaign afterwards – in the same Greater Manchester constituency in 1986.

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