More plumbers and plasterers should become MPs says Green in maiden speech Hannah Spencer triumphed for the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election in February. Evening Standard · Mar 12
While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep political crisis will continue The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis The Guardian - UK · Mar 8
Starmer ‘too scared’ after by-election loss to support Trump’s war in Iran, Badenoch says Starmer faced a humiliating by-election defeat in Gorton and Denton to the Green Party last week The Independent UK · Mar 7
I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken Since the Gorton and Denton victory, I have travelled the UK and seen the energy that result unleashed. More will follow, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party The Guardian - UK · Mar 7
Labour beats Reform UK with first council by-election gain in almost a year Sir Keir Starmer’s party has lost over 50 council seats in polls called since the last local elections Evening Standard · Mar 6
Labour 'risks losing 600 seats' in London local elections in worse nightmare than Gorton disaster Sir Keir Starmer’s party is facing tough battles against the Greens, Reform UK, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems Evening Standard · Mar 4
Late deciders, higher turnout: what the Gorton and Denton byelection taught us about voters Hannah Spencer’s win in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection was a momentous victory for the Green party. The party’s first-ever byelection win overturned a large Labour majority and put the general election winners into third place, behind Reform UK. The Conversation · Mar 3
Zack Polanski's Greens surge in London - could they even be in first place ahead of Labour? New poll comes ahead of the May local elections when Labour is expected to suffer heavy losses in the capital Evening Standard · Mar 3
Embattled Starmer tells Labour MPs his leadership represents the ‘mainstream majority’ The prime minister addressed a meeting of Labour MPs for the first time since the party suffered a humiliating defeat last week in Gorton and Denton The Independent UK · Mar 2
Farage: Reform candidate would have won by-election if only UK citizens voted The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer triumphed in the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Reform’s Matt Goodwin coming second. Evening Standard · Mar 2
New Green Party MP Hannah Spencer sworn in to Parliament after by-election win The new Gorton and Denton MP was called forward by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle at the start of parliamentary business on Monday. Evening Standard · Mar 2
Byelection trouncing has lessons for Labour Letters: Readers respond to the Green party’s victory in Gorton and Denton The Guardian - UK · Mar 1
Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris The Guardian - UK · Mar 1
Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat The Guardian - UK · Mar 1
The Guardian - UK · Mar 1 Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
The Guardian - UK · Mar 1 Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’
The Independent UK · Feb 28 Starmer’s deputy tells him to ‘be more like Andy Burnham’ as he fights to survive as PM In the aftermath of the Gorton and Denton by-election humiliation for Labour, deputy leader Lucy Powell has been critical of the decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor from standing as the party’s candidate
Evening Standard · Feb 28 Home Secretary to warn Labour to resist leftward shift after by-election loss The result of Thursday’s poll saw Labour come third behind Zack Polanski’s Greens and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the seat.
Evening Standard · Feb 27 Gorton and Denton by-election bombshell: Five big takeaways The by-election was a devastating blow for Sir Keir Starmer as Labour were pushed into a humiliating third place
The Independent UK · Feb 27 Starmer finds himself in a great Green mess – and he is now in the last chance saloon THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the PM is to rebound from this disastrous result and fend off Zack Polanski from Labour's left flank, he must drop every distraction and ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27 ‘Our own people hate us’: reality check for Labour as 13,000 majority vanishes Party billed it as a two-horse race with Reform but Greens’ Hannah Spencer connected with voters in a way it could not
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27 The Guardian view on Gorton and Denton: a warning shot across Labour’s bows Editorial: Hannah Spencer’s win was more than protest. It signalled that Labour’s moral language and coalition are up for grabs in its safest terrain
The Conversation · Feb 27 Why isn’t the Greens’ growing success reflected in media coverage? The victory of the Greens in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection is a landmark for the party. But our new research reveals the Greens have received limited airtime over the last year despite almost doubling their support in the polls and in party membership.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27 Labour MPs demand Starmer change course after humiliating byelection loss Scale of defeat to Greens has plunged party into fresh despair and again raised prospect of leadership challenge
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27 A rounded response on boulders’ origins Brief letters: Stone lifting | A good result | Gorton and Denton lessons | Metres v millions