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Leader Zack Polanski believes the Gorton and Denton by-election will be a race between the Greens and Reform

Leader Zack Polanski said it was a race between the Greens and Reform UK.

The Prime Minister was also asked if the Gorton and Denton poll should be viewed as a referendum on his premiership.

Labour Party chair Anna Turley wrote to Matt Goodwin urging him to make clear whether he will welcome the activist’s backing.

‘We would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency don’t exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,’ says one Labour MP

Councillor Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, was announced as the Green candidate.

Hannah Spencer, a Trafford councillor and plumber, ran as the party’s candidate for mayor of Manchester in 2024

Party ready to pour resources into byelection after ‘game-changing’ barring of Greater Manchester mayor

Sixty-three council seats were up for grabs in the wards Altrincham, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Bowdon, Broadheath, Brooklands, Bucklow-St Martins, Davyhulme, Flixton, Gorse Hill and Cornbrook, Hale, Hale Barnes and Timperley South, Longford, Lockstock and Barton, Manor, Old Trafford, Sale Central, Sale Moor, Stretford and Humphrey, Timperley Central, Timperley North and Urmston