It’s not the byelection win that matters but the scale of the swing to Zack Polanski’s party.
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High numbers of undecideds may partially explain the late swing to the Greens.
Spencer won the Gorton and Denton byelection for the Green party.
Spencer’s win brings the Green’s parliamentary group to five MPs.
Things will get worse before they might get better for Labour.
Polling byelections is notoriously difficult so to predict a winner, you need to combine a variety of data.
One one in ten residents in England take the same view as Reform’s candidate for Gorton and Denton.
The Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton has been expressing his views on what makes someone English or British.
Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform’s candidate in a byelection for what should have been a safe Labour seat in Manchester.
The mayor of Manchester will not be allowed to stand in a byelection – which would have been his first step to challenging Keir Starmer for the party leadership.
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