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Setback for Labor. He Green Party has dealt a severe blow to the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, by winning the elections held in the Gorton & Denton constituency, in Manchestera hitherto solid Labor Party seat.
The Greens have managed to win for the first time in a by-election and They sank Starmer’s Labor Party to third place, while the right-wing populist formation Reform UK came second.
This puts the British Prime Minister in a difficult situation, given the rise of the extreme right, which would already be second in all the polls, and the division of the Labor vote, whose supporters no longer see the party, in the midst of the crisis of the Epstein caseas an option to get the United Kingdom out of the economic quagmire.
The Labor seat, held for the last 15 years, had been left empty in January when his deputy Andrew Gwynne resigned for health reasons, after which a movement began in the Labor Party internal dispute on the appointment of his candidate.
The mayor of Manchester, the Labor Andy Burnham, who has not hesitated to publicly challenge Starmer’s leadership, asked the party to appear, but was not allowed.
Hannah Spencer
The big surprise of these partial elections has been Hannah Spencerthe plumber and candidate of the Party, which achieved 14,980 votesfollowed by Matt Goodwinfrom Reform UK, which obtained a total of 10,578 supports; followed by Angeliki Stogia, of the Labor Party, with 9,364, practically half of the 18,555 votes in the 2024 general elections.
Electoral participation was 47.5%.
Conservative candidate Charlotte Cadden received just 706 votes, while the Liberal Democrats received 653.
With the victory, Spencer, 34, becomes the fifth member of the Green Party in Parliament.
“I didn’t grow up wanting to be a politician. I’m a plumber,” he said after confirming his victory. “I’m no different from everyone in this constituency. I work hard. That’s what we do,” he added.
Greens leader Zack Polanski said: “If we see a change like this in the next general election, “There will be a wave of new Green MPs.”
Labor, sunk
This seat had been the focus of media attention last month over Burnham’s decision to run.
The mayor of Manchester is a rising figure in Labor ranks and has been seen as a possible contender for the party leadership in the event of Starmer’s departure from power, but You must first be an MP in the House of Commons.
Given the rejection of Burnham’s candidacy by the Labor executive, the party placed Angeliki Stogia as a candidate, something that has not gone well at all.