Green party’s Gorton and Denton win is wake-up call Labour needed to hear

Labour billed it as ‘two-horse race’ with Reform, but Green candidate Hannah Spencer’s media campaign, and authenticity, won the day UK politics live – latest updates From the outset of the Gorton and Denton byelection, Labour strategists were desperate to say the party was on course to win, but the party’s trouncing at the hands of the Greens has made this look laughable in hindsight. Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary, sent a note to No 10 at the end of January saying it was “clear...

By Rowena Mason, Josh Halliday and Jessica Elgot