Greens storm Gorton and Denton by-election — as Labour slumps to third – POLITICO

LONDON — The Green Party triumphed in the Gorton and Denton by-election Friday, snatching a once-safe Labour seat from Keir Starmer’s governing party and prompting fresh questions about his strategy for staying in power.

Hannah Spencer, a plumber and local councillor who pitched a populist cost-of-living message, will be the party’s newest member of parliament having seen off both Labour and Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK in the local race.

She bagged 14,980 votes (40.6 percent) — racking up a majority of 4,402 in one of Labour’s safest seats, and helping to push the governing party into third place less than two years after Keir Starmer’s party triumphed nationwide.