The Greens' pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection as Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and councillor, was elected as the party’s first MP in northern England after overturning Labour’s 13,000-vote majority. Labour finished third in the tightly contested race, 5,616 votes behind the Greens on 14,980 votes, while Reform UK finished second with 10,578 votes. The Greens’ victory in a Labour stronghold was its first ever in a Westminster byelection and establishes the party as a serious political force and a credible anti-Reform alternative

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