The Left at each others' throats. Disdain for the 'failed Tories' in Reform. But can resurgent Kemi Badenoch take advantage? LORD ASHCROFT ⊖
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Labour's message to the voters of Gorton and Denton was that only they could stop Reform. The Greens, and the voters, proved them wrong.
Andy Burnham 'to cut a deal with Polanski' as Manchester mayor tops poll to replace PM ⊖
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Labour's devastating defeat in Thursday's Gorton and Denton by-election has left Keir Starmer's leadership rivals circling ominously, with Mr Burnham the favourite.
DAN HODGES: Starmer must now accept the game is up. Forget talk of another relaunch or how voters were duped by an alliance of hard Left activists and drug-addled eco-warriors ⊖⊖
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Deep down, Keir Starmer knows. You could see it in the broadcast clip he delivered immediately after his party's catastrophic defeat in Gorton and Denton.
Andy Burnham would have won Gorton and Denton by-election if Starmer let him stand, claims Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell ⊕⊕
Lucy Powell said that the Greater Manchester Mayor would 'probably have held' the safe seat and that if he had stood 'the Greens wouldn't have gone after the seat in the same way that they did'.
Claims cousin marriages are driving illegal 'family voting' as police are urged to investigate by-election fraud allegations in crushing Green victory ⊖⊖
The row over allegations of voter fraud in the Gorton and Denton by-election deepened today after a leading academic claimed that the practice of cousin marriages was a key driver of illegal 'family …
Keir Starmer’s response to the Gorton and Denton debacle should be a government that truly, finally, reflects him | Tom Baldwin ⊖
In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that don’t really match his core beliefs. That’s changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking
Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starme…
Having romped into third place in Gorton and Denton, Labour is celebrating its success with a word salad | Marina Hyde ⊕⊕
Got battered at the polls? No problem. Just act like voters want more of what you’re selling – not considerably less
As David Lammy put it on Thursday in a dispatch from Gorton and Denton: “Only Labou…
A watershed has been crossed. The two-party system is dead and where this all ends up no one knows: ANDREW NEIL ⊖
British by-elections have long been a political spectator sport. A boisterous ritual - but the result soon forgotten and rarely of much long‑term significance. Not Gorton and Denton...
The Papers: 'Starmer on ropes' and 'nightmare for Labour' ⊕
The results of the Gorton and Denton by-election and the fallout for Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party dominate Saturday's papers.
Labour's 'grievance politics' came back to bite it in controversial Gorton and Denton by-election, Kemi Badenoch says ○
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The Tory leader said Keir Starmer's party had created the 'monster' of harvesting 'Muslim community bloc' votes.
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