Overview
- At a Manchester Evening News hustings, Labour’s Angeliki Stogia accused Reform’s Matthew Goodwin of demonising immigrants, while Goodwin cited security threats and argued migration policy is failing.
- Reform UK and the Green Party each cast the race as a two-horse contest that leaves Labour trailing, a characterisation Labour disputes.
- Labour cited a FindOutNow survey to claim only it can beat Reform, but the pollster and independent experts say the results rely on just 62 likely voters and cannot reliably show who is ahead.
- Professor Rob Ford complained to the returning officer after the Greens used his image and words without consent, with the party saying the leaflets were recalled and apologising.
- A Reform endorsement letter was distributed without a required imprint, prompting an apology from the printer and a police complaint, and a Conservative canvasser was filmed binning a Reform leaflet, which the party condemned.