Overview
- Voters in the Greater Manchester seat will choose a new MP on 26 February after Labour’s Andrew Gwynne resigned in January.
- Greater Manchester Police received a complaint about Reform campaign letters circulated without the legally required imprint, and the printing contractor admitted and apologised for a production error.
- Nigel Farage made his second visit in a week and opened Reform’s Denton campaign HQ with candidate Matt Goodwin, who frames the vote as a referendum on Keir Starmer.
- Recent models and limited polling suggest a tight race, with some MRPs placing Reform narrowly ahead of Labour and others projecting a Labour hold, as the Greens push to capitalise on disaffected left-of-Labour voters.
- Labour selected councillor Angeliki Stogia after blocking Andy Burnham, the Greens are running Hannah Spencer, and Your Party figures including Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are urging support for the Greens rather than fielding their own candidate.