Labour accuses the Greens of a “grubby deal” in the Gorton and Denton by-election, but it's backfired exposing Labour’s own panic and hypocrisy. Right, so Labour is attacking the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election by accusing them of cheating and cowardice at the same time, and in doing that it has blown up its own case for why it deserves to win this seat at all. What Labour is saying is simple. It’s calling it a “grubby deal” that two smaller parties chose not to stand and said, publicly, that the Greens were best placed to beat Labour and Reform. And it’s calling it “bottling it” that the Greens selected a local candidate instead of parachuting their deputy leader into the race. So not splitting the vote is corruption, and picking someone from the area is weakness. That’s the attack. And once you understand that, the rest of the behav ...