Green Party shakes up the Gorton by-election as a local plumber takes on Labour’s machine politics and Reform’s media grift in ManchesterRight, so the Greens have just selected a local plumber, Hannah Spencer as their candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Labour has of course blocked Andy Burnham from standing, and a privately commissioned by-election poll by one of their donors managed to circulate allegedly without ever being properly published, the sample size being so small as it was, yet is now growing to be a bigger and bigger scandal for Labour in a seat they already had only a slim chance of defending. What we have now is a locally chosen tradesperson, someone who literally fixes stuff for a living, standing to fix the constituency, up against Reform UK’s TV pundit from Hertfordshire and a leadership-managed nominee from Labour, ...