This is how punditry works: if Keir Starmer had let Andy Burnham run for Gorton and Denton, I’d have said he was weak. Block ...

The Green Party also announced its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election on Friday morning. The candidate, Hannah Spencer is the leader of the Green Party group on Trafford Council and was ...

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham seeks approval to fight key by-election, which has sparked fresh leadership tensions inside ...

Bev Craig had been tipped to be the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election after the NEC refused to allow Andy ...

Nigel Farage is visiting Gorton and Denton in Manchester today to support Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin’s by-election ...

EVEN for the blood sport that is modern politics, the Gorton and Denton by-election is proving a vicious, poisonous affair. The south-east Manchester seat has already witnessed the strangulation ...

Follow our live coverage as the pressure increases on Sir Keir Starmer at the worst possible time.

As voters polarised around the question of leaving the EU —which most Londoners opposed—the city swung towards Labour. The share of marginal seats which were in London fell from 14% in 2015 to 8% in ...

The prime minister has said he will ‘raise the issues that need to be raised’ on human rights in talks with Xi Jinping tomorrow ...

The Greater Manchester mayor was sensationally blocked from standing as an MP in the Gorton and Denton by-election, just a ...

Andy Burnham's Everton host Leeds United in the Premier League after a disappointing weekend for the Mayor of Greater ...

Scots have “100 days to save our NHS”, Scottish Labour has claimed as parties have laid out their elections stalls. The ...