Green Party secures historic by-election win

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Green Party secures historic by-election win

Greens comfortably beat Reform in Gorton and Denton by-election, as Labour pushed into third place

The Green Party is this morning celebrating an historic victory, after it won the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester by more than 4,000 votes. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green Party...

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