MANCHESTER, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party suffered defeat on Friday in an election in an area of Greater Manchester that it had dominated for almost a century, a loss that underscores the breakdown of Britain’s decades-old two-party politics.
The left-leaning Green Party’s Hannah Spencer won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton with 14,980 votes, the first time the party has won a one-off parliamentary election.
The candidate for Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK party came second with 10,587 votes, while the governing Labour came third with 9,364 votes.
(Writing by Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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