Labour chooses Angeliki Stogia for Gorton and Denton byelection | Labour

The Labour party has selected its candidate to fight the Gorton and Denton byelection.

Angeliki Stogia, a Manchester city councillor, was chosen to fight the seat after a hustings event and vote by local members.

The byelection was triggered by the resignation of the former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne because of ill health.

Gwynne remains under a parliamentary standards investigation into a scandal involving a WhatsApp group – called Trigger Me Timbers – that shared inflammatory comments about constituents, local party members and other MPs, which led to him being suspended by Labour.

Labour is facing competition in the seat from both Reform, which has picked Matthew Goodwin, a former academic who is now a hard-right activist to be their candidate, and the Greens, which are vying for the anti-Reform vote with their candidate Hannah Spencer, a Manchester plumber.