{"id":319187,"date":"2026-02-27T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:31:07","slug":"chris-mason-drama-has-swirled-ahead-of-gorton-and-denton-by-election-test-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319187\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: Drama has swirled ahead of Gorton and Denton by-election test &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1DLUNZWnhwQXVYdER2a200dW1YSWlLU2dHRk41UW9YZklNbzNqSGF1Um42YnRCRkpNeFg0LVl1WGJWLVVLc3JydWJvTDNsamNYMzFxdkZ1VzY3dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Mason: Drama has swirled ahead of Gorton and Denton by-election test<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiVEFVX3lxTFBKZVpjSjRiWTZXQTlPLTV5cEkwVEhralRxTW9NalRydWNZUVZXRXJ4cGp4VXFNd21XT0FjRThrMEZDVDdDeHJIV1FGYXI1bjMzellUZQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Votes being counted in Gorton and Denton by-election<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxOeVRXRVA2bG1ETmhRQXFLVmp1VUExMHpXZlJpRy1PcFhjTVIzNHRNMm9qaUtCc3R6Znd0bF9scjRhTi0yVzJQQ082Sk5ac3JEYzY1YzlqX1k3NUo0amhOb1l4UUk5eEFjbzV5TkhfOGJENFZRU3J6cGZuV2MtRUQ0aXpuZ25VLVFzQzNLR2tvY2g2OHB3c1NtTGI0cWlaUng2Y2NYdjFoM1lNMjlJVmIwSGVB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How a Manchester byelection is potentially seismic for shape of British politics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizgFBVV95cUxONnpVUmZxd1R4MGZoYkJ6Sk03SWhtZGY1bmdiMUZKbDZpREtGUW9RTTk3el9paW1OUDc0dTdDTXMxZnR6eVdsaWVnNUVOcDI5ZUh5aG8tdGFzbnBCd2FaOHN5aElQaUJ1Wjk3WHpYUVRhZHl6YVYzLW5pclNpTVVxaXppVHZVT1VDQXRraURWUklZLVJDbnBQSWdIa1g5ZmF6UFA5Y3pTYXV2RVU5anAzVlZJeWRISXRZaXhreDNrbUlhOV96Q29aZkZ1V0tMQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Polls close in Gorton and Denton byelection after three-way battle between Greens, Labour and Reform<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxOc0pEZThHT2RzbDlSUTV6bm5jdnRsR0VReXB2c3BranJoT21KRWgzaEJvbVVLbzl6WlNjNTZYZ25ZRlhEVmpIWFdFMGhJR3VwRS01WGJTNTFROWkyOURtS1UwczdhVmM5Nmx2R3hleFY4aTZyelB1OUlMVzhsSFFMdXZRLTZJRV84SXJ4U1JUb1FQRVJrTktBcmdOZHUxclU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Don\u2019t panic but this vote could end Starmerism<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: Drama has swirled ahead of Gorton and Denton by-election test&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCVotes being counted in Gorton and Denton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-319187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}