{"id":400718,"date":"2026-01-31T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:20:06","slug":"labour-chooses-angeliki-stogia-for-gorton-and-denton-byelection-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400718\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour chooses Angeliki Stogia for Gorton and Denton byelection | Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/labour\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour<\/a> party has selected its candidate to fight the Gorton and Denton byelection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Angeliki Stogia, a Manchester city councillor, was chosen to fight the seat after a hustings event and vote by local members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The byelection was triggered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jan\/22\/andrew-gwynne-pension-deal-could-open-path-commons-andy-burnham\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the resignation of the former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne<\/a> because of ill health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gwynne remains under a parliamentary standards investigation into a scandal involving a WhatsApp group \u2013 called Trigger Me Timbers \u2013 that shared inflammatory comments about constituents, local party members and other MPs, which led to him being suspended by Labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Labour party has selected its candidate to fight the Gorton and Denton byelection. Angeliki Stogia, a Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}