{"id":413383,"date":"2026-02-07T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:23:07","slug":"gorton-and-denton-by-election-zack-polanski-urges-hope-over-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413383\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges &#8216;hope over hate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He responded to a letter written to him by deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell in which she said she feared he was being &#8220;played&#8221; by Reform and would allow them to win by splitting the Labour vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polanski said her claims were &#8220;absolutely absurd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The Green Party are the only party who can stop Reform and to have the Labour Party trying to wade in, trying to make themselves relevant, demonstrates what a difficult week they&#8217;ve had and what a difficult year they&#8217;ve had since gaining power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the 2024 general election, Labour won the seat with more than half of the vote &#8211; 18,555. Reform UK came second on 5,142 votes, narrowly beating the Greens with 4,810.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The by-election, which will take place on 26 February, was triggered by the resignation on health grounds of former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He responded to a letter written to him by deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell in which she said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-413383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413383","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=413383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}