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The Guardian Politics26 Feb 2026

Labour must search its conscience if Reform wins Gorton and Denton, says Green leader

Zack Polanski says Labour deliberately splitting left vote as voters head to the polls The polls have opened in the three-way battle for Gorton and Denton in south-east Manchester in one of the most unpredictable byelections in years. The Green party leader Zack Polanski said his party was “neck and neck” with Reform UK to overturn Labour’s 13,000-vote majority, and that Labour will need to “search their conscience” if Reform UK wins.Keir Starmer’s party has targeted left-leaning voters in the G

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The Guardian Politics26 Feb 2026

What a Gorton byelection win would mean for Reform, Greens and Labour

Polls put seat in three-way dead heat with Labour facing threats from Reform and Green party in once safe seat The Gorton and Denton byelection is the biggest electoral test yet for Keir Starmer before what are expected to be disastrous results for Labour in the May local elections. Polls put the race in a three-way dead heat, making it nearly impossible to call. The vote is particularly symbolic because of the threat Labour faces from Reform UK and the Green party in a once safe seat. Should La

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Express Politics25 Feb 2026

Nigel Farage issues stern Chagos Islands warning as 'turf war' set to erupt

Nigel Farage has shared a startling warning about the Chagos Islands.

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

The Guardian view on violent online rhetoric: all politicians have a duty to set a civil tone | Editorial

The ability to conduct polite debate on social media, without amplifying menaces and lies, is a basic qualification for public office The impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising due diligence before passing on material that is flatly false or offensive, is an indispensable skill for politicians in the digital age. Or it should be. It is a test failed by Simon Evans, a Reform UK councillor and

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Conservative Home25 Feb 2026

Rochelle Blakeman: The populist right likes lecturing about fertility and childlessness. Conservatives should avoid it

Conservatives should focus on improving economic outlooks and accept that overbearing political tools are often too blunt an instrument for the nuanced, sensitive matter of fertility, children and family life. The post Rochelle Blakeman: The populist right likes lecturing about fertility and childlessness. Conservatives should avoid it appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

Reform’s Matt Goodwin Faces No Fine Over “Inadvertent” Election Rule Breach

Matt Goodwin will not be sanctioned over an “honest administrative error” that saw by-election campaign leaflets printed without a Reform UK imprint – a potential violation of the Representation of the People Act 1983. Following a High Court hearing today, Justice Butcher accepted that the omission “arose from inadvertence, or some other reasonable cause of…

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BBC Politics25 Feb 2026

No sanctions over Reform's by-election rule breach

Lawyers for Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin say a printing error was responsible.

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin will not face sanctions over byelection leaflet error

High court judge accepts material distributed without legally required imprint due to inadvertent printing mistake UK politics live – latest updates Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, will not face a sanction for leaflets that omitted the party’s imprint, after a high court judge accepted this was due to an inadvertent printing error. Reform admitted that it sent about 81,000 leaflets to the constituency’s voters from a “concerned neighbour”, which did not

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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

WATCH: Labour Insists It ‘Will Continue to Work With United States’ on Paused Chagos Deal

FCDO minister Hamish Falconer provided the government’s response to an urgent question from Nigel Farage on the Chagos Islands: “I can assure this house nothing in the treaty has changed since the US administration gave their original endorsement of the deal, and we continue to work with Mauritius and the United States. The UK Government…

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour | George Monbiot

This byelection should have been a stroll for Keir Starmer’s party. Instead, all hope of defeating Matt Goodwin now seems to lie with the Greens Every barb Labour has directed at the Greens can now be returned with interest. “It’s a wasted vote.” “Do you want to see Reform in power?” New polling ahead of the crucial Gorton and Denton byelection this week, while by no means decisive, puts the Greens first on 22%, followed by Reform UK (20%), then Labour (18%), with 31% undecided. But still Keir S

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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

Non-Reform MPs Demand Government Bans Crypto Donations to Reform

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy is demanding that parties be blocked until further notice from accepting crypto donations. Only Reform currently accepts them… The parliamentary committee is made up of: 12 Labour parliamentarians 5 Tories 3 LibDems 2 crossbenchers In a letter to Steve Reed the committee demands a “moratorium” on crypto donations…

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook | Rafael Behr

Reform is promising a ‘patriotic school curriculum’ – but what does that mean? In the end it comes down to submission to the leader In September 2022, seven months into an all-out war in Ukraine that was only supposed to last a few weeks, Russian schoolchildren started compulsory patriotism lessons. Since then, Monday mornings have been set aside for “conversations about what is important” – a class on the glories of national history; western perfidy; the virtue of self-sacrifice for the Motherl

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