The Green Party just made Keir Starmer yesterday's man and beat Farage's Reform, for good measure.

The Gorton and Denton bye-election. What a win! Proud to say that I campaigned in this.

https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/27/the-greens-just-made-keir-starmer-yesterdays-man/

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Northwest · M

Congratulations. How significant is this? 5 MPs out of 650. I know very little about her.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Northwest Its a fair question.

Yes, five MPs is nothing to write home about but several important caveats apply.

1) 5 is the most the Green Party has ever had.
2) The Green Party is polling almost level with Labour nationally.
3) Gorton and Denton wasa Labour 'safe' seat and 127 on the Green target list. Thought borderline unwinnable.
4) The Starmer Labour government has performed so poorly and pissed off its progressive base sooooo much that its one remaining credible argument was 'vote for us to keep out Farage because nobody else can win.' Now they can.

So this matters, nationally as well as locally. It also means that the Overton Window in this country now has a national force pushing it leftwards.