00:00The Green Party has secured a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, beating Reform UK into second
00:06place and crushing the governing Labour Party.
00:09Winning candidate Hannah Spencer took almost 15,000 votes following the highest turnout for any UK by-election since 1983.
00:16In her victory speech, Spencer championed a hard-left economic message and condemned the scapegoating of the area's Muslim population.
00:24The Greens have surged in national polls under new leader Zach Polanski, a charismatic left populist who is campaigning to
00:31nationalize utilities and withdraw the UK from NATO.
00:34Thursday's result shows Reform and the Greens are increasingly dominating Britain's political discourse and that the traditional dominant parties are
00:42in irreversible decline.
00:44Despite the defeat, Nigel Farage's Reform UK continues to lead nationwide surveys, though the party remains dodged by allegations of
00:51far-right extremism.
00:53Meanwhile, the result is a humiliating blow for Keir Starmer, who is now judged by some pollsters to be the
00:59most unpopular prime minister in modern British history.
01:03With major local and national elections set for May, the Starmer government now faces the growing threat of an immediate
01:09leadership challenge.
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