‘A sectarian travesty’: The Greens’ dirty tricks in Gorton and Denton exposed
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s election day in Gorton and Denton, and the polls are so tight it’s impossible to call a winner. The campaign itself has been an ugly one, with each party accusing the other of dirty tricks and the Greens accused of “manipulating” an area with a large Muslim population in an attempt to divide the contest along religious lines.
Telegraph columnist Allister Heath decries this “retrograde step towards sectarianism” as a “disaster for democracy”, as elections should be “decided on whether policies are good or bad, not whether you win the demographic war”.
Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim reflect on damaging revelations by the Daily Telegraph that reveal a very different picture about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s final visit to “say goodbye” to Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2010.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | The Gorton and Denton by-election is too close to call, and that might explain some of the grubby tactics used by both Labour and the Greens in their desperate bid to stop reform. |
| 0:20.0 | Sunday Telegraph editor Alastair Heath has called the sectarian nature of the Labor and the Greens in their desperate bid to stop reform. |
| 0:26.2 | Sunday Telegraph editor Alistair Heath has called the sectarian nature of this vote abominable and warns us what might happen if the Greens win. |
| 0:30.8 | And the former Prince Andrew has always insisted that he visited New York in December 2010 |
| 0:35.9 | to say goodbye to his friend Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 0:39.3 | the convicted peter file. |
| 0:40.3 | But emails in the Epstein files, reviewed for the first time by the telegraph, |
| 0:44.3 | reveal a very different picture of parties, exclusive dinners, |
| 0:49.3 | and visits by young women to the financiers Manhattan Mansion. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to the Daily T with me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:55.9 | And me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 1:07.1 | Tim has Zach Palanski been in touch? |
| 1:10.1 | Have we, the lesser-spotted Palanski? I still? Have we, the lesser spotted Palanski? |
| 1:13.1 | I still haven't found him either. |
| 1:14.6 | Maybe we'll find him next week or the future week. |
| 1:17.4 | We look forward to having him in here for a green tea. |
| 1:21.6 | Gorton and Denton, it's on a knife edge. |
| 1:23.6 | We're going to be bringing everybody a super emergency by election special podcast tomorrow morning. |
| 1:30.3 | Yes. |
| 1:30.9 | As soon as we know the result. |
| 1:31.8 | Unless it's a really close count, what are we going to do if it's a close count? |
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