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What this election has demonstrated is that people are quite sick of traditional politics.

I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber. I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do.

How do these political parties adapt to that and, you know, Labour, it's a real sort of crisis for them. I think they'll have to do some real soul searching. I think we are moving into an era of multi-party politics.

A massive victory for the Green Party in a critical by-election.

So is this the end of two-party politics as we know it?

From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest.

Meet Lucy Hoff.

Well, joining me is Hannah Al-Othman, Guardian North of England correspondent.

Thanks so much for joining us, Hannah, literally just off the train from Manchester,

where you've been up covering the Gorton and Denton by election.

Have you had any sleep?

Two hours, maybe.

Better than zero.

So in the last few weeks in the run-up, in the coverage to this election, it has really felt like it's been too close to call that it was all to play for between Labor, Greens and Reform.

And even when I went to bed last night, about half two, it was still too close to call, but the Greens were starting to make some advances.

But obviously this morning, it wasn't just a victory, but a resounding win for the Green Party.

What was it like overnight? Because you've been with Hannah Spencer, who is now an MP.

So when we're at the count, sort of when we got there, we were prepared, you know, we'd got our snacks in, we've got our big bottles of Diet Coke because we thought we might be in, you know, several recount territory, obviously.

The last one in Roncon, Halesby, that went down to six votes. So that was kind of what we were prepared for. Before they count the votes, they sort of verify them all and each party have people observing

and they sort of start taking a tally of what they can see from those ballot papers. And so,

you know, that was quite clear before any votes had even been counted that the Greens were

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