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The Owen Jones Podcast

Labour COLLAPSING In Gorton And Denton: Will Greens Or Reform DESTROY Starmer?

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm feeling it a lot at the moment, the intensity of this by-election, which I don't think I've ever, that's not a sentence I've ever said before.

0:10.5

Andrew Gwynn will be standing down.

0:14.3

Who will stand in that by-election?

0:18.2

King of the North, Andy Burnham blocked today.

0:24.6

Politics has changed. Division is right. This by-election is our chance to send a message.

0:29.6

The Buckees have the Greens as favour.

0:32.6

Hannah Spencer, everyone!

0:34.6

Let's go out and absolutely smash it. So this is historic.

0:41.3

I don't just mean me coming back to Stopport, my hometown.

0:44.3

We are here for the big by-election, which is going to help determine the future of the country.

0:49.3

I know that sounds a bit over the top, but it isn't.

0:52.3

Here is a Labour seat we're going to, Gorton and Denton.

0:55.0

Labour won 50% of the vote last time. This time the Green Party and Reform are looking to take the seat.

1:03.0

If Labour lose, that could be the end of Kirstama and it could cement the Greens as the alternative.

1:10.0

They could replace Labour in their urban seats.

1:12.6

They won't be able to say vote for us or you get Nigel Farage

1:15.6

or it could bolster reforms onward march to power.

1:18.6

We're going to meet Ali Fogg, local campaigner.

1:21.6

He's going to take us from the constituency.

1:23.6

I'm excited.

1:26.6

So when you're knocking on doors, what are you finding? The main thing is that

1:32.5

nobody is voting labour. It's become almost impossible to find a Labour voter anywhere. When we're

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