comes third, behind the Greens and the far right, in a partial election

The Greens have managed to win for the first time in a by-election and They sank Starmer’s Labor Party to third place, while the far-right populist formation Reform UK came in second position.

And they have achieved it with Hannah Spencera plumber who is only 34 years old, who achieved the 40.7% of the votes, 27 points more than in the previous elections.

This puts Starmer in a difficult situation, given the rise of the extreme right, second in all polls, and the division of the Labor vote, whose supporters no longer see the party, in the midst of the crisis of the Epstein caseas an option to get the United Kingdom out of the social and economic crisis.

The Labor seat, held almost since 1935, had been left empty in January when his deputy Andrew Gwynne resigned for health reasons, after which a movement began in the Labor Party internal dispute on the appointment of his candidate.

The mayor of Manchester, the Labor Andy Burnham, who has not hesitated to publicly challenge Starmer’s leadership, asked the party to appear, but was not allowed.

With a strong population of Pakistani origin and a high rate of child povertythe seat had been almost continuously in Labor hands since 1935.

Hannah Spencer

The big surprise of these partial elections has been Hannah Spencerthe plumber and candidate of the Party, which achieved 14,980 votesfollowed by Matt Goodwinfrom Reform UK, which obtained a total of 10,578 supports.

Third was Angeliki Stogia, of the Labor Party, with 9,364, practically half of the 18,555 votes in the 2024 general elections.

Electoral participation was 47.5%.

Conservative candidate Charlotte Cadden received just 706 votes, while the Liberal Democrats received 653.

With the victory, Spencer, 34, becomes the fifth member of the Green Party in Parliament.

“I didn’t grow up wanting to be a politician. I’m a plumber,” he said after confirming his victory. “I’m no different from everyone in this constituency. I work hard. That’s what we do,” he added.

Greens leader Zack Polanski said: “If we see a change like this in the next general election, “There will be a wave of new Green MPs.”

Labor, sunk

This seat had been the focus of media attention last month over Burnham’s decision to run.

The mayor of Manchester is a rising figure in Labor ranks and has been seen as a possible contender for the party leadership in the event of Starmer’s departure from power, but You must first be an MP in the House of Commons.

Given the rejection of Burnham’s candidacy by the Labor executive, the party placed Angeliki Stogia as a candidate, something that has not gone well at all.

Starmer admitted this Friday the “very disappointing” defeat of his party.

In a statement to the media after the defeat he stated that voters are “frustrated”, but he insisted that he entered politics to “fight for change for those who need it.

“I will continue fighting for those people as long as I have breath left,” he said, in a clear admission that He has no intention of resigning.

Likewise, he committed to fight against political extremesboth from the left and the right, who threaten, according to him, to “destroy our country”, in reference to the Greens, who have taken a turn to the left with the leader Zack Polanskiy Reform UK.