"There's only one party to stop Reform and that's the Labour party. We can already see what the bybelection is going to be about, which is Labour values which are about delivering on the cost of living with a strong record in that constituency of what we've already done versus Reform. He added: You can see from their candidate what politics they're going to bring to that constituency: the politics of division, of toxic division, of tearing people apart."
"The prime minister suggested that Matthew Goodwin, a hard-right activist, would try to tear people apart in Gorton and Denton, and that voters wanting to stop Nigel Farage's party should coalesce around the Labour candidate. Senior Labour figures have warned that the party needs to rapidly present itself as the stop Reform vote, acknowledging that in the recent Caerphilly byelection, which was won by Plaid Cymru, they were too late in becoming the beneficiary of tactical voting."
Keir Starmer accused the Reform UK candidate in the Greater Manchester byelection, Matthew Goodwin, of pursuing a politics of toxic division after Goodwin claimed that UK‑born people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British. Starmer said Labour is the only party that can stop Reform in Gorton and Denton and urged voters to coalesce around Labour. Senior Labour figures said the party must quickly present itself as the anti‑Reform option, citing delayed tactical voting uptake in the Caerphilly byelection. The Greens plan to mount a strong challenge after Andy Burnham was barred from applying to be Labour candidate.
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