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Emboldened by major successes in the US and UK, the conservative Christian organisation Turning Point has its sights set on Australia’s political ecosystem

Selection of relatively unknown candidate comes days after Burnham was denied permission to stand

In the second part of our series on digital politics, we look at how online provocateurs have advanced extreme political ideas – and watched them seep into the mainstream, says digital media academic Robert Topinka

Labour Party chair Anna Turley wrote to Matt Goodwin urging him to make clear whether he will welcome the activist’s backing.

Anti-immigration activist is contesting poll in borough where he previously researched far-right extremism

Far-right activist tells X followers to vote for Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, Matthew Goodwin

‘We would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency don’t exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,’ says one Labour MP

A byelection has been set for February 26 in the Manchester constituency of Gorton and Denton. This will be a big test for Keir Starmer’s Labour party and a temperature check on the state of multi-party politics in the North. Although Labour won the seat comfortably in 2024, some early…

Councillor Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, was announced as the Green candidate.

Voters will go to the polls next month in Gorton and Denton.

Pre-2008, voters with prosperous and improving lives didn’t mind being excluded from the conversation. Those days are over, writes Guardian columnist Andy Beckett