Starmer blasts ‘extreme’ and ‘sectarian’ Green Party after brutal election defeat

Published February 27, 2026 2:22pm ET



British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now fighting a two-front war against the left-wing as much as the right-wing, if the results of an electoral by-election Thursday are anything to go by.

Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer secured an upset victory in the constituency of Gorton and Denton, a Labour stronghold. Worse than that, Labour didn’t even come in second place, as the party fell to third behind Nigel Farage‘s right-wing Reform U.K.

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