Rob Ford, Joshi Herrmann, Allan Hopwood & Shahbaz Sarwar

Can Reform win in Manchester?


February 5, 2026
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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers explores the upcoming high-stakes by-election of Gorton and Denton with a deep dive into the constituency and its localized microcosm of global populist trends. He is joined by Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester, Rob Ford, founder and editor of the Manchester Mill, Joshi Herrmann, and councilors Allan Hopwood (Reform) and Shahbaz Sarwar (Workers Party) to analyze whether the Labour stronghold will crumble under pressure from a surging Green Party or a high-profile Reform UK campaign led by Matt Goodwin within a new landscape of sectarian identity politics and deepening public frustration with the UK’s traditional two-party system.


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