Matt HodgkinsonJan 27

"What Gorton and Denton really needed was a local man, said Lee. ... Sadly, though, Reform didn’t have any local people who were suitable. So this part of Greater Manchester was going to have to do with someone who had lived there a while ago. Someone who had left his job at the University of Kent and retreated to London to be a media gobshite for GB News. Step forward, Matt Goodwin."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/27/reforms-matt-goodwin-is-sure-hes-the-right-man-for-gorton-and-denton-he-just-doesnt-know-why

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Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why…

Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately

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Matt HodgkinsonNov 19

"The first inkling that the new Labour government might also be accident-prone came early on with the freebies row."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/john-crace-on-how-labour-shattered-his-expectations

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‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations

After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...

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