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The hard right has high hopes in Gorton and Denton – but a grassroots fightback is under way
UK News•February 25, 2026 at 10:00 AMNational

The hard right has high hopes in Gorton and Denton – but a grassroots fightback is under way

By Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent•The Guardian - UK News

As ordinary people feel the effects of divisive rhetoric, a local group is taking action to empower the community“I don’t want to talk about him,” Selina Ullah said, when asked what she thought of Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter running for Reform in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection.She would rather talk about the hope she took from the national reaction to the murder of her brother, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah – and the memorial campaign afterwards – in the same Greater Manchester constituency in 1986. Continue reading...

As ordinary people feel the effects of divisive rhetoric, a local group is taking action to empower the community

“I don’t want to talk about him,” Selina Ullah said, when asked what she thought of Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter running for Reform in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection.

She would rather talk about the hope she took from the national reaction to the murder of her brother, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah – and the memorial campaign afterwards – in the same Greater Manchester constituency in 1986.

Continue reading...

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