With just one day left until voters in Gorton and Denton march down to the ballet boxes, the latest polls show a nail-bitingly close three-way fight between Labour, Reform UK and the Green party.
The latest poll shows Green narrowly takes the lead with 30 per cent of voters, with Reform UK and Labour neck and neck with 28 per cent.
Labour won the seat in 2024 with a majority of more than half the vote but now faces a double threat. The prime minister called the by-election a “battle of values” when he visited the constituency this week.
Meanwhile, Peter Mandelson was arrested after what his lawyers insist was a “baseless” suggestion that he was planning to flee to the British Virgin Islands.
The former Labour minister was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Monday and later released on bail, following claims he had leaked sensitive government information to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The former peer’s law firm said there had been an agreement with police that he would be interviewed on a voluntary basis next month, but that had been hastily overturned.
