Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds

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Labour lost significant numbers of white working-class voters to the Greens in Gorton and Denton, the party’s postmortem has concluded, after it came third in the Greater Manchester byelection last month.

The Greens won the byelection, with Reform in second place.