{"id":90405,"date":"2026-02-27T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90405"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:49:13","slug":"90405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/27\/90405\/","title":{"rendered":"There is hope, after all, thanks to the people of Gorton and Denton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t even close in the end. This was the by-election result in Groton and Denton in Manchester last night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-90406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750-550x334.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750-550x334.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750-494x300.jpeg 494w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750-768x466.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750-600x364.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1750.jpeg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I woke up fearing the worst. Instead the margin of victory was emphatic.<\/p>\n<p>People voted for the politics of care.<\/p>\n<p>They voted against Labour\u2019s politics of destruction and Reform\u2019s politics of hate.<\/p>\n<p>I always say that I live in hope. This morning, I have a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the options available in this election, the Greens were undoubtedly the best. It is massively encouraging that so many people recognised that fact.<\/p>\n<p>I will have more to say on this, shortly. But there are also moments that must just be enjoyed. This is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t even close in the end. This was the by-election result in Groton and Denton in Manchester last night: I woke up fearing the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/27\/90405\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,230,118,106,235,223,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-greens","category-labour","category-politics","category-politics-for-people","category-politics-of-care","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90408,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405\/revisions\/90408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}