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Bolton-born Hannah Spencer takes seat in Parliament after historic Green Party win
Hannah Spencer’s win gives the Green Party its highest-ever Commons representation with five MPs, securing a 4,402-vote majority in Gorton and Denton.
- On March 2, Hannah Spencer was sworn in at the House of Commons after Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle called her forward, and she took the religious oath holding a bible.
- Former health minister Andrew Gwynne's January decision to stand down triggered the Gorton and Denton by-election, which Hannah Spencer topped last week.
- A trades background shaped Spencer's path into politics, training as a plumber around 2008, qualifying as a plasterer last month, and setting up Hannah’s Household Plumbing.
- The Green Party now holds its highest-ever number of Commons seats, with Spencer becoming the fifth Green MP and Labour finishing third with 9,364 votes.
- Reform UK claimed its candidate would have won last week’s by-election if only British citizens had voted and urged police to investigate alleged 'family voting', while the Electoral Commission's 2024 data shows no evidence of large-scale fraud.
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Hannah Spencer MP says Farage is copying ‘his hero Trump’ by disputing by-election result
The new Green MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, has criticised Nigel Farage for adopting Donald Trump-style tactics by claiming that the Greens won the by-election due to cheating and ‘family voting’. Farage said without evidence that he was “absolutely convinced” that Reform’s candidate, the GB News presenter Matt Goodwin, came first among British-born voters. He also made a jibe at Green voters, saying: “I’m not sure anyone who votes …
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