The Greens have revealed their candidate for the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by election
34 year old Hannah Spencer won with 457 votes, compared with 65 for Fesl Raza-Khan and 63 for Sarah Wakefield in a ballot yesterday evening
She has lived in Greater Manchester all her life and is the leader of the Green Party on Trafford council, having first been elected as a Councillor in May 2023
She works as a plumber and has done so since leaving school at 16, and is currently training to become a plasterer
She said she joined the Greens “just after Covid” because she was “so fed up of politicians deciding things that suit their interests at our expense… I saw that so few politicians are from backgrounds like mine and I realised the only way we can change things is having a wider range of voices in Parliament”
