Cabinet minister claims Zack Polanksi’s party is ‘whipping up hatred’ in run-up to Gorton and Denton by-election Daily Telegraph 25/02/26 Labour has accused the Green Party of “manipulating” Muslim voters and stirring up hatred on the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election. Senior Labour figures rebuked Zack Polanski’s party over campaign materials written in Urdu that tell Muslims to “punish Labour for Gaza”. The ballot in Gorton and Denton is set to take place on Thursday, and new polling suggests there could be a single percentage point between Labour, the Greens and Reform UK. Just under 40 per cent of Gorton’s population is Muslim, making it fertile ground for the Greens, while the white working class is dominant in Denton, meaning the area has more potential for Reform. Green Party campaign leaflets in both English and Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, feature a picture of Hannah Spencer, the party’s candidate, wearing a keffiyeh – a scarf associated with Palestin...
Reform UK will create an "Ice-style" agency as the party's shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf is set to announce plans to deport nearly 300,000 people a year. Mr Yusuf is set to announce plans to create a new agency, the UK Deportation Command, with the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day. Experts have previously said the costs of such an expansion would be massive, as of April 2024 there were approximately 2,500 detention spaces. Mr Yusuf will tell a press conference later today: "For decades, the Tories and Labour have turned the other way while the very fabric of our society has been under assault. "The social contract has not merely been broken; it’s been shattered. Under a Reform government, His Majesty’s parliament will be sovereign once again. "We will secure our borders, leave the ECHR, and deport those here illegally. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our b...