Labour pick Angeliki Stogia for Gorton by-election

Angeliki Stogia has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election.

The Manchester councillor was chosen to represent the party after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham was denied permission to enter the contest a week ago.

The by-election on 26 February in the Greater Manchester constituency was prompted by the resignation of former MP Andrew Gwynne on health grounds.

At the general election in 2024, Labour won the seat with a majority of 13,000.

Ms Stogia, who is a Labour councillor for the Whalley Range ward, said she was "so looking forward to going out on the doorstep and winning".

As her candidacy was announced, she told a crowd of party activists: "I am absolutely thrilled and excited, and I want to thank everyone who came to the hustings.

"I am a proud Mancunian woman. I have walked the streets of this constituency."

Flanked by Labour party chairwoman Anna Turley and deputy leader Lucy Powell, Stogia said: "This is about Manchester. Manchester is a city united, we are rejecting division.

"I am so looking forward to going out on the doorstep and winning this for Labour."