A Green by-election victory in Greater Manchester may once have seemed unthinkable. Now it looks like a warning shot. In this essay, William Atkinson, Assistant Content Editor at The Spectator, argues that the result signals something far deeper than a protest vote: the fragmentation of Britain’s traditional party system and the rise of sectarian, identity-driven politics. With Labour rattled, the Conservatives in retreat and insurgent forces circling, Gorton and Denton could prove a harbinger of a far more volatile political era.

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