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  "path": "/politics/matt-goodwin-reform-uk-rejects-sectarian-politics-gorton-and-denton-by-election",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nMatt Goodwin has declared that Reform UK \"rejects sectarian politics\" after his by-election defeat to the Greens.\n\nThe poll, which was overshadowed by a row over illegal family voting on Thursday night, saw Mr Goodwin take home 10,578 votes in Gorton and Denton.\n\nAfter the result, the academic was asked by GB News what went wrong.\n\n\"Sectarianism. That's what happened,\" he said. \"We more than doubled our vote. We're in Labour's backyard. We're a second political force in this seat. We have planted a flag in northern England.\"\n\n\"The reason the Greens have won here, let's be honest, is exactly what that report was warning about a few hours ago,\" he added.\n\n\"Family voting, otherwise known as sectarianism. Now we can have a conversation in this country about sectarianism and what it's doing to our democracy, or we can pretend it's not happening.\n\n\"It's clearly happening.\"\n\n**_WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE_**",
  "title": "Matt Goodwin declares: 'Reform UK REJECTS sectarian politics' as he breaks silence on by-election defeat"
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