❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Green Party released a video of their candidate, Hannah Spencer, speaking in Urdu to appeal to voters in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election (special election) in England.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Hannah Spencer, the Green Party candidate, and local activists.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The video was released ahead of the parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton, England, taking place on February 26, 2026.

💬KEY QUOTE: “The Reforms want to break up our communities. They want to deport families who have lived here for years, and they want to tax people born abroad even more. They give air to Islamophobia, and they put our safety and dignity at risk. But there is another way,” the ad declared, referring to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and its candidate, Matt Goodwin.

🎯IMPACT: The Greens, a formerly marginal far-left party focused on environmentalism, are increasingly displacing the governing Labour Party on the British left as they court ethnic minorities and pro-Palestinian activists.

Britain’s Green Party has released a video featuring its candidate, Hannah Spencer, speaking in Urdu—the predominant lingua franca in Pakistan and among Indian Muslims—to court the Muslim vote in the upcoming Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election (special election) in Manchester, England. The video prominently features footage from Gaza and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in America, showcasing the Greens’ increasing focus on pro-Palestinian, anti-borders rhetoric over environmentalism.

“A cruel politician can win if we don’t vote Green to stop the Reforms,” the video states, referring to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and its candidate Matt Goodwin. “The Reforms want to break up our communities. They want to deport families who have lived here for years, and they want to tax people born abroad even more. They give air to Islamophobia, and they put our safety and dignity at risk. But there is another way,” it continues.

The video directly targets Farage and Goodwin alongside President Donald J. Trump and WarRoom host and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon.

The Green Party has a long history in Britain but has been marginal for decades. Historically, it opposed mass migration on the grounds that an expanding population was harmful to the environment. In recent years, however, its focus on climate change and environmental issues has been increasingly taking a backseat to economic socialism and pro-Palestinian, anti-border enforcement politics, allowing it to significantly grow its support among the country’s growing ethnic minority population and left-wing university students.

Polls suggest the Greens are increasingly displacing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on the British left, as Reform has displaced the formerly governing Conservatives (Tories). The party’s pitch to Muslim voters has been a major part of this, with previous by-election campaign ads urging Muslims to “punish Labour for Gaza,” with Starmer framed as not sufficiently supportive of the Palestinians.

The Gorton and Denton by-election is scheduled for February 26, 2026, with Reform and the Greens regularly at or near the top of the polls, signalling a major shift in British politics towards a battle between Farage’s populist, anti-mass migration party and the formerly fringe extreme left.

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