GB News presenter Matt Goodwin – who once ate a page of his own book on live TV after making an incorrect election prediction – has been unveiled as Reform’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election.
Mr Goodwin was announced as the party’s candidate one day after Nigel Farage claimed Reform UK’s chances are “considerably better” after Labour blocked Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham from standing for the north-west seat.
Speaking at a party press conference in the constituency on Tuesday, Mr Goodwin, said: “This by-election is a referendum on Keir Starmer.”
The former university academic and honorary president of the Students4Reform organisation added: “It’s a chance for the hardworking law abiding tax paying people from this seat to have their say on Keir Starmer and to make political history.”
The right-wing activist sparked criticism last year when he was accused of suggesting people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British, even if they were born in the UK.
Following a mass stabbing on a train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Mr Goodwin, who appears as a presenter on GB News three times a week, blamed “mass uncontrolled immigration” in a post on X.
After it came to light the the suspect was born in the UK, Goodwin wrote: “So were all of the 7/7 bombers. It takes more than a piece of paper to make somebody ‘British’.”
Reform selecting the man that radicalised himself into white nationalism after he didn’t get enough good boy points from his fellow academics is certainly a look.
They’re even letting members from the previous government who according to them, made this mess LOL
I mean Labour really did throw this by-election by not letting potentially the most popular Labour politician in all of England run. Pretty sure people are gonna eat up the “this is a vote against starmer” campaign being pushed by reform.
