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Gorton and Denton is a constituency of two halves.
On the east, the Gorton side, there are diverse suburbs of the city of Manchester, which are home to large student and Muslim populations.
Denton meanwhile, located in the borough of Tameside, is a largely working-class post-industrial town and has a much older population, who are almost 91 per cent white. Once a hive of textile production and coal mining, it has – like many towns in the north west – borne the brunt of deindustrialisation.
These two very different areas make up the country’s 15th most deprived seat, where the challenges of living in modern Britain are laid bare. The neighbouring areas share a sense of disappointment, verging on anger.
Voters in the constituency will go to the polls for a crunch by-election on Thursday – one which could bring the curtain down on Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership and have a lasting impact on the makeup of British politics.
This constituency –and its previous iterations – has long been a brick in Labour’s Red Wall.
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