{"id":82023,"date":"2026-02-22T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/matt-goodwin-is-running-the-search-for-reforms-elusive-byelection-candidate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:00:35","slug":"matt-goodwin-is-running-the-search-for-reforms-elusive-byelection-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/matt-goodwin-is-running-the-search-for-reforms-elusive-byelection-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform\u2019s elusive byelection candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2302e45e14ec28d41412e2d155576715275aa536\/375_0_3750_3000\/master\/3750.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=b2bb34f4fd97103ce9e4e0cd3f848192\" alt=\"Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform\u2019s elusive byelection candidate\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform\u2019s elusive byelection candidate<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Nigel Farage\u2019s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?On a bracingly cold February night in Levenshulme, a black Volkswagen people-carrier draws up outside a little parish church, around which a small crowd has begun to gather. From behind the car\u2019s darkened windows steps the Reform candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection, dressed in the trademark gilet that makes him look less like a politician and more like a man who has come straight from a grouse shoot. As he enters the church where the electoral hustings will take place, a leaflet is thrust into his hand, which as he will later discover with a horrified grimace, is a flyer for the local branch of the Communist League, bearing policies such as \u201camnesty for all immigrants\u201d and \u201cdefend Cuba\u2019s socialist revolution\u201d.But then, when<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/22\/reform-uk-matt-goodwin-gorton-and-denton-nigel-farage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform\u2019s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage\u2019s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?On a bracingly cold February night in Levenshulme, a black Volkswagen people-carrier draws up outside a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}