
GB News presenter Matt Goodwin has been named as the Reform candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election.
A former academic Goodwin was a Professor at Kent University until he took severance in 2024.
He wrote a study of UKIP with Rob Ford in 2015 but since then has switched from studying the far right to promoting it.
On the face of it his favourite themes, the Great Replacement Theory, London has fallen and mass immigration is to blame for everything place him very much in the far right political sphere.
Interestingly in December 2025 he was a guest in the first edition of Liz Truss’s weekly video broadcast, suggesting that he is prepared to go where Farage publicly is not


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