Labour defeats Green leader Polanski in Holborn by-election

Labour defeats Green leader Polanski in Holborn by-election

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, defeating Green Party leader Zack Polanski by more than 3,000 votes to retain the seat vacated by former PM Sir Keir Starmer. Polanski's campaign was overshadowed by criticism over his absence from the Green Party conference vote on a controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion, which he skipped to focus on campaigning.

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