Labour wins Holborn by-election as Green leader Polanski vows to stay on

Labour wins Holborn by-election as Green leader Polanski vows to stay on

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election by over 3,000 votes, defeating Green Party leader Zack Polanski who stood to replace former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. Polanski insists he will continue leading the Greens despite the loss and a separate row over a controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion passed at the party's conference.

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