Questions MOUNT over Zack Polanksi's future as Labour BEAT Greens at Holborn St Pancras by-election
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has had his authority damaged after failing to win the by-election triggered after Keir Starmer quit as Labour leader - before being told he's less popular than even Nigel Farage.
Sagal Abdi-Wali is the new Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras in London - holding the seat for the party and hammering Polanski, who could now face further questions over his controversial stewardship of the Greens.
Labour's candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia, won convincingly with 12,292 votes, beating Mr Polanski on 8,928. Voter turnout was 38.76%, with 27,309 ballots cast. This is a significant drop from 2024's general election, when 56,786 voted.
Polanski says he won't quit, but admits his future is out of his hands. He said it up to Green Party members to decide whether he continues as leader. Asked how confident he was to be re-elected, he told Sky News: “That’s going to be up to the members and that’s going to be up to the leadership election that happens next summer.
“What I’m experiencing, though, is an immense amount of people who are saying actually they’ve never been prouder to be a Green Party member.”
Embattled Polanski was then given a kicking by Nick Robinson, who told him he is less liked than Reform's leader Farage in a heated Radio 4 Today interview.
Swerving the barb, Mr Polanski responded after a pause: “Well, my reflection is if things are going wrong by the fact that we just tripled our vote share and had our second best by-election result in Green Party history, you know what? I’ll take that."
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God help the English and people of goodwill.
Green vote almost doubles !!
Lib Dem’s destroyed !!
Labour won, but look at the figures and I am not a Green fan.
Questions MOUNT over Zack Polanksi's future as Labour BEAT Greens at Holborn St Pancras by-election
The Mirror
4,401 views
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has had his authority damaged after failing to win the by-election triggered after Keir Starmer quit as Labour leader - before being told he's less popular than even Nigel Farage.
Sagal Abdi-Wali is the new Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras in London - holding the seat for the party and hammering Polanski, who could now face further questions over his controversial stewardship of the Greens.
Labour's candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia, won convincingly with 12,292 votes, beating Mr Polanski on 8,928. Voter turnout was 38.76%, with 27,309 ballots cast. This is a significant drop from 2024's general election, when 56,786 voted.
Polanski says he won't quit, but admits his future is out of his hands. He said it up to Green Party members to decide whether he continues as leader. Asked how confident he was to be re-elected, he told Sky News: “That’s going to be up to the members and that’s going to be up to the leadership election that happens next summer.
“What I’m experiencing, though, is an immense amount of people who are saying actually they’ve never been prouder to be a Green Party member.”
Embattled Polanski was then given a kicking by Nick Robinson, who told him he is less liked than Reform's leader Farage in a heated Radio 4 Today interview.
Swerving the barb, Mr Polanski responded after a pause: “Well, my reflection is if things are going wrong by the fact that we just tripled our vote share and had our second best by-election result in Green Party history, you know what? I’ll take that."
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