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One Seat, Two Futures: The Holborn and St Pancras By-Election
Published 1 week, 6 days ago
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This episode covers the by-election on 8 October 2026, triggered by Keir Starmer resigning as MP. It reports Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali winning with 12,292 votes to Green leader Zack Polanski's 8,928, a majority of 3,364, on a turnout of 38.8 percent. It also looks at the Green Party conference motion on Zionism and questions about Polanski's leadership, and what the result shows about Labour, the Greens, and fragmented multi-party politics in urban seats.