Zack Polanski announces intention to stand in Starmer by-election
The Green Party leader will seek a seat the party won 10.4% of in 2024, as Labour prepares a fast-tracked contest to replace Sir Keir Starmer.
- On Thursday, Green Party Leader Zack Polanski told the Camden New Journal he intends to run for the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary seat vacated by former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
- Labour has held the inner London constituency continuously since 1983, winning at least 40% of the vote at every election and securing an 11,572-vote majority in 2024.
- Polanski posted on X that he will "stand up for people and our communities," describing the by-election as a "referendum on ending rip-off Britain" while attacking Labour's corporate alignment.
- Nominations for the by-election, expected in October, open shortly with the local Green Party set to complete candidate selection by the end of next week.
- Recent YouGov polling puts the Green Party at 13% nationally, though Polanski's personal popularity faced pressure following his April criticism of police conduct in north London.
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Keir Starmer’s resignation as an MP, delivered mere hours before his successor first appeared at the despatch box as prime minister, sets up the sixth by-election of 2026 and the seventh of this parliament. The coming contest in Holborn and St Pancras follows a series of by-elections of varying significance, including Nigel Farage’s recent brush... Read more »
Green Party leader Zack Polanski to run for Keir Starmer's seat
The leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party has announced his intentions to run for the seat in Parliament vacated by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Zack Polanski, leader of the Greens, has led his hard-left party to wild success in the polls as a more extreme and ideologically unorthodox alternative to the mainstream Labour […]
Zack Polanski to stand in by-election for Starmer’s seat
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he wants to stand in the by-election triggered when the former Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer announced he would be stepping down as MP for the North London seat of Holborn and St Pancras.
UK Green Party leader Polanski announces intention to run for Starmer's MP seat in London
Polanski told the Camden New Journal on Thursday that he will stand in a by-election for the London constituency, which he said “represents so many of the things that make London so special."
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