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UK Green Party's Polanski faces internal rival in by-election

Green Party leader Zack Polanski is contesting the October 8, 2026 by-election in Holborn and St Pancras (vacated by PM Keir Starmer) but faces unexpected internal opposition from fellow Green councillor Hamza Chowdhury, who claims support from most Camden Green councillors. Polanski pledged to remain party leader even if he loses the seat.

UK Green Party leader Polanski to contest Starmer's vacated parliament seat

Following former Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation from Parliament on September 1, 2026, Green Party leader Zack Polanski announced his candidacy for the Holborn and St Pancras seat on September 3. Starmer's departure triggered a by-election in the London constituency after his 11 years representing it.

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Former child refugee selected as Labour candidate in byelection for Starmer’s old seat

Sagal Abdi-Wali, who came from Somalia in 1990s, will likely face Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras contest A former child refugee who became the leader of Camden council has been selected to be the Labour candidate for the byelection in Holborn and St Pancras. Sagal Abdi-Wali, who came to the UK from Somalia as a child in the 1990s and was elected leader of Camden council in May, was chosen to represent Labour members in the north London seat vacated by Keir Starmer.

‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

Author Russell Warfield argues the Green leader’s brand of politics is not new but has evolved in the party over time Watermelons: the term used to describe the members of the Green party of England and Wales who are green on the outside and red on the inside. People in this faction are environmentalists, but when you cut them open, they bleed socialist ideologies.