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Green party leader Zack Polanski has said antisemitism will not be tolerated under his leadership, defended his absence from a conference vote on Zionism and set out plans to widen internal party democracy.
Ellie Chowns, the Greens' leader in the House of Commons, says a conference motion declaring 'Zionism is racism', passed by about 0.4% of members, shows the party's policy-making processes are not working.
Labour's deputy leader says the party is winning back leftwing voters disillusioned under Keir Starmer, after Sagal Abdi-Wali held Holborn and St Pancras against the Greens.
Andy Burnham's Labour has held Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, while the Greens more than tripled their vote share to 33% yet failed to win, according to a Guardian editorial.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
Labour has retained Holborn and St Pancras with a majority of 3,364, a result John Curtice said leaves the party better placed than six months ago but less popular than in 2025, while John Harris writes that the Greens have forfeited ground won under Zack Polanski's leadership.
