Green party leader Zack Polanski seeks to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat
Polanski says he will ‘stand up for people struggling to pay their bills’ if he becomes MP for Holborn and St Pancras UK politics live – latest updates Zack Polanski has announced his intention to fight for the Commons seat vacated by Keir Starmer, setting up a high-stakes byelection pitting the mass campaigning of his Greens against a resurgent Labour under Andy Burnham.
Local Greens in Holborn and St Pancras still have to formally select their candidate under a process that will not be completed until next Friday.
But it seems inevitable they will endorse Polanski, whose leadership of the party has seen it soar in the polls and more than triple in membership.
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