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UK PM Burnham's Labour fends off left-wing Greens in local election

Global Published 9 October 2026, 07:53 · archived 9 Oct 2026

LONDON: Andy Burnham’s Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated ​by former leader Keir Starmer on Friday, fending off a ‌strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party in a boost for the British prime minister. Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of the local ​council, won the by-election in the central London constituency ​of Holborn and St Pancras with 12,292 votes, ⁠compared with 8,928 for Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader. Labour ​had been widely expected to hold the seat, as Burnham seeks to repair ​his party’s damaged appeal among core voters in big c...

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