🟢Dispatch from the doorsteps in Holborn & St Pancras with @ZackPolanski and @TheGreenParty
Zack Polanski is wasting no time. Hours after announcing his plans to stand in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, the Green Party leader was out of the traps meeting party activists at Camden Town station before a gloomy evening door knocking.
“I think the biggest thing about this campaign is it’s a win-win for people,” Polanski told The Times between stops at flats on a north London housing estate. “People have said a couple of times, ‘I’m thinking about giving Burnham a chance.’
“But my point is that this election is not about who the government is — there will still be a Labour government. You can still give Burnham a chance and elect a Green MP who will hold him to account.”
On paper this seat should be Polanski’s for the taking - his party had historic success here in May’s local elections, returning a record 11 councillors, making the Green and Progressive Alliance the official opposition to Labour.
But on the ground in Camden it appeared he may face an uphill struggle - there was a surprising amount of residual loyalty to Starmer and although many blamed Andy Burnham for unseating the former prime minister they weren’t too keen on Polanski either
Can Zack Polanski win the Holborn by-election? Full read with @inspirellie_ for @thetimes 📰
https://t.co/K6kRrgkI19
@electionmapsuk Has anyone noticed that since the 2024GE, the Liberal Democrats have just been stagnant with barely any changes to their polling and seat projections?
Understandably, they want to try to maintain their political stability, but more is required for them to be taken seriously.
A few weeks ago I made an appeal on air on @bbc5live: Are you a hot farmer?
Ed Rhodes called in, and he was so hot he was growing melons in Devon. So I popped down to @martinsfieldfarm to see them.
NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski has written to Louise Haigh to ask if she stands by her past comments calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide.
On 4 June last year, Haigh said in parliament it was ‘impossible to conclude that this is anything less than a genocide’.
She asked the FCDO minister Hamish Falconer if he will ‘reflect the will of this House to the Foreign Secretary and the Cabinet that sanctions be imposed immediately on Netanyahu and his genocidal regime’.
Polanski’s letter says new PM Burnham ‘does not seem so clear-sighted’ as earlier this month while apologising for Labour’s initial response to the conflict he stopped short of calling it a genocide, saying that it ‘must be for the international courts to determine, rather than politicians.’
The letter is part of Green attempts to challenge the narrative that Burnham will be any more progressive than Starmer.
Labour’s stance on Gaza has been a key reason why many progressive voters have left the part for the Greens:
https://t.co/TOrwIXw75N
"Extraordinarily 'retro-Labour'"
Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg tells @mattchorley that "at the moment" Andy Burnham's premiership "comes across" as returning to "the erogenous zone of the Labour Party activist"
#Newsnight
Reform high command today - including Tice, Jenrick & Cunningham - were
clearly ordered today to go out and aggressively dominate every broadcast and constantly interrupt everyone else.
@SalahIranee Barakallah feek, just pay attention to the account who posted this scan from the book since he is from the new Nawasib/Khawarij who have emerged whom curse ʿAlī (رضي الله عنه) and hate the Ahlul-Bayt religiously.
@Hassan_alQadri Is Hassan al Qadri okay what compionans like Salman Farsi who the prophet AS said he is from the Ahlebait Ammar RA and the compionans of al badar. Jaffar bin abi Talib who lost both his arms
Jaʿfar Āl Kāshif al-Ghiṭāʾ said:
“It appears that attending their mosques (i.e. The Sunnis), praying with them while outwardly showing love to their imams, participating in their funerals, visiting their sick, leading their prayers, greeting them, showing affection to them (…)
"Beth from Sky Sports." - Sir Keir Starmer
"Sky Sports... I wish it was." - @BethRigby
Sir Keir Starmer and Sky's Beth Rigby share a light-hearted moment after the PM misspoke
https://t.co/muop8P7PNz
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Jonathan Bartley: "Green voters.. want nationalisation.. they want whats happened in Gaza to be called out as genocide.. they want fresh economic thinking.. is there going to actually be any change with Burnham?" #politicslondon
Keir Starmer’s fight for survival…
“He might be increasingly defiant, but it is like a dog barking in an empty room,” one insider said. “Eventually its owner is going to come back home and kick it out.”
My read with @jessicaelgot & @kiranstacey
https://t.co/NUZJQRytip
🚨 Omar Berrada says Manchester United have a clear plan for the summer transfer window:
🗣️ Berrada: I think the template for what we did last summer will be replicated in many way. You always go into a window, you don’t know how you’re going to come out of it, but you have to be really prepared.
You have to have a clear plan. You have to know exactly what positions you’re looking to strengthen, and you also have to be prepared for any eventuality. There could be exits that we are not expecting. There can be opportunities in the market that perhaps weren’t there at the beginning, so we have to be ready.
We have to be agile and flexible, but we have a clear plan. Jason Wilcox and his team are very well set up to execute that plan, and I do think that what we saw last season is a good way forward for us, to mix experience and youth.
We want players that have demonstrated they can perform in the Premier League, and perhaps also with players that are doing very well outside the Premier League, but we will always do it within our terms and ensuring that whatever decision we take is not just for the short term.
(Source: Inside Carrington Podcast)