The Greens’ leader Zack Polanski is facing being blocked from running as his party’s candidate in the Holborn by-election.
Mr Polanski hopes to stand in next month’s vote to replace Sir Keir Starmer in the North London seat after the former prime minister announced last week he is quitting parliament.
But Hamza Chowdhury, who represents Holborn and Covent Garden on Camden Council, announced he was also running today and claimed the backing of six more of the Greens’ 10 councillors, including group leader Lorna Jane Russell.
In an Instagram post he attacked politicians ‘you’ll only see on a leaflet’, adding: ‘We don’t need another MP who
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