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People ‘incensed’ about North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski
UK NewsPoliticsSeptember 11, 2026 at 1:45 PMNational

People ‘incensed’ about North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski

By Helena HortonThe Guardian - UK News

Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstepUK politics live – latest updatesZack Polanski has said a vote for him in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras byelection is a vote against the government’s reported plans to greenlight a North Sea gasfield.The leader of the Green party in England and Wales, who was selected on Friday to contest the London seat, also said he was considering building a stockpile for the extreme weather predicted with the arrival of the biggest El Niño in 1,000 years, a meteorological phenomenon that supercharges floods and droughts. Continue reading...

Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep

Zack Polanski has said a vote for him in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras byelection is a vote against the government’s reported plans to greenlight a North Sea gasfield.

The leader of the Green party in England and Wales, who was selected on Friday to contest the London seat, also said he was considering building a stockpile for the extreme weather predicted with the arrival of the biggest El Niño in 1,000 years, a meteorological phenomenon that supercharges floods and droughts.

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