Polls open in Holborn and St Pancras byelection – UK politics live
Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesHe might have his work cut out for him. Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali is projected to retain the seat in today’s byelection, but the party shouldn’t take victory for granted. As the Guardian’s senior political correspondent, Peter Walker, reports, Polanski has mounted an intensive campaign, but the scale of the challenge is clear from the numbers.
- ▪Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesHe might have his work cut out for him.
- ▪Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali is projected to retain the seat in today’s byelection, but the party shouldn’t take victory for granted.
- ▪As the Guardian’s senior political correspondent, Peter Walker, reports, Polanski has mounted an intensive campaign, but the scale of the challenge is clear from the numbers.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Voting opens in high stakes Holborn and St Pancras byelection — The Guardian — World
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04.35 EDTVoters go to the polls in Holborn and St Pancras byelectionGood morning and welcome to our UK politics live blog.Polls have opened in Keir Starmer’s old seat in Holborn and St Pancras, where the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, is hoping to break Labour’s longstanding grip in the north London constituency.A dog is led towards a polling station as voting begins in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesHe might have his work cut out for him. Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali is projected to retain the seat in today’s byelection, but the party shouldn’t take victory for granted. As the Guardian’s senior political correspondent, Peter Walker, reports, Polanski has mounted an intensive campaign, but the scale of the challenge is clear from the numbers.
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