Labour Risks Losing All Across London as City Flirts With Greens
Green Party leader Zack Polanski visits a housing estate in Lewisham, South London, while campaigning for the local elections.
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In the central London neighborhood of Hackney, Mayor Caroline Woodley is finding the Labour Party that’s dominated local government here for over 50 years to be an unusually hard sell.
“Stick with us,” she urges, standing in front of a red-brick apartment block that’s won architectural prizes and was commissioned by the local council to offer at subsidized rents. But dissatisfaction with Keir Starmer’s government in Westminster means that, all over London, voters are turning elsewhere.