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- Labour Party selected Sagal Abdi-Wali as candidate for Holborn & St Pancras by-election.
- The by-election will be held on October 8 after Sir Keir Starmer resigned as MP.
- Green Party leader Zack Polanski will contest the seat and urged members to cancel conference tickets to campaign.
- Reform UK criticised Abdi-Wali’s background, prompting Labour spokesman Zia Yusuf to call the remarks “straightforward racism.”