‘Everything I do has climate at its centre’: Hackney’s first Green mayor gets to work

Zoë Garbett, the Green party mayor of Hackney, in her new office. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

For the first time in decades the person sitting behind the desk in the wood-panelled office of Hackney’s imposing art deco town hall is not a Labour politician.

Zoë Garbett was elected as the east London borough’s first Green party mayor in this month’s local elections, surfing a wave of support which resulted in the party winning more than 500 seats, taking control of five councils and winning two mayoralties.