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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Horton

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

Zack Polanski in front of a green sign for the London Green Party
Zack Polanski said the Greens were underdogs in the race but he was confident they could beat Labour. Photograph: Aldo Ciarrocchi/Alamy

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 personal 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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