#NewProfilePic Holborn and St Pancras Thursday 8 October #PollingDay 🗳

18/ Sagal Abdi -Wali and Labour to Win Sagal has been repeatedly endorsed by Labour to Win for internal Labour Party elections. Who are Labour to Win? Labour to Win was founded as a joint project by the right-wing Labour pressure groups Progress and Labour First. Labour to Win was run by Luke Akehurst, one of the most uncompromising foot-soldiers of the Starmerite took over of the Labour Party. Luke Akehurst ran Labour to Win at the same time that he was working as a full-time lobbyist for Israel at BICOM. He had previously ran project via BICOM called ‘We Believe in Israel.’ You can see a lovely picture of Luke Akehurst below, speaking an event titled ‘Putting Israel First.’

17/ Sagal Abdi-Wali is a dyed-in-the-wool Starmerite Sagal Abdi-Wali has long been linked to authoritarian, anti-democratic Starmerite wing of the Labour Party. She has repeatedly sung Starmer’s praises. In 2026, she told the CNJ that Starmer deserved more time as Prime Minister – after Labour had lost over 1,500 seats in the local elections. The story of Sagal’s rise to the position as Councillor is ugly and sordid. In 2021, the local Labour Party started selecting who could and couldn’t stand as Labour councillor the following year. The Labour Party blocked seven popular left-wing councillors from standing. The decision was based on ‘Whips Report’ which was provided to the panel interviewing potential candidates, written by Lazzaro Pietragnoli. The problem? At the very same time the Party was using the Whips Report to block popular left-wing councillors, it was revealed that Pietragnoli had been running a Twitter account called @phillmum, where he pretended to be a mother of three living in Council Housing. He used the Twitter account to praise himself and to criticise left-wing councillors, including calling a local female councillor a scumbag. She was blocked from standing based on his report. Sagal was gifted the candidacy in the safe seat of Camden Square. She was only given the seat after the Party blocked Ranjit Singh, who had been elected in 2018. Singh, it emerged, was also blocked based on one of Pietragnoli’s whip’s reports – which was factually inaccurate. Sagal is only a councillor because of anti-democratic Starmerite stitch-ups. And she has been a loyal lieutenant of Starmerism since.

11/ Sagal Abdi-Wali’s appalling record dealing with local residents’ safety and housing complaints Sagal Abdi-Wali has a very problematic record in how she has responded to residents with serious housing and safety concerns. In 2019, Dan Bruce bought a new-build house on Agar Grove in the constituency. Within a year, the house started falling apart. He had spent £850,000 to buy what he thought was going to be a safe, secure, warm and long-lasting home. Bruce has fought tooth-and-nail to get justice for his case. His story has been covered by the BBC, New Statesman and other outlets. Labour and Sagal have treated him terribly. Dan Bruce has written extensively of how Sir Keir Starmer promised repeatedly to help Bruce once he was elected Prime Minister – but then unceremoniously dumped him. And Sagal? Dan Bruce wrote to Sagal in 2025, alongside a range of other councillors. She was both his ward councillor and head of Camden Housing. Other councillors responded with offers to help. Sagal Abdi-Wali didn’t even respond. Dan Bruce is now so angry that he has produced his own leaflets, which he personally hands out in the campaign.

8/ Sagal Abdi-Wali and Camden’s Record on Rough Sleeping Sagal Abdi-Wali launched her campaign to be an MP following in Andy Burnham’s footsteps – by promising to end rough sleeping in Camden. But her record on this as housing chief and leader of the Council is highly dubious. Three weeks ago, it was revealed that the number of rough sleepers in Camden had INCREASED by 23% between April 2025 and September 2026 – even though the rate of rough sleepers had DROPPED 10% across the rest of London.

6/ Sagal Abdi-Wali and Camden Council’s atrocious record on Housing Sagal Abdi-Wali was elected a councillor in 2022 (in crazy circumstances that I set out below). In May 2024, she became the Cabinet Member for Housing, and in 2026 she became the Council leader. During this period, Camden’s record on housing has been atrocious. In 2024, the Housing Ombudsman delivered a stinging report about Camden’s handling of complaints related to housing repairs. The Ombudsman made an astonishing 124 findings of maladministration against the Council

4/ Sagal Abdi Wali, Camden Labour and the Council’s complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza Despite the Camden Labour Group’s best efforts to scupper Lorna’s motion, the Council was forced to debate divestment when Camden Friends of Palestine delivered a petition of 4,000 signatures to the Council. Sagal Abdi-Wali did not speak during the ensuing debate. Again, she was silent. Her Labour Party colleagues did, however, explaining that divestment from companies involved in the murder of 20,000 children might undermine Rachel Reeves’ ‘growth agenda.’ The motion was kicked into the long grass, referred to a Committee, which then spent close to a year getting an external company to audit Camden’s holdings – as if you need an outside company to identify shareholdings in Palantir. But new disclosures from Camden Council show that, during this period, Camden’s investment in companies complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine skyrocketed. As I revealed in DeClassified a few weeks ago, the value of Camden’s Council’s investment in Palantir increased by 1200% between October 2023 and December 2025.

1/ Sagal Abdi-Wali’s record on the genocide in Gaza Sagal Abdi-Wali’s record on the genocide in Gaza is one of silence and compliance. Her silence speaks volumes. Between October 2023 and her selection as a candidate, Sagal does not appear to have said a single thing in public about the genocide in Gaza. She has not responded to repeated requests asking for evidence that she said anything about the genocide between October 2023 and September 2026. She has remained silent even though other Labour Councillors in Camden spoke out and condemned Israeli war crimes in Gaza. In November 2024, Awale Olad called out Israel’s conduct in Gaza in the Council Chamber. The following year, he announced he would no longer stand as a Labour councillor – after fifteen years of service. He published a stinging letter that he wrote to the Labour Party explaining why, saying: “In the face of the tragic events unfolding in Gaza, I alone stood up and spoke out against the horrifying situation. What we are witnessing is nothing short of devastating: an unrelenting onslaught by Israel against a small and beleaguered enclave.”

Yesterday, I found out the Labour Party was smearing me to The Times. They insinuated that I was sexist and unfairly ascribing views to Sagal Abdi-Wali, Labour’s candidate for Holborn & St Pancras, because I have published factually accurate, hard-hitting investigations into her political record and associations. This is the second time the Labour Party has smeared me because of my factually accurate reporting exposing and scrutinising Labour Party politicians and officials. It is obvious to me why they’re doing it – because they’re scared that voters in Holborn & St Pancras will find out the truth about Sagal Abdi-Wali and vote accordingly. And they’re right to be scared. There is overwhelming evidence that there are serious questions to be asked about Sagal’s history, her funding, her political record, her political affiliations, her own conduct during this campaign, and her campaign’s repeated attempts to smear both journalists and local Muslim community groups. It seems to me that the only correct response is to set out everything we know about Sagal’s political history and record, which I do in a mega-thread below. The Labour Party would rather you not know this – so please share this widely everywhere you can, and particularly with voters in Holborn & St Pancras. They need to know who they are voting for. One last thing: I have repeatedly put right of replies and questions to Sagal’s campaign. They have never – not once – responded to a right of reply I have sent prior to publication. They have never raised issues with factual accuracy or balance. And this is a pattern – multiple journalists have now raised concerns that Sagal and her campaign have been dodging proper scrutiny. Considering how she has failed to respond to Camden residents experiencing serious housing problems, and those requesting expressions of solidarity with the people of Palestine, that’s perhaps not surprising.

Grenfell - 72 died from the fire, at least five died by suicide, 11,000 have PTSD, concerns about long term effects of toxicity on residents, 11 firefighters with terminal cancer - plus £1bn spent and rising. That's 'nothing' right?

Essential reading on Labour's Holborn & SP candidate, the council leader and Starmer ally Sagal Abdi-Wali ahead of tomorrow's byelection ⬇️

The intensity of the campaign against @ZackPolanski by all the main parties and media commentators is testament to the threat he poses to the status quo. If you live in #HolbornandStPancras and want a real voice in Parliament, #VoteGreen and vote for Zack on Thursday.

Labour had its chance, yet Camden still faces a housing crisis, stretched public services & rising inequality. #ZackPolanski is fighting for genuinely affordable homes, investment in our communities, action on the climate crisis & an economy that works for everyone. #VoteGreen

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This weekend I travelled from Shetland to London to support @zackpolanski in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. This contest is hugely consequential and will have huge ramifications for government policy on workers’ rights, climate, environment, migration and human rights.

Come on Holborn & St Pancras #BackZack. Please #VoteGreen for people, planet and social justice.

‘Loss of green space could be issue that decides Holborn and St Pancras byelection Labour could pay price for disappearance of parks and playgrounds around Euston station’ theguardian.com/politics/202…

Great to be out in Holborn & St Pancras this week speaking to voters about our chance to get a 6th Green MP and elect @ZackPolanski! I'm looking forward to getting out the vote tomorrow - I'll see you there. 💚

I strongly recommend that if you are able to, get down to Holborn & St Pancras tomorrow! I had an amazing time leafleting and there are many, many people turning to the Green Party. We can win this!! Let’s get @ZackPolanski elected 💚💚

With the Holborn and St Pancras by-election tomorrow, we have REMOVED the paywall from our piece on Abdi-Wali. Her campaign has been keen to avoid any serious scrutiny of their candidate. Read this if you want to understand Abdi-Wali from those who've worked with her ⬇️