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Polanski under pressure

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News in brief

  • Zack Polanski has said he will stay on as the Green party’s leader after losing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
  • The leader of the Jewish Greens was among those calling for Polanski to step down, citing his lack of leadership over the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion.
  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has spent £1.8 million repairing Royal Lodge. He has now formally surrendered his lease.
  • The Pentagon has said the US public will be able to watch a livestream of a former army major being executed by firing squad.
  • Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights commissioner, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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On Coffee House today…

Ross Clark says Zack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat, while James Heale calls the result a sign of Andy Burnham’s signal achievement. Andrew Gilligan argues that the British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up, while Rory Hanrahan explains how Iran’s pay-as-you-go terror came to Britain. Isabel Hardman explores why Labour doesn’t want to talk about NHS waiting lists, and Druin Burch asks who is to say Simon Pegg doesn’t have ADHD.

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In pictures

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Most read on The Spectator

Labour’s by-election triumph is a sign of Burnham’s signal achievement – James Heale

Zack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat – Ross Clark

Mothin Ali’s by-election day blunder – Steerpike

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In words

‘I want to be an MP. I don’t think it’s the be-all and end-all – I think I’ve demonstrated over the last year that you can create change from outside of parliament – but absolutely the same thing stands.’

– Green party leader Zack Polanski on his by-election defeat

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