Sagal Abdi-Wali successfully defended Labour’s seat amid challenge from Zack Polanski’s Green Party Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia, comfortably defeated Zack Polanski in a by-election sparked by the former PM Keir Starmer quitting as an MP Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Sagal Abdi-Wali successfully defended Labour’s seat amid challenge from Zack Polanski’s Green PartyS1

• Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia, comfortably defeated Zack Polanski in a by-election sparked by the former PM Keir Starmer quitting as an MPS2