Will the Green Party Destroy London’s Labour Mafia?

Rivkah Brown reports from the London boroughs of Lewisham, Hackney & Haringey to find out what’s behind the projected collapse in Labour support ahead of May’s local elections – and why so many of those former Labour voters are looking towards a Green party invigorated by Zack Polanski’s leadership, and the recent by-election win in Gorton & Denton.

She spoke to Liam Shrivastava and Zoë Garbett, Green party candidates for Mayor in Lewisham and Hackney respectively, as well as Green councillors in Haringey, to discover the specific ways in which people living in these Labour strongholds feel betrayed by their representatives at a local and national level

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