Labour's Left Flank Shaky Amid Green Party Surge

0:00On March 10th, a surprise Green Party victory in the Gordon and Denton by-election has labor worried, finishing third in one of their safest seats. London Assemblymember Andrew Polansky revealed he's chatting with a handful of Keir Starmer's unhappy backbench MPs who feel stuck in our eyeing a leadership challenge. Polansky, a former liberal Democrat, plans to run for a Westminster seat next time, possibly Diane Abbots, if she steps down. He says just five labor defections would make the Greens bigger than reform UK, which holds eight seats in the Commons. The by-election win came after Jeremy Corbyn's group and George Galloway's workers party stood aside, uniting the left and Muslim vote. Labour's bracing for heavy losses in May's local elections, especially in big cities like London. Experts warned a broader left-packed between Polansky, Corbyn, and Galloway could hit Labour hard nationwide. Starmer called a special cabinet meeting today to tackle the fallout and rethink strategy. Meanwhile, Polansky pushes for Britain to quit NATO, ditch nuclear weapons,

1:03and build ties with Vladimir Putin while regretting past criticism of Corbyn over party issues, with locals looming, Labour's left flank looks shaky.