Sagal Abdi-Wali Succeeds Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras

Sagal Abdi-Wali, 43, won Labour's Holborn and St Pancras seat on 8 October, succeeding Keir Starmer and defeating Green leader Zack Polanski. A former child refugee, she fled Somalia at seven in the 1990s for Gospel Oak. She joined Camden council in 2022 and became its first Black female leader in May.