A trend that was clear in the 2024 General Election has been further underlined in the May 2026 local elections. In 2024 Green candidates ran Labour second in many Constituencies in North-East London. That is to say in Waltham Forest, Hackney and Haringey.
In May 2026 the Greens took control of Waltham Forest and Hackney from Labour. Haringey is currently NOC with the Greens holding 28 seats and the combined forces of Labour and the LibDems holding 29. Of course no such combined force exists so it will be interesting to see what happens next, as it will in Enfield where the Greens hold the balance of power between the Tories and Labour.
However one may situate the politics of the Greens they are clearly to the left of Starmer Labour. Conversely the Greens do not have a good record when actually running Councils. In fact very few Councils of any stripe do given the contingencies of austerity.
Independent community, left and socialist candidates in the three Boroughs polled far higher than previous efforts reflecting a leftward move. None get elected however underlining that currently particularly in the light of the unfortunate at least partial implosion of Your Party, Greens have the recognised national brand.
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It would be good to have your views at greater length, but this is better than nothing.
It is all very tricky here in Haringey where the recent version of a Labour council has ben in some respects quite good, notably on switching housing/planning policy to favour council housing and doing less of the toxic kind of estate ‘regeneration’. It would be a pity to loose those OK Labourites. But many of us did vote Green and/or YP/HSA under the imperative of national/international messaging. Now it will be so hard for these councillors to navigate it all.
That ‘Editors’ comment was from Michael Edwards and should have mentioned justspace.org.uk/caringCity which may help.