Somali refugee tipped to face Polanski in Starmer by-election

Labour’s front-runner to take on Zack Polanski at the by-election in Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency is a Somali former child refugee, The Telegraph understands. Sagal Abdi-Wali, who runs Camden council and was previously chairman of Sir Keir’s Constituency Labour Party, is understood to be considering a run for Parliament after the former prime minister announced he would stand down. Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the early 1990s, and has said she has been a party supporter “as long as I can remember”. She was first elected as a Labour councillor in 2022...