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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T12:20:48.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Nigel Farage boasts Reform 'wiped out' Labour and Tories as first union demands Keir Starmer resign",
    "‘I’m not going to walk away’ - Keir Starmer vows not to quit amid devastating Labour losses",
    "Scotland and Wales elections: Reform 'admits Plaid to win in Wales' as Labour concedes election",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nZoe Garbett has been elected the Green Party’s first-ever Mayor after dramatically ousting Labour in Hackney.\n\nMs Garbett won 35,720 votes in the first-past-the-post election and defeated her Labour rival Caroline Woodley by nearly 10,000 votes.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMs Woodley received 26,685 votes, losing the mayoralty which has held by Labour since the position was created in 2002.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Garbett said: \"Today we start a fightback.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"In this election, over and over, people kept telling me that they felt let down. People kept saying, ‘it’s hard for me and it’s hard for us’. Council services are failing those who need them most and people are struggling to make ends meet.\n\n\"To everyone who voted for me, I truly thank you for putting your trust in me today.\"\n\nShe added: \"I’m going to change the system. That’s why you’ve elected me, to lead the fightback here in Hackney, this campaign has never just been about the Green Party.\n\n\"Countless people, movements, organisations, parties and communities have come together to make this change possible.\"\n\nIn the wake of her victory, GB News looks back at her most outrageous views.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### Helping to block letter praising Golders Green police officers​\n\n\n\n\nThe Green Party refused to back a proposed message for the brave Golders Green police officers who responded to the antisemitic attack last month.\n\nIt is reported Ms Garbett \"could not support\" the letter intended to thank the officers for their \"swift response\" and bravery.\n\nMs Garbett objected on the grounds the video footage \"looks like two officers kicking the attacker in the side of the head after he has been tasered\".\n\nShe said: \"We should be seeking to understand if the officers were following the correct protocols.\"\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:\n\n\n\n\n  * Nigel Farage boasts Reform 'wiped out' Labour and Tories as first union demands Keir Starmer resign\n  * ‘I’m not going to walk away’ - Keir Starmer vows not to quit amid devastating Labour losses\n  * Scotland and Wales elections: Reform 'admits Plaid to win in Wales' as Labour concedes election\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### ‘We don't have to accept UK Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman’\n\n\n\n\nLast April saw a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman, according to which the terms \"woman\", \"man\", and \"sex\" in the Equality Act 2010 refer specifically to biological sex—the sex registered at birth.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Garbett slammed the ruling as \"shameful\" and \"discriminatory\" before claiming \"trans people are under attack\".\n\nShe wrote on April 25, 2025: “This shameful ruling works to further marginalise and exclude trans people, using the Supreme Court judgment as a tool to deny people access to basic facilities and vital services.\"\n\nShe added: \"I believe this ruling is discriminatory and could give people the license to push their bigotry and hate, but that doesn’t mean we have to go along with it.\n\n\"We don't have to accept this interpretation of what gender is or isn't, and we absolutely can and should resist it.\"\n\n### ‘I’ve used drugs’\n\n\n\n\nIn an interview with the Standard ahead of the local elections, Ms Garbett admitted to using drugs in the past and has called for them to be legalised.\n\nShe said: \"I’ve used drugs in the past and that’s why I’ve campaigned for them to be legally controlled and regulated.\"\n\nMs Garbett is reported to have played a significant part in crafting the Green Party’s drug policy which aims to move drugs \"into the hands of health professionals\".\n\nHackney has one of the highest rates of drug poisoning deaths in the capital and the local council estimates just over 4,000 residents are frequent drug users, representing around 6.4 per cent, higher than the London average of 5.6 per cent.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Zoe Garbett becomes Greens’ first-ever Mayor - here are some of her most outrageous views"
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