00:00Voters in Holman and St Pancras are going to the polls in a hotly contested by-election.
00:04The Northampton constituency is seen as a Labour safe seat, having been held by the party since 1983.
00:09Former Prime Minister Keir Starmer first won the constituency in 2015.
00:14He stepped down last month, prompting the by-election, after he was ousted from No. 10 by Andy Burnham.
00:20There are 15 candidates running in the poll, but it's seen as a straight fight between the Green Party's Zach
00:26Polanski and Labour's Sehgal Abdi-Walli.
00:29She's the leader of Captain Council.
00:31The campaigns have taken part in party conference season, and it's fair to say Labour's has gone far better than
00:36the Greens.
00:37Andy Burnham oversaw a triumphant party conference in Liverpool, announcing plans to seize the homes of dodgy landlords and to
00:44bring water companies back into public ownership.
00:46These are policies that have gone down well in the Northampton constituency.
00:49Zach Polanski, meanwhile, saw his party conference this weekend overshadowed by a controversial motion declaring Zionism a form of racism.
00:57While Polanski didn't actually vote on the motion himself, it dominated the headlines surrounding the conference and saw Polanski ban
01:03from Israel.
