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Green's Polanksi faces leadership questions after defeat to Labour in by-election

He came second after standing as their candidate in St Pancras and Holburn.

Green Party leader Zack Polanksi is told he needs to "de-toxify" the party after defeat to Labour in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. WATO hears the warning from former co-leader Jonathan Bartley - the current deputy leader Rachel Millward responds. As the USA announces a first public execution in almost a hundred years and says it will be streamed live Professor Austin Sarat, author of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, puts it in historical context.
Also on WATO: after a review of ADHD and Autism diagnosis finds that mental health provision is unsustainable, we speak to Health Select Committee chair Layla Moran on what the next steps should be. And the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 goes to Navi Pillay, former UN human rights commissioner, the chair of the judging panel, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, explains the verdict and his message to President Trump.

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