Polls close in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election

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Polls have closed in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election to choose a new MP after former Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he was standing down from Parliament last month. Labour is hoping to fight off a challenge from the Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, who has come under renewed criticism for a policy adopted by Green members declaring Zionism as racist.

Also on the programme: Thames Valley Police has accepted that warrants obtained to search the homes of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor were unlawful. What does this mean for the ongoing investigation? And the Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
8 Oct 5PM English United Kingdom TV & Film

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