Fresh London Labour Losses as Southwark Councillor Joins Greens and Brent Candidate Switches to Lib Dems

Overview

• Southwark councillor Sam Foster left Labour to join the Green Party and will now represent Faraday ward for the Greens.
• Foster cited Labour’s asylum plans as “fascistic” along with scrapping jury trials and watering down workers’ rights as motivations for his move.
• In Brent, long‑serving Labour figure Fiona Mulaisho resigned and joined the Liberal Democrats, saying she will stand for them in Queen’s Park and alleging a toxic culture and being told she was the wrong ethnicity to stand in her area.
• Southwark Council now has 47 Labour councillors, 11 Liberal Democrats, 3 independents and 2 Greens, after Foster became the second Southwark defection to the Greens in a month following Kath Whittam.
• London Labour has seen more than a dozen councillors depart in recent months alongside council by‑election setbacks, while a 5 November Find Out Now poll reported by Novara put the Greens on 18%, ahead of Labour on 15% and behind Reform UK on 33%.