Hackney’s new Green mayor: People want an alternative

Hackney’s new and first Green mayor has said her win shows that voters “want an alternative” to traditional two party politics, after she unseated Labour after 24 years. Zoe Garbett, who won with 35,720 votes to Labour’s 26,865, told The Independent that “people feel let down with the old establishment parties”, as she won the Green Party’s first mayoral election. “I am really excited to show what we can do here as a Green Council in Hackney and what that means for London and for the country,” she said. Asked how confident she was that the Green Party’s momentum would continue, she said: “It absolutely will. You know, every time we've had Greens elected in Hackney, people have seen what we can deliver, and this is just a part of that growing and continuing story.”