Yes. Zack Polanski named Lambeth as a Green target in April 2026, though its diverse demographics make a full takeover harder than in other inner London boroughs.Source: uk-elections-2026

Background

Lambeth is an inner south London borough running from the Thames at Waterloo down through Brixton and Streatham. It has been a Labour council for decades and is among the boroughs the Green Party explicitly named as a 2026 target in Zack Polanski's campaign launch .

Lambeth's diverse population includes significant Afro-Caribbean communities alongside younger, predominantly white professional residents who have increasingly backed the Greens. The borough's internal diversity makes a Green takeover harder to deliver than in more homogenous Labour councils, but ward-level gains remain plausible.

How the World Sees Them

Local Government Association

significant risks to statutory services

Rupert Lowe / Restore Britain

Reform-sponsored media circus

Kemi Badenoch / Conservative Party

fake by-election

Nigel Farage / Reform UK

people versus the establishment

Scottish Government (SNP under John Swinney)

no secret plan

UK Government (MHCLG and Downing Street)

The UK Government does not support independence or another referendum. Our focus must be on delivery, not division.

Welsh Government (Plaid Cymru)

we clearly face an emergency within the NHS in Wales

Russell Findlay (Scottish Conservatives)

I will absolutely not be resigning this weekend.

Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru)

It is the greatest privilege of my life to be elected First Minister in a nation that means so much to me.