Holborn and St Pancras · by topic
Defence, foreign affairs and the EU
Every candidate's published position on this one topic, side by side, in ballot-paper order.
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- Sagal Abdi-WaliLabour Party
There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.
Labour's 2024 manifesto ruled out a return to the EU single market, customs union or freedom of movement.
We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to recognising a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution.
With Labour, the UK’s military, financial, diplomatic and political support for Ukraine will remain steadfast.
Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged steadfast military, financial and diplomatic support for Ukraine.
- Barmy BrunchOfficial Monster Raving Loony Party
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Ewan CameronThe Conservative Party Candidate
We are pushing Labour to spend 3% of GDP on defence now, not in 2031
The Conservative Party's current plan says it is pressing for defence spending of 3% of GDP now rather than in 2031.
- Tom DarwoodIndependent
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Clare FischerClimate Party
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- George GallowayWorkers Party
Greens and Labour support sending endless £billions to Ukraine.
Criticises the Greens and Labour for supporting continued financial support to Ukraine.
We believe Britain's future lies in reindustrialisation, national sovereignty and economic policies that put workers, communities and productive industry first.
Says Britain's future lies in reindustrialisation and national sovereignty.
- Tyler Kurtis JohnsonRestore Britain
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Briony Anne Lonbay KapoorRejoin EU
I’m standing in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election on behalf of the Rejoin EU Party to give voice to the majority in favour of our membership of the EU and to protest that the main parties aren’t giving the issue the importance it merits.
Says she stands for the Rejoin EU Party to give voice to those in favour of EU membership and to protest that the main parties do not give the issue enough importance.
- Peter NewmanReform UK
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Ketankumar PipaliyaUK VOICE safer and stronger UK
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Zack PolanskiThe Green Party
Re-join the EU as soon as the political conditions are right.
The Green Party's 2024 manifesto pledged to rejoin the EU when political conditions allow.
Push for the UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and following this to immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme and removing all foreign nuclear weapons from UK soil.
The Green Party's 2024 manifesto pledged to sign the UN nuclear-weapons prohibition treaty and cancel Trident.
- Jonathan SilbermanCommunist League
What working people in Holborn and St. Pancras, the UK and globally face now is a march by rival capitalist powers to World War III alongside a mounting attack on our living standards and rights.
Says working people face a march by rival capitalist powers towards world war alongside attacks on living standards.
- Helen Spiby-VannChristian Peoples Alliance
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Patrick Thomas StillmanLiberal Democrats
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
- Ben WalkerUKIP - NO to Illegal Immigration
Nothing published that we could source on this topic.
Go deeper on defence, foreign affairs and the eu: independent sources
- Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (as enacted)
- Commons Library: UK defence expenditure
- Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
- UK in a Changing Europe
Cross-cutting: polling, fact-checking, parliamentary research
- Commons Library: constituency data dashboards
- electionleaflets.org: archive of election leaflets, searchable by area
- Electoral Commission: political finance register (donations, loans, spending)
- Full Fact
- House of Commons Library research briefings
- Institute for Government
- Ipsos Issues Index: what the public says matters most
- LG Inform: council performance and finance data
- Local Elections Archive Project: every council result since 2002
- mySociety Local Intelligence Hub: data by constituency
- UK Parliament: Commons votes (every division, how each MP voted)
- UK Parliament: petitions, with signatures by constituency