Labour held Holborn and St Pancras last night which means Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali will go to the Commons. Presumably to continue her long-held campaign to introduce more illegal immigrants to Camden…
In a fundraising email sent after her selection on 9 September 2026, Abdi-Wali promoted her record of £670 million for council housing and “helping make Camden a Borough of Sanctuary.” She added: “Now, I want to take that fight to Parliament.” Oh boy…
Camden’s Borough of Sanctuary grants handed £58,000 to 12 organisations in June 2025. Among them:
That was just the proof of concept. In March 2026 the council topped the programme up with £370,000 for 2026-27, which Abdi-Wali called “essential”. Camden’s sanctuary objectives also include lobbying for “safe routes of entry into the UK”. It’s just activism…
Standing for Camden Square in 2022, she pledged “10 new sanctuary homes for refugees”, and residents trained as “sanctuary ambassadors”. When Camden won sanctuary status in 2024 she said the borough was “more vibrant and improved thanks to the refugees we have welcomed”. Weeks after she became leader this year, Camden’s libraries were declared “Libraries of Sanctuary” too. Not to mention instituting an ‘inclusion calendar‘…
The council’s housing strategy, run by Abdi-Wali as Cabinet Member for Better Homes, records 98 homes acquired for refugees while more than 8,000 people sit on the waiting list. Priorities…
Before all that, as chair of the local CLP in 2020, she was first signatory to a letter claiming Britain was not free of the “guilt or sin of institutionalised and systemic racism”. In 2019 she wrote of the “socialist principles by which I stand”. Full-throated…
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told Guido:
“Sagal Abdi-Wali seems more interested in handing out public money to illegal immigrants than in looking after the interests of British taxpayers. Families in Camden are struggling to make ends meet, but Labour’s answer is higher taxes to bankroll activist causes and pet projects.”
Still – better than Zack Polanski…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”