Zoë Garbett | |
|---|---|
 Zoë Garbett in 2023 | |
| Member of the London Assembly for Londonwide | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Siân Berry |
| Hackney Borough Councillor forDalston ward | |
| Assumed office 5 May 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Website | zoe4london |
Zoë Garbett is a British politician currently serving as a member of theLondon Assembly for theGreen Party since May 2024.
She was theGreen Party candidate forMayor of London in the2024 London mayoral election. She was fourth on the Green Party's list for theLondon Assembly, and was not elected; however,Siân Berry resigned to focus on her bid to get elected as an MP forBrighton Pavilion. This allowed Garbett to take her place.[1]
Garbett currently serves as Leader of theGreen Party onHackney London Borough Council, as well as the councillor for Dalston ward sinceMay 2022. She previously ran forMayor of Hackney in the 2023 by-election.[2]
Garbett grew up inTaunton,Somerset.[3] She attendedRichard Huish College.[4]
In the2022 UK local elections, Zoë Garbett contested both a seat inHackney London Borough Council and for the directly-electedMayor of Hackney.
In the2022 Hackney London Borough Council election, Garbett was first elected as a councillor for Dalston ward, receiving 1,446 votes or 62.8% of the vote.[5] She was the first green councillor to be elected to the position.
In the2023 Hackney mayoral election, she came in second place with 17% of the vote, behind the Labour Party candidate,Philip Glanville.[6]
Following Hackney mayor Philip Glanville's suspension from the Labour Party over a photograph taken with a convincted paedophile and former councillor,[7] Garbett put forward a motion of no-confidence against Glanville, but it did not reach a debate of the full council.[8] Mayor Glanville resigned two weeks later, vacating the position on 22 September 2023 and triggering a mayoral by-election.[9]
Shortly after she was announced as the Green Party candidate in the2023 Hackney mayoral election.[10][11] Garbett came second place with 24.5% of the vote, behind the Labour Party candidate.[12]
On 10 February 2023, she was announced as the Green Party candidate for the2024 London mayoral election.[13] Garbett launched her London mayoral campaign manifesto on 8 April 2024, committing to abolishingfare zones to implementing a flat-fee for travel on theLondon Underground,Overground andDocklands Light Railway.[14][15] Garbett also campaigned on implementingrent controls, and establish a commission for reducing rents.[16][17] Garbett came fourth, with 145,114 votes, narrowly behind the Liberal Democrat candidate with 145,184 votes.[18]
In September 2024, Zoë Garbett was involved in the founding of the left-wing organisationGreens Organise.[19][20]
