Count Binface hints at another by-election run after Starmer resigns as MP

Count Binface has hinted he could run in a by-election in Holborn and St Pancras after Sir Keir Starmer announced he will step down as MP.

The former prime minister told the Camden New Journal on Tuesday it was the “right time” to step down as an MP and focus on “international affairs” months after he was ousted from No 10 Downing Street after record local election losses and mounting pressure from his own MPs.

Minutes after news broke of Sir Keir’s exit from the House of Commons, the self-styled “intergalactic space warrior” took to social media where he posted “Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet” in apparent response to news of the incoming by-election.

It would be the novelty candidate’s third by-election of the year after he made waves in the Clacton-on-Sea standoff against Nigel Farage where he stole 26.9 per cent of the vote from the Reform UK leader.

He also stood against Andy Burnham in Makerfield in June, where he gained just 95 votes in the landslide victory for the current prime minister.

It is understood Zack Polanski has refused to rule out standing in the potential by-election. A Green Party spokesperson told Sky News of its leader, a member of the London Assembly: "Zack has always made it clear he would like to be a London MP.