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    "text": "📢 Some news from me. I’ll have been a councillor for 12 years in 2026. After the brilliant Green local election results last week, this is the right moment to let a new generation of voices come up in Islington. I’ll be stepping back from the council next year to focus on my London Assembly role.",
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          "alt": "Article in Islington Tribune with headline “Green history maker to sign off at elections. \n\nWith photo of Caroline smiling and another photo of new council candidate Talia smiling. \n\nFull text of article:\n\nISLINGTON’S longest serving Green councillor will step down at next year’s council elections, the Tribune can reveal.\n\nCaroline Russell, who has been a councillor in Highbury for more than a decade, has said that she will not re-stand for election next May in order to focus on her work in the London Assembly.\n\nShe said: “It feels like the right time. We need to grow the party, and I really want to focus on the London Assembly. It’s important to know when the right time is to step away, to let other people take up the mantle.”\n\nThe Greens have selected four target wards as they gear up for the 2026 council elections – Highbury, Tufnell Park, Tollington, and Clerkenwell.\n\nFuelled by recent wins elsewhere in London, they say they feel confident that their presence in the Town Hall will grow after the next local vote.\n\nAsked whether they were, however, too reliant on anti-Labour sentiment, Cllr Russell said: “I think it’s the time to seize on the pro-Green sentiment. Around the country, people are voting for Greens. They’ve seen that we work hard, and that we represent our communities.”\n\nShe added: “The political weather is definitely changing. It’s been tough for the Greens. Ever since Jeremy Corbyn became leader and all through that period, it’s not been a good electoral environment”. But Cllr Russell said the tide was now turning.\n\n“The Greens have been clear on issues like Gaza, trans rights, inequality and being brave enough to say we need to tax the richest people in society,” she said.\n\n“People want to vote in a positive way, and I know that after the election next May there will be a much bigger group of Green councillors on the council.”\n\nCllr Russell was the only opposition councillor in the chamber when she was first elected in 2014, sitting on a separate b…",
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