14 h. ago ‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game

This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections - by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbookZack Polanski finally decided to stand as the Greens’ leader, he says, after witnessing the party being eclipsed by Reform in last May’s local elections across England, and realising that British politics had changed for good.While the Greens made yet more steady gains, Reform won nearly 700 councillors from a standing start. As deputy leader, it was Polanski’s job to speak to losing candidates to both offer consolation and ask what lessons could be learned. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Gary Lineker opens up about BBC and claims it can 'never be impartial'

In a new interview with Green Party leader Zack Polanski, the footballing legend claimed the Beeb couldn’t always stay neutral on everything, saying 'it's impossible'

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63 h. ago Zack Polanski: I would be open to working with Labour if Andy Burnham was leader

Green party leader rules out co-operation with Keir Starmer

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3 d. ago Gary Lineker says BBC needs to look at how people are brought in at the top

Lineker is appearing on Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s podcast on New Year’s Eve where he said he would ‘never’ go into politics himself.

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7 d. ago Ditch Starmer to boost hopes of winning next election, say Labour voters in new poll

Findings of a survey commissioned by The Independent reveals Andy Burnham as favourite to take over from the prime minister

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8 d. ago Poll shock for Starmer: One in three Labour voters thinks PM should go

Findings of a survey commissioned by The Independent reveals Andy Burnham as favourite to take over from the prime minister

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9 d. ago Green leader demands Brits pay hundreds of millions of pounds to make Calais migrants more COMFORTABLE while they wait to take small boats to the UK

Zack Polanski will use his Christmas Day message to say £476m currently spent on 'cruelty' trying to stop them should to go towards a new system based on 'compassion, kindness and humanity'.

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2 w. ago Unpopular Labour is running out of opportunities to change its fate

Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski have both had good years thanks to disastrous strategy from the two main parties

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2 w. ago Former Labour elected mayor Jamie Driscoll joins Green Party

Describing Britain as a ‘mess’, the progressive politician says his new party wanted to run the country for the benefit of everyone.

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2 w. ago Andy Burnham's hopes of Labour comeback to challenge Starmer could be thwarted... because he is not a woman

Andy Burnham has been at the centre of intense speculation, with allies saying he is poised to make a comeback to the Commons.

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2 w. ago Five more London Labour councillors defect to Greens amid slumping support for Starmer in capital

Zack Polanski welcomed the Brent councillors to his party on Monday, claiming mass defection showed the ‘Green surge has widened in London’

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2 w. ago Brits think Father Christmas is a lefty who would vote GREEN

Santa was seen as most likely to back Zack Polanski's party if he backs anyone at the next election, in a poll by YouGov.

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2 w. ago Labour insiders lash back at Andy Burnham warning he WON'T get selected for Commons seat as Starmer leadership rumours swirl

Andy Burnham has been at the centre of intense speculation, with allies saying he is poised to make a comeback to the Commons.

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2 w. ago Andy Burnham hits back at claims he is plotting to replace Starmer as PM

The Greater Manchester mayor was responding to reports that he plans to run for a parliamentary seat before next May’s local elections to allow him to take over from Keir Starmer

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2 w. ago Fresh blow for Keir Starmer as Greens' Zack Polanski is most popular party leader while PM languishes as most unpopular

The Opinium survey found Mr Polanski has a net approval rating of -1, which made him the most popular leader from Britain's five best-supported parties.

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2 w. ago Small boats migrants should be allowed to live and work in the UK, says Zack Polanski

The Green Party leader has accused Sir Keir Starmer and Labour of matching ‘the racist rhetoric of the far right, from Nigel Farage to Tommy Robinson’

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3 w. ago 'People underestimate what a wrench it would be to leave this job': Andy Burnham responds to latest Labour leadership rumours

'If the call came, I'm not going to just turn away from it'

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4 w. ago On Zack Polanski’s Magic Money Tree, economic gravity simply doesn’t exist

The Green Party leader thinks Modern Monetary Theory is a cure for Britain’s woes — others see it as snake oil at best, writes Jonathan Prynn

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4 w. ago BBC Question Time audience claps as panelist skewers Nigel Farage in immigration row

Question Time on the BBC aired a special episode last night — touching only on immigration — and it led to feisty showdowns between the likes of Zia Yusuf and Zack Polanski

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