US EditionZack Polanski elected as new leader of Green Party
Zack Polanski won with 20,411 votes, promoting eco-populism and pledging to tax wealth, expand Green Party influence, and challenge existing political powers.
- On Tuesday , party members elected Zack Polanski, newly elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, by 20,411 votes to 3,705 over Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns.
- Zack Polanski launched his bid in May, framing it as a response to Labour and Conservative disappointments, campaigning as an 'eco-populist' while Green Party membership rose to 68,500 with 8,500 joining during the campaign.
- Previously the party's deputy leader, Polanski has been deputy since 2022 and a London Assembly member; allies praise his communication and grassroots energy, while opponents call his language polarising compared to MPs Chowns and Ramsay's continuity approach.
- Polanski signalled a direct challenge to Labour, aiming to replace Sir Keir Starmer's party, and leftists Mothin Ali and Rachel Millward won deputy leadership; he also flagged cooperation with Jeremy Corbyn's new party.
- The result positions the Greens differently in national politics, with four MPs from the 2024 general election and upcoming English local elections and Scottish and Welsh parliaments as crucial tests of their new direction reflecting generational change.
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Is Zack Polanski the Left’s answer to Nigel Farage?
The Green Party in England and Wales has a new leader and by an overwhelming majority members picked the candidate from the radical left-wing of the party – Zack Polanski. His campaign focussed on poverty and Palestine rather than plants or the planet. He’s a former actor, a member of the London Assembly, though not actually a member of parliament. So, is he now the voice of progressive populism that can take on Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn?
Green Party to shift leftwards under new leader Zack Polanski after landslide win - Birmingham Live
Zack Polanski has been elected as the new leader of the Green Party, and has vowed to shift the party's politics towards "eco-populism" as he warned "we are here to replace you" in a message to the party of Government
It’s impossible to take the Greens seriously
The Green party’s leadership announcement was live streamed using a phone which seemed to be wrapped in clingfilm and held by someone who appeared to be suffering from delirium tremens. You may not have realised that the Greens were electing a new leader. You may not even have realised that they have a leader at
Enter stage left: Ex-actor Polanski's unusual path to top Green job
Zack Polanski has stormed to victory in the Green Party leadership election on a platform promising bold communication and “eco-populism”.The new leader said he would now “take the fight to Labour”, telling Sir Keir Starmer’s party: “We are here to replace you.”While he’s made a name for himself as a feisty media performer among the party faithful, he’s little known outside the London Assembly, where he is an elected member.Beating two of the pa…
'Collaboration and cooperation' between Polanski and Your Party seems very likely
Zack Polanski has just swept into the leadership of the Green Party, with bold promises to take on the rich and their cronies. And answering a question about whether he would work with Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, and others in a new mass party of the left, he stressed that: collaboration, cooperation is in our DNA His job is obviously to focus on the Green Party and building support for it. But his comments added to his previous expression of …
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