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Green Party to shift leftwards after landslide win by new leader Zack Polanski

Mr Polanski could offer a fresh headache to Sir Keir Starmer’s Government from the political left.

Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2025

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski 'open to future talks with Jeremy Corbyn'

The party’s radical deputy leader won in a landslide against co-leader Adrian Ramsay and co-runner Ellie Chowns

Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2025

Is this the left’s answer to Farage? Meet the ex-Lib Dem, ex-hypnotherapist set to lead the Green Party

Zack Polanski was once caught in a newspaper sting performing hypnotherapy sessions to enlarge women’s breasts. Now he wants to be the Nigel Farage of left-wing politics

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2025

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Zack Polanski: Eco-populist winner of Green leadership with unconventional past

The man at the helm of the Green Party once worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist.

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2025

Zack Polanski elected as new leader of Green Party

A joint ticket of two of the Greens’ MPs, Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, lost out to Mr Polanski, who is a member of the London Assembly.

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2025

Greens take step into unknown with election of Zack Polanski as leader

Polanski ruffled feathers during at-times grumpy contest and now has to bring the party with him

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2025

Green party’s new leader Zack Polanski rules out any Starmer pact and attacks ‘charlatan’ Farage

Candidate defeats Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to lead Greens in England and Wales with vision for ‘eco-populism’ movement

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2025

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Greens to unveil new leadership after fiercely fought race

Voting has closed in the race between front-running London Assembly member Zack Polanski and MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns.

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

Green party leadership race exposes tensions as electoral ambitions grow

Frontrunner Zack Polanski has dismissed claims of a ‘hostile takeover’ but contest has been unusually fractious

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2025

Zack Polanski pulling away in race to be party leader, senior Greens believe

Exclusive: Growing sense that ‘eco-populist’ could win after mounting what one opponent called a ‘hostile takeover’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2025

Green Party leadership hopefuls’ bold plan to secure votes from Labour

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns face Zack Polanski in the Green Party leadership contest

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2025

Green leadership hopefuls set out fight for frustrated Labour supporters’ votes

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns face Zack Polanski in the Green Party leadership contest.

Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025

Recall Parliament to debate Netanyahu’s Gaza plan, Green MP urges

‘We need to recall Parliament immediately to hold the UK Government to account’, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said.

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025

Share your question for the Green party leadership candidates

Let us know what questions you’d like us to put to the Green party of England and Wales candidates and we’ll publish some of them and their answers

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2025

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The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2025

Voices: This hollowing out of politics could see the death of the centre

COMMENT: Passionate intensity has always tended to be found at the extremes, writes John Rentoul, and new research into party loyalty shows that Labour and the Conservatives are both at risk

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2025

Greens begin voting in leadership battle between ‘eco-populist’ and ‘proven’ MPs

Members face a choice between MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, and an insurgent campaign led by London Assembly member Zack Polanski.

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2025

Green Party leadership candidates accuse Polanski of using ‘polarising’ language

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, two MPs who are standing to be co-leader, say their opponent could risk recent gains made by the party.

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2025

Zack Polanski’s ‘eco-populism’ could put voters off Greens, opponents say

Exclusive: Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns say party could slide into irrelevance if it chooses new leader with ‘polarising’ approach

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The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2025

Green Party responds after Jeremy Corbyn’s new party receives more sign ups

Ellie Chowns defended the Green Party after LBC's Henry Riley pointed out that Jeremy Corbyn's newly formed party has had more sign ups that them

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2025

Zack Polanski ‘open’ to working with new Corbyn and Sultana party

Green leadership candidate says any decision on alliance would be one for party members

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2025

By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics

The task is to reconcile ‘realists’ and ‘fundamentalists’, and that can be done. It would offer voters a radical alternative to Labour, says Adam Ramsay, a journalist and Green party member

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2025

Green party leadership race is between joint-MP ticket and deputy’s ‘eco-populism’ bid

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay offer election-led approach, while Zack Polanski wants radical, mass-membership movement

The National (Scotland) · Jun 25, 2025

Labour accused of making 'world more dangerous' with nuclear jets plan

Labour have been accused of "making the world ever more dangerous" over plans to buy a fleet of fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2025

I would make the Green party a force at the heart of British politics. That’s why I’m running to be co-leader

Adrian Ramsay and I are lifelong campaigners who know how to win elections. We will build a coalition of voters against divisive populist politics, says Ellie Chowns, the Green MP for North Herefordshire

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2025

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs

Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape

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