Zack Polanski: Tax wealth and cut inequality to make London a better city Exclusive: Green Party leader hits out at Labour ‘attacks’ on him as parties gear up for the May local elections Evening Standard · Jan 21
UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski Exclusive: Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the US The Guardian - UK · Jan 20
Green Party calls for free bus travel for under-22s The scheme would bring England into line with Scotland, where young people have been entitled to free bus travel since 2022 The Independent UK · Jan 17
Greens could join pact with Labour to stop Farage – but only if Starmer is replaced as leader, Polanski says Exclusive: Zack Polanski tells The Independent that doing a deal with a Starmer-led Labour Party would ‘lead to a worse version of Nigel Farage’ The Independent UK · Jan 9
It’s unwise for Labour to attack the Green party and its wealth tax proposal Letters: Readers respond to the Fabian Society’s leader, Joe Dromey, describing the Green party as a threat to be countered alongside Reform The Guardian - UK · Jan 7
Labour hits new record low in London with Tories pushed into fourth place behind Greens and Reform, poll finds EXCLUSIVE: Just 31% of Londoners now say they would vote for Sir Keir Starmer’s party, according to a Savanta survey, down from 43% at the 2024 General Election Evening Standard · Jan 6
Britain not involved in US Venezuela attack, says Keir Starmer UK prime minister describes situation as fast-moving and is waiting for more details to emerge The Guardian - UK · Jan 3
‘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 playbook The Guardian - UK · Jan 2
Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’ Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2025
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2025
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. Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2025
‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2025
Ex-Labour metro mayor and Your Party organiser Jamie Driscoll joins Greens Move by former North of Tyne mayor comes days after five London Labour councillors defect to Zack Polanski’s party The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2025
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. The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2025
Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2025 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’
The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2025 Starmer hit by five Labour defections to Greens in London It comes amid concerns that the Greens could take control of Labour councils in next year’s elections
The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2025 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’
Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2025 OPINION - Polanski’s snobbery exposes the Greens’ hollow populism - Labour’s Uma Kumaran The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2025 Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain The Green party leader is riding high in the polls. But across the political spectrum, uncritical adulation leads nowhere fast, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2025 Your Party could team up with Greens to keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, Zarah Sultana suggestts While she acknowledged that the Greens and Your Party are ‘fundamentally different parties’, Ms Sultana said ‘there has to be conversations around electoral alliances’
Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2025 Nigel Farage hits out at BBC over small boat migrants in Question Time audience Two men granted refugee status after arriving on small boats were in the Question Time audience for an immigration special edition of the show.
Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2025 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
The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2025 Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet Spending time with its activists, I’ve seen signs of a refreshing challenge to stale mainstream politics, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2025 Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time Legal spats, public denunciations and an obsession with internal process must be consigned to the past, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2025 Monday briefing: What did we learn at Your Party’s first conference? In today’s newsletter: No new name, but a decision to embark on collective leadership means that the factionalism in Your Party is here to stay