Green Party elects "eco-populist" leader to challenge Labour, aiming to shift further left and appeal to dissatisfied voters.
Britain's Green Party elected a self-styled "eco-populist" as its new leader on Tuesday (September 2, 2025), as it seeks to gain traction by exploiting dissatisfaction with the Labour government among left-wing voters.
Zack Polanski, a former actor, wants to make the Greens as noisy on the left as Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK party is on the right, at a time when British politics is fracturing into a multi-party system.
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