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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Burnham too influenced by ‘vested interests’ to offer change, Polanski says

Green Party leader Zack Polanski gestures while speaking at a microphone
Zack Polanski said the reported decision to appoint Shabana Mahmood as chancellor showed Burnham was ‘subservient to the City of London’. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Andy Burnham is “too in hock to vested interests” to offer real change, Zack Polanski has said as the Greens launched a pushback against the incoming prime minister, portraying him as cautious and weak on such areas as wealth taxes, Gaza and rent controls.

Under Polanski’s leadership the Green party in England and Wales has more than tripled its membership, and is closely tracking Labour in opinion polls, with much of the new support coming from former Labour voters disenchanted with Keir Starmer’s approach.

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