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

Ex-Greens co-leader urges council groups to reject Zionism policy

Adrian Ramsay at the Green party conference.
Adrian Ramsay is one of the Greens’ five MPs and co-led the party for four years. Photograph: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images

Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Greens, has urged his party’s councillors to reject the newly adopted “Zionism is racism” motion if it will help them stay in power in local government, in a fresh sign of internal dissent over the policy.

Ramsay, one of the Greens’ five MPs, said he was pleased that a number of Green council groups had already condemned the policy, which was adopted at the party’s conference and also calls for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel.

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