‘It’s an existential moment’: Greens take on Reform in fight for fed-up voters

Zack Polanski (right), the Green party’s deputy leader, and local council candidate Catherine Read speak to local resident Steve Traveller in Market Lavington. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian

With its thatched cottages and patchwork fields, Wiltshire is a traditional true-blue Tory heartland; its county council is always dominated by Conservatives.

But this week, the Greens think they stand a good chance of winning their first seats on the council because people are so fed up with the main parties.