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Green MP insists party will still stand in Makerfield despite calls from senior members to step aside

Senior Green Party members called on the party to withdraw from the crucial by-election

The Independent UK

The UK is hosting the world’s education ministers – while abandoning the world’s children

COMMENT: The decisions the UK makes about overseas aid spending over the next five years will shape the next fifty, writes Ellie Chowns – we cannot afford for global education to fall down the priority list

The Independent UK

What Hannah Spencer’s historic win means for the Green party’s future

The byelection in Gorton and Denton this week has been huge for the Green party of England and Wales, with Hannah Spencer pushing Reform’s Matt Goodwin into second place, and Labour into third. Having one extra MP in parliament may not seem like a big milestone, but this byelection win…

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‘We have to book bigger rooms’: Green membership surge causes novel problems

Party rides high with new leader Zack Polanski winning media plaudits and supporter numbers doubling to 140,000

The Guardian - UK

Cracking down on repeat protest means ‘giving succour to haters’ – MP

Shabana Mahmood was not proposing the ‘removal of the right to protest’, she told the Commons.

The Independent UK

Wednesday briefing: How Zack Polanski’s populist takeover could change the Green party forever

In today’s newsletter: The leftwing candidate crushed rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns. Will his leadership take the party to new heights – or risk alienating hard-won moderates?

The Guardian - UK

New Green leader Polanski distances party from electoral pact with Corbyn

Leftist would need to see ‘very strong arguments’ before agreeing a deal with party launched by ex-Labour leader

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Man of the people Zack Polanski hauls play-safe Greens into the spotlight

The new party leader is not afraid to say what he thinks, and that is pretty much anything to get attention

The Guardian - UK

New Green Party leader wants to ‘reclaim’ populism after landslide win

Zack Polanski warned Labour: ‘We are here to replace you.’

Evening Standard

Zack Polanski becomes Green party leader – what happens next?

Zack Polanski is the new leader of the Green party in England and Wales after winning a leadership election promising a programme of “eco-populism”. Polanski beat incumbent leader Adrian Ramsay and his partner on the ticket, Ellie Chowns.

The Conversation

Green Party to shift leftwards after landslide win by new leader Zack Polanski

Mr Polanski could offer a fresh headache to Sir Keir Starmer’s Government from the political left.

Evening Standard

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski 'open to future talks with Jeremy Corbyn'

The party’s radical deputy leader won in a landslide against co-leader Adrian Ramsay and co-runner Ellie Chowns

Evening Standard

Is this the left’s answer to Farage? Meet the ex-Lib Dem, ex-hypnotherapist set to lead the Green Party

Zack Polanski was once caught in a newspaper sting performing hypnotherapy sessions to enlarge women’s breasts. Now he wants to be the Nigel Farage of left-wing politics

The Independent UK

Zack Polanski: Eco-populist winner of Green leadership with unconventional past

The man at the helm of the Green Party once worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist.

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Zack Polanski elected as new leader of Green Party

A joint ticket of two of the Greens’ MPs, Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, lost out to Mr Polanski, who is a member of the London Assembly.

The Guardian - UK

Greens take step into unknown with election of Zack Polanski as leader

Polanski ruffled feathers during at-times grumpy contest and now has to bring the party with him

The Guardian - UK

Green party’s new leader Zack Polanski rules out any Starmer pact and attacks ‘charlatan’ Farage

Candidate defeats Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to lead Greens in England and Wales with vision for ‘eco-populism’ movement

Evening Standard

Greens to unveil new leadership after fiercely fought race

Voting has closed in the race between front-running London Assembly member Zack Polanski and MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns.

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The Guardian - UK

Green party leadership race exposes tensions as electoral ambitions grow

Frontrunner Zack Polanski has dismissed claims of a ‘hostile takeover’ but contest has been unusually fractious

The Guardian - UK

Zack Polanski pulling away in race to be party leader, senior Greens believe

Exclusive: Growing sense that ‘eco-populist’ could win after mounting what one opponent called a ‘hostile takeover’

The Independent UK

Green Party leadership hopefuls’ bold plan to secure votes from Labour

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns face Zack Polanski in the Green Party leadership contest

Evening Standard

Green leadership hopefuls set out fight for frustrated Labour supporters’ votes

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns face Zack Polanski in the Green Party leadership contest.

Evening Standard

Recall Parliament to debate Netanyahu’s Gaza plan, Green MP urges

‘We need to recall Parliament immediately to hold the UK Government to account’, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said.

The Guardian - UK

Share your question for the Green party leadership candidates

Let us know what questions you’d like us to put to the Green party of England and Wales candidates and we’ll publish some of them and their answers

The Independent UK

Voices: This hollowing out of politics could see the death of the centre

COMMENT: Passionate intensity has always tended to be found at the extremes, writes John Rentoul, and new research into party loyalty shows that Labour and the Conservatives are both at risk

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