GREEN Party leader Zack Polanski stated today that there was no “time to wait around” for Your Party to be set up.

The founding of the new left-wing party led by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has reportedly been delayed past November.

Mr Polanski told Trevor Phillips on Sky News on Sunday that while he likes both the ex-Labour MPs and shares similar politics “Jeremy said it himself the other day — we are different people.

“Whatever they are going to set up does not exist yet.

“I don’t think we have time to wait around.

“I would say to anyone who wants to have social, environmental, racial and economic justice — join the Green Party right now.”

The new Green leader also defended his party’s manifesto proposals, rejecting claims they would blow a £170 billion hole in the public finances.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned the Greens’ pledges would require tax rises on that scale each year.

But Mr Polanski said: “I reject this talk of holes. The household budget is nothing like a national economy.

“Politicians from the Labour and Conservative Party have pushed these narratives of austerity.

“We can’t come at this conversation just about the economy — it has to be about our mental health, our well-being and physical health of the nation.

“The era of trickle-down economics was always a lie. We’re still paying interest to private banks that we don’t need to pay.”

He said that the Greens would introduce new wealth taxes, including a 1 per cent levy on assets worth £10 million or more and 2 per cent on assets worth over £1 billion.

Mr Polanski also headed to Brighton today to attend TUC Congress and Workers Planet, a one-day festival on class politics and radical solidarity.