Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay greet Deputy Leader Zack Polanski at the launch of their local election campaign in Bristol, April 4, 2024
GREEN Party deputy leader Zack Polanski launched his campaign for the party’s leadership today, ahead of the upcoming contest.
The party holds leadership elections every two years, but the current leadership has remained in post for four years due to the timing of the last general election.
Mr Polanski, who also serves as a London Assembly member, is standing on a ticket as the sole leader, meaning two deputy leaders will be elected if he wins the race.
“The Labour Party is failing, and the planet is burning,” he said.
“We need the Labour government to be more scared of losing seats to the Green Party than it is to Reform.
“We can only do that by presenting a bold, clear vision of our party that understands and has solutions to the problems that people are facing every day.
“We need everyone to know exactly what the Green Party stands for — and what we always will stand against.”
If elected, Mr Polanski will be the first openly gay leader of a political party in England.
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
