{"id":18800,"date":"2025-09-03T04:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18800"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:06:35","slug":"can-the-green-partys-new-leader-galvanise-the-left-green-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18800","title":{"rendered":"Can the Green party\u2019s new leader galvanise the left? | Green party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Tuesday morning, the self-proclaimed \u2018eco-populist\u2019 Zack Polanski became the new leader of the Green party of England and Wales. The 42-year-old London Assembly member and former actor hopes to meet the political moment by building on the Greens\u2019 recent electoral success and capitalising on the frustration and political homelessness felt by many on the left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Guardian\u2019s senior political correspondent <strong>Peter Walker<\/strong> tells <strong>Nosheen Iqbal<\/strong> there is a buzz around the Green party like never before. Walker describes how after a relatively charged leadership contest for the Greens, the party has decisively backed Polanski\u2019s call for faster expansion \u2013 as opposed to the steady and more consolidated approach offered by his leadership rivals \u2013 and explains how the new leader sees much to learn from the rapid rise of Reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Finally, in an interview with Walker, Polanski outlines his approach to Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour party<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em>Support the Guardian today:<\/em><em> theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span> Photograph: James Manning\/PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, the self-proclaimed \u2018eco-populist\u2019 Zack Polanski became the new leader of the Green party of England and Wales. The 42-year-old London Assembly member and former actor hopes to meet the political moment by building on the Greens\u2019 recent electoral success and capitalising on the frustration and political homelessness felt by many on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[11496,728,135,1199,2651,10673],"class_list":{"0":"post-18800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-galvanise","9":"tag-green","10":"tag-leader","11":"tag-left","12":"tag-party","13":"tag-partys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}