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‘Everything I do has climate at its centre’: Hackney’s first Green mayor gets to work

Zack Polanski after the Hackney result was announced. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Reuters Garbett says there are lessons to be learned from Hackney, where Green party activists have been backing local campaigns and working

‘I’ll talk to work on Monday’: what happens when a ‘paper candidate’ actually wins

Zack Polanski](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/zack-polanski), who has since become leader. He retreated from politics to take a job at a charity. “It looked like it was difficult for me to run again, I had quite

Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow

UK, party leader Farage has been revelling in his lifelong political role as disruptor-in-chief, while fending off questions about the huge £5m gift from the British billionaire Christopher Harborne, which Farage didn

Call for vote on inquiry into claims Starmer lied over Mandelson dismissed by Labour grandees – UK politics live

UK is organising what it is calling a “national fuel protest” in Whitehall calling for action to cut petrol prices. (There don’t seem to be any plans to protest outside the US embassy

Starmer’s unpopularity was insurmountable for Scottish Labour – and a boon for Reform

party leads first minister’s questions every week. A tie has not happened before, but the assumption is that Scottish Labour and [Reform UK](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party) will take turns. The newly elected

UK’s Keir Starmer faces likely challenge following Labour’s election defeat

leader Baroness Harman to key government positions on Saturday in what is seen as a bid to shore up support. A leadership contest requires the endorsement of 81 Labour MPs. Likely challengers to the leadership

Saplings in prisons and bogs on military ranges: Labour’s plans for nature-friendly state land

Zack Polanski became leader, with an increased policy focus on areas such as economic inequality. “I would dispute the kind of priority they seem to be giving at a national level to environmental issues

Zack Polanski calls for ‘nuance’ when discussing antisemitism in rebuke of PM

Zack Polanski has called on politicians to treat antisemitism with “consideration, care and nuance” as he accused [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) of trying to play political games with the issue. The Green leader

Why Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented modern British politics

Party's leader, Zack Polanski. The last time there were local elections in Hackney, Labour won 50 of the borough's 57 seats, and the Greens just two. But now the Greens are hoping

Zack Polanski calls for Trump to be 'kicked out' of his Scottish golf courses

Zack Polanski made the comments on a visit to Glasgow as he supported his Scottish Green colleagues ahead of the Holyrood election. The leader was heavily critical of the US president, saying he had "started

Reform pledges to open migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas

UK also said it would introduce a Mass Deportation Detention Act, to give the home secretary powers to stop councils blocking the opening of detention centres. The party said that [people placed in the centres

Winners, losers and a PM on the brink - what to expect in next week's elections

Polanski's blunter politics might alienate some traditional Green voters just as they attract other new ones. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems seem to love a local campaign more than any other party - not just because

‘Grotesque’: parties criticise Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas

leader Zack Polanski, is without the relative benefits of having a parliamentary podium. But a broader strategy of sorts also appears to lie behind the policy, which appears to have been largely cooked

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

UK won hundreds of seats and control of more councils in England. The gains included Essex where the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has her constituency and which the Conservatives held for 25 years. - Plaid Cymru

Lib Dems can counter extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says

UK and the Greens. As Labour assessed a disastrous set of results, the Lib Dems could claim they had been able to fend off Reform challenges in areas including Portsmouth, where they made gains

Inside the ‘unacceptable’ UK fair selling property in Israeli settlements

UK to ban the event [Toby Shepheard/Reuters] At the stand of Tivuch Shelly, another Israeli real estate company, Isabel said representatives were more reticent to discuss properties in the occupied West Bank but were openly

London mayor slams event touting illegal Israeli settlement land sales

Green Party leader [Zack Polanski.](/news/2026/5/6/who-is-zack-polanski-uk-greens-leader-and-rising-political-star) “They are deeply tied to the ongoing displacement of Palestinians. “I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London

May elections live: millions cast their votes across England, Scotland and Wales

UK leader said: > double quotation markThe Tories tried to remove the gutless Keir Starmer and failed. > > The only way to finally remove the most unpopular and unpatriotic prime minister in our lifetime is to back

Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing

Green party leader, Zack Polanski, was recently [accused](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38774273/zack-polanski-greens-horse-racing-banned-grand-national-reform/) in the Sun of “extreme madness” after a tweet from was unearthed in which he suggested he wanted horse racing banned. But Spencer thinks

Tories are still biggest party on the right, claims Cleverly

UK leader Nigel Farage said there had been "historic vote shifts" adding: "The old ideas of left and right have literally been blown apart in the last 24 hours." Tice said his party had faced