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BREAKING: Green Party pull level with Labour in latest polling – securing joint 3rd place

In a new poll by Find Out Now, it seems the Green Party under Zack Polanski has pulled level with the ruling Labour Party under Keir Starmer. This means, as Green Elects has pointed out, that the party is now the joint third-biggest in the country for the first time ever.

Green Party surge

Find Out Now notes that this variation is within the margin of error. But a year into Keir Starmer’s flailing right-wing government, public opinion has clearly been shifting away from Labour for a long time. One key sign of this is that Starmer has earned himself the title of ‘most unpopular prime minister ever‘ (and we’ve had loads of bad ones to choose from).

The Greens, meanwhile, are on a roll after the election of clear-talking left-winger Zack Polanski. The party is as big a challenge to Labour as Reform. But Starmer, whose project was always about crushing the left, has predictably opted to pander to the far right instead of making overtures to the left. And, abandoning Labour voters in such a blatant fashion has been clearly disastrous for Starmer’s regime, but beneficial for the Greens.

The accessible clarity of Polanski’s message seems to be cutting through just as Labour’s right-wing leadership is digging in. And that’s exactly what the left needs right now: courage to speak the truth about the current situation and the skill to set out an alternative in language that everyone can understand. That’s something that all the dodgy money and underhand scheming in the world couldn’t give Starmer and his corporate cronies.

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By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.