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Green party leader Zack Polanski has urged a reform of the party's grassroots democracy, saying rapid growth requires leaders to have greater control over strategic direction following a divisive vote equating Zionism with racism.
Green party leader Zack Polanski has said antisemitism will not be tolerated under his leadership, defended his absence from a conference vote on Zionism and set out plans to widen internal party democracy.
Ellie Chowns, the Greens' leader in the House of Commons, says a conference motion declaring 'Zionism is racism', passed by about 0.4% of members, shows the party's policy-making processes are not working.
Westminster leader Ellie Chowns calls a conference motion declaring Zionism a form of racism "significant and damaging policy" and says she will work to reform the party's structures.
Labour's deputy leader says the party is winning back leftwing voters disillusioned under Keir Starmer, after Sagal Abdi-Wali held Holborn and St Pancras against the Greens.
Green MP Siân Berry states party members opposed to the 'Zionism is racism' motion were persuaded not to campaign publicly due to concurrent byelection, acknowledging the motion has caused genuine damage to the party's reputation.
Andy Burnham's Labour has held Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, while the Greens more than tripled their vote share to 33% yet failed to win, according to a Guardian editorial.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
Labour has retained Holborn and St Pancras with a majority of 3,364, a result John Curtice said leaves the party better placed than six months ago but less popular than in 2025, while John Harris writes that the Greens have forfeited ground won under Zack Polanski's leadership.
Zack Polanski says he will remain Green Party leader despite losing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and facing calls to resign from within his own party over a conference motion on Zionism.
Labour has beaten the Green Party in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, and BBC Political Editor Chris Mason says Green leader Zack Polanski still faces questions about his position on a controversial conference motion that declared Zionism a form of racism.
BBC political editor Chris Mason says Zack Polanski is confronting the gravest crisis of his leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales, after a party conference motion labelling Zionism a form of racism and a by-election loss in Holborn and St Pancras.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has urged Green leader Zack Polanski to reverse a members' motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, as former leader Caroline Lucas accuses Polanski of failing to show leadership.
