Greens OVERTAKE Labour For First Time
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 1:34.2 | Woo, a spectre is haunting British politics, the specter of the Green Party under Zach |
| 1:39.5 | Plansky. |
| 1:40.3 | In a shock poll, the Green Party under its leader, Zach Polansky, has pulled ahead of the Labour Party. |
| 1:48.7 | According to the pollsters find out now, the Greens are on 15%, the same level as Labour. |
| 1:53.9 | But as economist James Moodway notes, if you look at the detailed results, the Greens are on 15.31% compared to 15.23% for Labour. All right, I'm being a bit mischievous here, |
| 2:03.9 | because polling's got a margin of error. Okay, hands up, you got me. But the trajectory is clear. |
| 2:08.7 | The Greens are surging and Labor is falling back. The Greens are enjoying their best polling |
| 2:13.0 | in their history. Just 13 months after winning the election, on the other hand, Labor is on its worst |
| 2:18.3 | polling recorded in the post-war period. This is clearly a massive political phenomenon, |
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