Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

This week, we've once again teamed up with the pollsters at Thinks Insight, for a special episode

looking at the Greens, and those voters thinking of backing Zach Polanski's party at the next election.

Like our previous episode on potential switches to reform, we're going to be party at the next election. Like our previous episode,

on potential switches to reform, we're going to be looking at the results of focus groups with former Labour voters flirting with the Greens, as well as those strongly thinking about

backing them, and assess why they're having a moment within our new multi-party environment,

ahead of their three-way fight with Labour and Reform in next week's by-election in Gorton and

Denton,

and looking to May's crucial local elections across the UK.

Women to discuss the Greens' current successes is one of their MPs,

Ellie Chowns, who won the North Herefisher seat in 2024,

along with Annie Jennings, director at Thinks, and who conducted the focus groups and polling for us.

I'm my editor here at Poll Home 2, Adam Payne.

Thank you. conduct the focus groups and polling for us. I'm an editor here at Poll Home 2, Adam Payne. So Adam, just explain to us the key findings from the polling that we've had done.

Yeah, thanks, Alan. So for a while and now, Portix Home has been collaborating with things

in sight. And in the latest piece of research, we've been looking at the Green Party

and we've been looking at people who are currently considering voting for the party. Obviously,

the backdrop to this is that the party has surged in recent opinion polls, largely at the expense

of the Labour Party and is hopeful of winning the G Gordon and Denton by-election next week,

which would be a seismic outcome.

What's clear in these findings is that the leaders at Polanski,

who was elected in September, I believe last year,

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