Labour’s Green attacks are misfiring
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer described Green party policy as “nuts” and “dangerous” in an interview with the Observer yesterday. But is he underestimating one of Labour’s biggest threats?
And is Starmer alienating a generation of young voters who might run into the arms of Zack Polanski?
Rachel Cunliffe is joined by George Eaton and Will Dunn.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:06.1 | Kirstama described Green Party policy as nuts and dangerous in an interview with the observer |
| 0:11.4 | yesterday. But is he underestimating one of Labor's biggest threats? And is Stama alienating a |
| 0:17.3 | generation of young voters who might run into the arms of Zach Polanski. We'll be |
| 0:21.7 | discussing the generational divide with Will Dunn in the second half. But for now, I'm joined by |
| 0:25.8 | George Eaton. Hello, George. Hello. So you've been covering the Greens in particular today |
| 0:31.3 | and looking at this really quite explosive for Kirstama anyway, quote that he gave about Polanski and whether |
| 0:39.3 | the Green Party is a threat to Labour or is a threat to the country. What is it exactly that he said? |
| 0:45.4 | Yes, so this was in a punchy interview with the Observer where he said of the Greens, |
| 0:50.5 | they're anti-NATO at a time when the world's more volatile than ever. |
| 0:55.6 | They want to legalise drugs. |
| 0:59.3 | They think it would be all right to sell drugs outside my kid's school. |
| 1:01.6 | But ban landlords. |
| 1:02.2 | They're nuts. |
| 1:02.8 | They're dangerous. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.4 | That is pretty punchy language for him anyway, right? |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.6 | And it's part of a pattern. |
| 1:13.1 | So Steve Reid on this podcast said they're wacky. |
| 1:14.3 | I love the word wacky. |
| 1:15.4 | It's so 90s. |
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