Hello and welcome to the political party.

Today's guest is Zach Polanski, leader of the Greens,

and a man that has taken them to new heights in terms of popularity,

winning that Gorton and Denton by-election,

the first ever parliamentary seat they've won in the north of England. And obviously, challenging

labour from the left. And we talk about all of that, about why the Greens are so popular under his

leadership. Why wasn't it like this before? What are the conditions that have created that

popularity, whether it can last, what's behind it, all that sort of thing.

And what sort of greeny is?

And I tease him a little bit about his former meat consumption.

But so we talk about all sorts of things.

There's lots of personal and lots of political stuff in here.

And my next guest on the live show in a few weeks' time is Lisa Nandi.

That's on the 30th of March,

right at the start of the local election campaigns. Local election campaign is obviously crucial

for all parties, but it feels particularly that Labor's local election campaign will be under

particular scrutiny. What it means for the government, just a few weeks after that, obviously,

will be critical. So Lisa Nandi, who stood for the

Labour leadership before, prominent and popular member of the Labour cabinet, coming here from one of

the leading voices within the government about what Labour is going to be standing on in that

election, what sort of outcome that they, you know, will be managing expectations about

what will happen in May. And then on the 20th of April,

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