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Hello and welcome to the edition from The Spectator.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

The latest issue of the magazine has just gone to print, and to talk about what's inside

it, I'm delighted to be joined by The Spectator's Daily Newsletter Editor, Angus Colwell,

our best life columnist, Rachel Johnson, and her dog, Ziggy,

and the politics editor of Politics Joe, Ava Santina Evans.

Our cover this week is Zach Doth,

and in it, Angus argues that under the leadership of

Zach Polansky, the Green Party has become more about Gaza than the environment.

So, Angus, since you've written this excellent cover piece this week, I wondered if you could

just summarise for our listeners and our viewers why you think the Green Party has become more about left-wing

populism now than it has environmentalism? Well, I think nature was a vacuum. So from about 2020 to

2025, you don't have a organised left party in this country. Stama repositioned Labour on the

centre-left and completely posed the Corbynacht from the party. It was a matter of how they were going to organise, I think, and where, rather than if they would. So you have, at the time, all these spinter groups, you can't do it in the Labour Party because the centre had assumed too much control of the party machinery. So then it became basically down to,

does the left want to go with Jeremy Corbyn, or does the left one to go with Zach Polanski? Left side, Polanski, there's less baggage. What this means for the Green Party is, you know, they've always been a party that's done a whole manifesto, you know, like they've not just always been about climate, but climate has been forefront. Now what you have is a broader left populism strategy, which has a lot to do with, as we could see, like Zionism, the Gaza War, Polanski really tapped into the energy on that, particularly when he was elected last year. You see that with their spring conference this weekend, where the Zionism is racism, motion is going to be discussed. And I think this is very interesting because it's Scullet Maguire, the pollster,

makes this point in the piece when I spoke to her. It's very easily forgotten that in 2017,

Jeremy Corbyn issued 40% of the popular vote on a more left-wing platform than he ran on in 2019.

There is an appetite for this stuff. Zach Polanski knows it. And that's why he's repositioning the Greens away from being a climate first party.

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