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Today in Focus

Zack Polanski on the Green party boom

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Three months into his leadership the Green party membership is surging. Randeep Ramesh explains why. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:06.0

Today, inside the Green Party surge and Zach Pananski's vision for Britain. It's a cold, wet December evening outside a lecture hall at King's College London.

0:29.6

We're waiting to meet Zach Polanski.

0:33.6

Alongside hundreds of excitable students forming cues to get into tonight's event.

0:39.3

Well, we released tickets and I think they all sold out pretty much completely within an hour.

0:43.3

And I was at the student pub the other night after our politics ball,

0:47.3

and the bartender came up to me and she was like,

0:49.3

Oh, have you got any of Plansky tickets left?

0:51.3

And I was like, I'm really sorry, no. And then also with these

0:54.3

events, just a few months ago, few people had even heard of Zach Polanski or cared who

1:00.0

the leader of the Green Party was. But the Polanski surge has been unstoppable. He's more than

1:06.5

doubled the party's membership in less than 100 days. He's all over social media feeds.

1:11.7

I think more and more people are joining the Green Party

1:13.6

because they're totally unhappy with what his Labour government are offering.

1:16.8

Podcasts.

1:17.7

Thank you for being here.

1:18.3

Thank you very much for having me.

1:19.4

What a lovely introduction.

1:20.3

Primetime TV.

1:21.5

Who would you cast to play climate change in a movie?

1:27.0

Nigel Farage. He's full of hot hour anyway.

1:33.3

The left may be in chaos, but Polanski is connecting with audiences.

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