GP Aggregator

This website seeks to aggregate information on the Green Party for the purpose of comparing it with what happens in the Labour Party and Your Party. The aim is to explore the spread of over half a million people in Labour in 2015-2021, who may now  be in 265,000 member Labour, 230,000 member Greens and 42,000 member Your Party.

This website is thus connected for comparison purposes to Labour Dashboard and YP Aggregator to explore these comparative issues. The aim is to explore the Parties together as institutions.

As well as the "current news" section on this page (covering their conference below), on other pages it covers Party Structures and also has a page to act as an Archive of useful links and to explore Narratives.

The rise of the Greens from  a party that had less than 14,000 members 12 years ago and only been once over 60,000 before 2025 to 230,000 today is the development of a large new institution so it seems important to understand such a large organisation more.

It's interested to explore whether things that were were important to Labour members in political rows during 2015-19 are still as important to people now? Is what was advocated then a principle or was it merely a tactic in a conflict at the time? There may be more of these than some realise. 

It's underlying assumption is those members shown in different parties above are quite possibly now far more "comfortable" in the Party they are now in rather than being in conflict in one single party they may have been in the past. In the Greens a very clear 85% Leader result (after Labour's much less decisive 62%) may have been a "signal" for many to sign up after past experiences and that hypothesis is explored on the Structures section of this website.

Also as I set out here how much do expressive v instrumentalist (my own version being "party as a platform" to express v "party as a gateway" to be inducted into, that I defined in Feb 2015 during the previous "Green Surge" of membership in 2014/15) makes a difference to how people are motivated to see and do politics? The issue was explored as early as late 2015 by Peter Kellner and used very organisationally effectively, rightly or wrongly to help Keir Starmer to win selection and I cover the detail of that from a Labour context on Labour Dashboard. In the last decade social media driven low institutionalised Hyperpolitics has seen the two divide concepts above together mix more within political party contexts and arguably break into conflict. Alan Lockey has set out some very useful points as to a failing of Stamerism is it did not continue the segmentation in government but more importantly that is it not going away. In many ways the fluctuations of Green membership since 2013 from 14,000 up to 63,000 ,down to 39,000, back up to 68,000 and now up to 230,000 is a very useful metric indeed for the level of that platform/expressiveness and how well networked it gets.

The size of the Green membership means one can now explore these issues institutionally with them too now. Politics is naturally a mix of equally valid instrumentalist & expressive motivations (eg even the Labour Party recognises this with "Clause 1" AND "Clause IV" of its rules) but how well do political parties as structured institutions historically operating more by gateway instrumentalism work with this mix when social movements tend to be where a concentration on expressive platform politics has worked more easily?  What happens if the "comfortability" hypothesis above suggests we now have a large party institution made up of a much higher proportion of "ethically certain" "expressive" activists  who in Kellner's original 2015 argument do not "motivationally need to "win" a general election and expressively "winning the argument" is equally important rather than perhaps a more secondary outcome for "what counts is what works/wins" instrumentalists? What are the implications for a party with those possible characterisitics and also for politics more widely?

If I have any suggestion to political parties in general after watching Labour across its "2015-2026 Two antithesis Leaders period" and now looking at the Greens, is that political parties, whether more for the intrumentalist or the expressive, are pretty rubbish at "inducting" large numbers of new members in general. An examination of the Green Party training offer seems to focus more on experienced electoral campaigners than new members so the Greens may be going through the same issues Labour went through over member assimilation into party culture. To show what might be practically needed for any "induction" this website aims to explain the Greens as an institution through data and perhaps in places set out questions for self-reflection that even the most "ethically certain" might want to explore?

Disclaimer: This website is purely for comparative research and not associated with the Green Party in any way and any dates/deadlines mentioned should not be taken as correct and should be sourced directly.

Note: I normally hand search all my data, but as an experiment, I did use AI to gather some material for 3 small pieces of summarising text in a few sections and I do specify where it is used. However I am carefully checking all links and material and substantially re-editing  the text often deleting extraneous or duplicated material.

Green Party Autumn Conference  2-4 October, Brighton

• Attendance: 3000+ Was until last year 1,000 to 1,500 members but is significantly expanding. Most will be members with a right to vote as the Conference is non-delegate.

• Comparison Events in terms of Total Attendance: Labour 18,000, Conservatives 12,000, Reform 8,000, Liberal Democrats 3,500, Your Party 2,500, TUC 3,000 . Important to note these numbers includes a lot of visitors as well as voting delegates. For example Labour likely has 1,200 to 1,500 delegates representing 265,000 members and  1.5 million TU affiliates with the rest visitors and staff.

• More information will be added here as the Conference receives more coverage along with any useful or comparative commentary.

Core information

• Green Party website Conference information

• How Conference works - Spring 2026 

• Basic Information for first time attenders

• How Green Party Conference works - a video by a Green Party member

Online Conference

• Note: Leadership speeches were all that they livestreamed in 2025. The Green Party is now the only one of the 5 main parties not to livestream its plenary sessions.

• Livesteams of some keynote speeches This is 

• Zack Polanski's Leader's Speech LIVE: Green Party Conference 2026

• Deputy Leaders' Speech LIVE | Green Party Conference 2026

Conference Agenda

• Conference Overall Agenda

• Timetable overview Also a Pdf here and a slightly earlier draft here.

Motions

• Green Party Conference Agenda - SOC Motions List

• Greens for Palestine Motion  - this likely to receive media coverage at this conference. Greens for Palestine have also produced a booklet explaining the motion here. Jewish Greens Survey is here.

• This claimed figure currently suggests that the Greens for Palestine motion, as unamended, which would change Party policy from 1/2 ambiguity (2024 Manifesto) to 1 state has at least 25% support from the 3,000 voting conference so far

Analysis and More detailed Reportage on Motions - general news items below

• Motion E02: Zionism is Racism - what’s at stake? 

• REVEALED IN FULL: Every Motion at Green Party Conference – Guido Fawkes Important to note this is a non-prioritised list of all the motions initially submitted from individual members to give a flavour of what is put forward. Members then vote online to prioritise motions before conference.

Conference Core Elements

• Keynote Speeches from the Party Leader, Co-Deputies, and Wales Green Party Leader

• Plenary Sessions: Debating and voting on major internal reports, constitutional amendments, and motions.

• Internal Elections Hustings The elections themselves are conducted online as all member OMOV ballots - see more below.

• Panel discussions at autumn conference

• Training 2026

• Autumn-2026-External-Fringe

• Autumn-2026-External-Fringe

• Social events at Conference

• Exhibition 

Fringe Events

• Autumn-2026-External-Fringe Also Earlier version here  

• VerdantThinking events at Green Party conference

• Compass on X: "🌳 TOMORROW at Green Party Conference Join @Neal_Compass, @CarolineLucas and @josephalextodd to discuss how the Greens could defeat Reform and the causes of Reform in a fundamentally reshaped political landscape. Please note, you will need a conference pass to attend our event. https://t.co/kMFMEtmjSq" / X 

• (1) Luke Tryl on X: "In Brighton at the Green Party conference? Do come along to our programme of fringe events tomorrow culminating in our flagship deep dive: “Where next for the Greens?” 4:15 in the Alexandra Room, The Grand. https://t.co/S3IgUbStER" / X 

• Adam Payne on X: "Green conference! Where next for the party? That’s the discussion I’ll be chairing at 16:15 tomorrow for @Moreincommon_ w/ @LukeTryl, @AyoCaesar, @HarrietLamb_, @joehudsonsmall & @LiamShrivastava https://t.co/oOo7X3406G" / X 

• (1) UCL Policy Lab on X: "We’ve arrived in Brighton as our busy conference programme continues with Green Party Conference! Join us @Moreincommon_ and @ucl as we discuss new research on Disagreeing Well and how we can reach out across differences. 3pm at The Grand Alexandra Room https://t.co/sm38nMl4af" / X 

Factions and Special Interest Groups promoting Motions

• Go to the Structures page for the list. Let us know if any more to add.

Rules Relevant to Conference

• Standing Orders for the Conduct of Conference (SOCC)

• Procedural-Motions-at-Conference

Issues/Organisations active at conference

• A few items spotted where organisations are doing things at Green Conference

• (2) Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 on X: "This emergency motion to Green Party of England & Wales conference next week requires 50 proposers to go forward; it now has 67; comrades are trying to get as many as possible, and hopefully at least 100. If you're a Green member, please add your name: https://t.co/8n2qVLKYRW" / X 

• Reform Political Advertising on X: "We are going to @TheGreenParty conference on Saturday. If you are a supporter or working on the wider challenge of disinformation in our elections and would like to say a quick hello dm us. https://t.co/BlYjFs6rIu" / X 

Conference News Items and online coverage

This is a list of online news and commentary on news involving the Green Party (which may cover some political elements of the Holborn & St Pancras by-election too) in the run up to Green conference from a very wide range of viewpoints which is provided as published online just for information/context. Green Party official responses are available on the Structures page with links to their Media Releases and X feed.

Pre-Conference

• Green members table anti-Canary motion for party conference 

• Polanski request to postpone Greens’ conference to focus on byelection refused by party | Green party | The Guardian

• Polanski opposes 'divisive' Zionism is Racism motion - YouTube

• Daisy Eastlake on X: "🟢 EXC: Green Party members will be encouraged to back “armed” Palestinian resistance and the end of the “monstrous state” of Israel at their conference as part of a vote on whether to make “Zionism is racism” party policy Activists who lead the party sub-group Greens for" / X 

• (2) Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 on X: "We are raising it, and comrades in the Green Party of England & Wales are seeking to put an emergency motion to their party's upcoming conference." / X 

• (1) Daniel Sugarman on X: "I understand that the Committee of the Jewish Greens group has now been taken over by anti-Zionists, backed by former Corbynite/JVL cadres. Hence this in their 'pre-Yom Kippur message', clearly intended to soften up the ground for the hideous "Zionism is Racism" motion this week https://t.co/HsqiCKrX9E" / X 

• Greens urged to back ‘Zionism is racism’ as party policy 

• Polanski opposition to 'Zionism is racism' motion condemned 

• Is Polanski playing us on Palestine?

• ‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists | Zack Polanski | The Guardian 

• Politics UK on X: "🚨 NEW: Green Party members have been told to cancel their tickets to the party's conference and campaign for Zack Polanski instead https://t.co/geoILbpell" / X 

• ollie cole on X: "NEW: Green Party has told members to cancel their tickets to their conference next weekend in order to campaign for Zack Polanski to become an MP They’re reminding members of refunds for cancellations to ensure people don’t head to Brighton instead https://t.co/Fr04RLJ2DZ" / X 

• Alexander Louis Sallons on X: "Green Party staff undermining the democratic structures of the party because they couldn't get conference cancelled is unbelievably shite." / X 

• (2) The Crispin Flintoff Show on X: "All to stop the Zionism is Racism motion Zack Polanski wanted the Green Party Conference postponed for the by-election in Holborn & St Pancras. The Green Party executive voted against this. So now the Green Party machine is asking people to forego the conference and go https://t.co/QVV6hXyweW" / X 

• (2) Mike on X: "@CrispinShow This could work well for the motion. Libs are more likely to go doorknock for pappa Zack, and the anti-Zionists can go make history in Brighton." / X 

• megan kenyon on X: "🟢NEW: The Green Party has responded after reports that members have been urged to cancel their plans for party conference in Brighton between 2-4 October to campaign for Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras instead. A spokesperson said: "Many of our members are torn between" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Zack Polanski labels Green Party ‘Zionism is racism’ motion an ‘unhelpful distraction’ https://t.co/KBo2CFj5wN" / X 

• Oz Katerji on X: "Polanski is trying to walk a tightrope between his beliefs and the desires of the unhinged antisemitic activists in his party who want the Greens to have an anti-Western/pro-Iran foreign policy platform, and that is a circle he cannot square." / X 

• (1) Darren Johnson on X: "Polanski's dilemma: trying to square the circle between sane but angry voters and insane but even angrier activists." / X 

• The Crispin Flintoff Show on X: "Why did @declassifiedUK interview Zack Polanski on Monday and not mention the furore about his opposition to the Zionism is Racism motion?" / X 

• (1) Asa Winstanley on X: "A transparent attempt by @TheGreenParty and its leader @ZackPolanski to subvert the will of the party’s membership to vote through the anti-Zionist policy at conference." / X 

• (3) Luke on X: "Do: campaign for us Do Not: have democratic input on policy is a very on the nose summary for the bureaucracy of a centre left party to give you of their relationship to the grassroots." / X 

• (2) Yachad UK on X: "1/ The "Zionism is Racism" motion, to be debated at the Green Party conference in Brighton on 2–4 October, and the literature produced to support it, are deeply troubling." / X 

• Faye Brown on X: "NEW: Zack Polanski backs two amendments which would water down the  “Zionism is Racism” motion being debated at the Green Party conference, Sky News understands. The amendments, which have been selected for a vote, pushback on the call for a single Palestinian state with" / X 

• Noa Hoffman on X: "In the influential Greens for Palestine WhatsApp chat Zack Polanski continues to be accused by members of being insufficiently anti-Israel. On the topic of requests to postpone Green conference in order to campaign in the by-election, one activist remarks: “He’s running scared of" / X 

• Matt Kennard on X: "Polanski’s proposed amendments watering down the Zionism is Racism motion are reflective of a very insidious (but effective) element of the Israel lobby It’s an element which is critical of atrocities committed by Israel but tries to whitewash and obfuscate the ethnosupremacist," / X 

• Archie Woodrow on X: "i suspect part of the problem here is that the Greens don't publish their conference motions publicly, so everyone else is having to argue about something that they're just guessing the contents of" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Zack Polanski brands Zionism as racism https://t.co/GjvMlE12sK" / X 

• Peter Tatchell on X: ".@TheGreenParty conference motion demands Israel is replaced by a single Palestinian state This is NOT the policy of Palestinian leaders such as Marwan Barghouti. They support a two-state solution. Greens should not tell Palestinians what to do! Amend the motion! @ZackPolanski https://t.co/myQnezDvq1" / X 

• Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 on X: "'Deep Rooted Green political philosophy' the obvious driver, & not the fact he, by self-admission, identified as a Zionist until recently, supported IHRA while a member of the Jewish Greens etc. The proposed amendment he backs denies Zionism as settler colonialism. Stop coping." / X 

• Richard Osley on X: "Candidates were also asked ‘is Zionism racism?’. All candidates said no it wasn’t … apart from Zack Polanski who answered: ‘I think there’s a problem with definitions… it means different things to different people. If you're defining Zionism as a displacement genocide, which is" / X 

• Daisy Eastlake on X: "🟢 BREAKING: Jewish people who say criticism of the Israeli state is antisemitic are making themselves less safe, says Zack Polanski   At a hustings event at a synagogue in the constituency hosted by the London Jewish Forum and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Polanski," / X 

• (3) BBC Wales News on X: "Welsh Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter diagnosed with cancer https://t.co/CzJ0jOJoNv" / X 

• (2) Paul Holden on X: "Is Zack Polanski the first openly and explicitly anti-Zionist leader of a major political party in the UK? Times are changing. Either way, there is no doubting he has moral courage. It takes guts and principles to go into a room of Zionists (as a Jewish political leader who" / X 

• Polanski heckled by Zionists at Holborn hustings 

• Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 on X: "Green Party of England & Wales activist Matthew Hull is proposing an emergency motion to next week's GPEW conference on the situation in Oleshky. It needs 49 members to co-propose. ONLY SIGN IF YOU ARE A GREEN PARTY MEMBER. Please share / circulate. https://t.co/8n2qVLKYRW" / X 

• (1) The Crispin Flintoff Show on X: "It’s uncanny how Green members other than Zack Polanski have come up with amendments that exactly mirror what he said at the Zeteo event last week. It’s almost as if he’s been talking to other people and working with them. Surely not." / X 

• (3) Emma Schubart on X: "We've reported the Green Party to the Equality Commission for a potential breach of the Equality Act. Their conference schedule seems to list a Muslim-only event. The Green Party now says that the event was listed in error. https://t.co/jYKxAYlnuZ" / X 

• Matt Kennard on X: "Polanski has gone further than every mainstream progressive leader in West: Corbyn, Mamdani, Melenchon Soon enough, they will follow. But he will be remembered for standing up first https://t.co/rksXAenCU9" / X 

• C.Parkinson on X: "@kennardmatt He never said he’s anti-Zionist and someone as sharp and smart as you knows that, so why would you frame it this way? Also, could you enlighten us with the version he was referencing that was ok and has now suddenly become racist?" / X 

• EXCLUSIVE: London Green Party share Insta post branding mainly Jewish audience at election event 'genocide supporters' - Jewish News 

• George Galloway on X: "The election is NOT about “men dressing up” or “Wes Streeting marrying a sailor” if the Green Party hadn’t kept him in parliament as Britain’s War Minister and kept Leanne Mohammed out @M_Star_Online I am with Russia Zack is with NATO. I am with an end to the war in Ukraine Zack" / X 

• Clare Hymer on X: "A good 200+ (?) people out in Holborn and St Pancras this morning to support @ZackPolanski. Lots of optimism about Zack’s chances - but the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion was very much the topic of conversation among members (not on the doorstep, mind) https://t.co/h2272zcKY7" / X 

• Aaron Bastani on X: "It’s strange seeing a party leader, Zack Polanski, fighting a campaign which feels like it lacks a national message. So far, Holborn & St Pancras doesn’t give Gorton & Denton vibes. But the Labour candidate is massively beatable. Under-represented in bookmaker odds." / X 

• Workers Party of Britain on X: "The Whore of Holborn. https://t.co/xB8n0WEOm1" / X 

• Zack Polanski on X: "Huge thank you to everyone who told me today they've got a refund for conference or are going to vote online and join us on the streets campaigning. The energy is amazing and we can win this election. But we need your help. Join us in making history: https://t.co/rl6k2v62lr" / X 

• Piers Corbyn on X: "There were 5 #PiersCorbyn and team helping Friday 25th. #GetGallowayIn campaigns EVERY DAY. MEET 12noon CamdenTown Tube (Open Area /beside Wendy's)" / X 

• George Galloway on X: "The Green Goddess will be familiar to older viewers. It was a fake fire engine deployed by the state to undermine the real firefighters in times of dispute. The Green Party is the same. They take socialists by the hand merely as a prelude to taking us by the throat. They are" / X

•  Motion E02: Zionism is Racism - what’s at stake? 

• Geri Scott on X: "Excl: Zack Polanski’s podcast has made thousands of pounds from Google over the past year despite the Green Party leader supporting a campaign targeting the technology giant over its links to Israel. Bold Politics, the political podcast fronted by Polanski, runs a monetised" / X 

• Times Politics on X: "The Green Party leader, who has supported a campaign against the tech giant over its Israel links, has a monetised channel on its subsidiary, YouTube https://t.co/h78m01eSDR https://t.co/o8P4hg8AXA" / X 

• Adnan Hussain MP on X: "How are the landlord leaders of the green party doing?" / X 

• (1) Calgie on X: "Crikey, Greens say members will be commuting from Brighton to Holborn ‘each evening’ of their conference to campaign in the by-election https://t.co/1OS1isTNC2" / X 

• (18) Daisy Eastlake on X: "🟢 EXCL: Green Party members risk being reported to the party for racism if they belong to “Zionist” synagogues, under plans to be voted on at the party conference this weekend Green members decided against an amendment designed to protect Jewish members attending self-declared" / X 

• greens4palestine.uk/press/zionism-is-racism-why-it-matters-booklet-available 

• YouGov on X: "Ahead of the Green's party conference, we asked Britons to describe Zack Polanski in three words 47% use at least one negative term, many alluding to dishonesty or foolishness 18% use at least one positive term, with "hope" and "caring" among the most common 34% said "don't https://t.co/4Hf5TRKfya" / X 

• Should the Greens be written off in Holborn and St Pancras? 

• THE GREEN SOCIALIST? Russell Warfield Interview - YouTube 

• Noa Hoffman on X: "EXCL: The Green party has produced an Orwellian glossary of ‘unacceptable’ language ahead of its conference this weekend. Its new ‘Inclusive Terminology Guidance’ instructs members to stop using words and phrases including ‘elderly’, ‘female politician’ and ‘mothers and" / X 

• Josh Housden on X: "🚨 Greens and Lib Dems overlap in our polling averages for the first time since October 2025 https://t.co/EMz0MegNdU" / X 

• Alexander Louis Sallons on X: "If the party leadership and staff want to encourage members to sack of the Sunday of conference, they're only going to have themselves to blame if conference votes for things they don't like. Self defeating, anti democratic move if you ask me." / X 

• Novara Media on X: ""There is no fence-sitting on this." Ahead of the motion asking whether Zionism is racism at Green party conference, @ClareHymer spoke to members for and against the proposal. https://t.co/JWdzFNgT8m" / X 

• Who Does the Green Party’s ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Motion Really Serve? | Novara Media 

• Tom Gann on X: "This is a genuinely weird argument. The motion doesn’t commit Green canvassers to abstractly asserting Zionism is Racism on the doorstep. Parties have all kinds of commitments that are argued for and explained not just shouted at people. https://t.co/QYWBoN3W4w" / X 

• (2) YouGov on X: "The Green party has reportedly produced an ‘Inclusive Terminology Guidance’ ahead of its conference, which recommends using the term "global majority" when discussing race Our study last year found that only 34% of ethnic minority Britons had heard of the term before, and just https://t.co/vhI3Klx4zB" / X 

• Reform Political Advertising on X: "We are going to @TheGreenParty conference on Saturday. If you are a supporter or working on the wider challenge of disinformation in our elections and would like to say a quick hello dm us. https://t.co/BlYjFs6rIu" / X 

• (1) Tom Gann on X: "One reason for this is that once the tactic is to say “vote Green to pull Labour to the left, as we’ve been doing”, you have to claim “we’re winning the argument” and that leads to overpraising Burnham on Palestine & nationalisations and ignoring eg. migrant rights." / X 

• (1) Daisy Eastlake on X: "🟢 With @Geri_E_L_Scott Senior Green Party figures privately fear that Zack Polanski could lose the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, amid concerns the party has failed to turn its surge in membership into activists on the doorsteps — and that its leader may have “peaked”" / X 

• (2) Stella Tsantekidou on X: "I'm in @TheCriticMag on the Holborn by-election. I agree with @AaronBastani that the Greens had a real shot at this seat. But they've made strategic and temperamental errors throughout. Labour's problems are a boring campaign and a candidate who runs the council, which locals" / X 

• Noa Hoffman on X: "NEW: Greens for Palestine has issued its activists with a warning ahead of Green conference this weekend: do not get physical with “Zionist/pro-Israel pickets”, “gender-critical” protesters or hostile media. The private guidance tells supporters not to block people, grab their" / X 

• (3) Guido Fawkes on X: "Car crash for Green Party deputy leader @rachelmillward on West Midlands radio: "Errr, do you know? I actually can't. I'm really sorry, I don't have enough detail on the Birmingham bin strike. I haven't got the latest on that. Sorry." https://t.co/NVFPcZBjjK" / X 

• Kevin Schofield on X: "Labour increasingly confident that they'll win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. "The mood is very upbeat," says one party source. Feels like Zack Polanski has a mountain to climb between now and next Thursday." / X 

• (2) Aaron Bastani on X: "If the Greens get within 3000 votes of Labour, in Camden, with a national bounce for the government, that’s an extraordinary accomplishment. Anyone sensible knows as much. This is spin." / X 

• Emine Ibrahim on X: "The moment the Green Party tell people calling their mum “mum” is not allowed then the plot is lost and it’s way too far from being found. https://t.co/NohBLF6ynd" / X 

• Politics UK on X: "🚨 NEW: Senior Green Party figures have conceded that Zack Polanski could lose in Holborn and St Pancras as he’s “peaked” “There’s a scepticism about whether people are going to come to us given Burnham”" / X 

• (1) James Hanson on X: "Prediction: Zack Polanski will lose the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, the Greens will continue to slide in the polls, and he'll quit within a year to become a full-time Owen Jones-style left-wing social media commentator/creator." / X 

• Russell Warfield on X: "If you liked Burnham's speech yesterday, you didn't get any of it without Polanski. It was a pleasure to talk about this to @hugorifkind on @TimesRadio this morning, ahead of Green Party conference and a pivotal parliamentary by-election. https://t.co/f4xu4QYsah" / X 

• Kevin Schofield on X: "Green source hits back: "Labour’s complacency is totally misplaced. Its all to play for. "We’ve been moving in on Labour in the past week, with significant numbers of undecided voters who’d previously voted Labour in 2024 now moving to the Green column."" / X 

• London Councils on X: "Ahead of our upcoming event at Green Party conference, our Green Vice Chair @ZoeGarbett has written for @themjcouk on priorities for tackling the capital's housing crisis. 👇 https://t.co/eECgD5jgj9 https://t.co/Sgmqv4LwXC" / X 

• (1) Guido Fawkes on X: "EXC: Green Activist Campaigning for Polanski in By-Election Was Cautioned After Assaulting Teen https://t.co/ZTHAsX7BoL https://t.co/GOHD9dJYrH" / X 

• (1) BBC Politics on X: "Water system a 'disaster', Green deputy leader says https://t.co/uKuTwlGp8h" / X 

• (1) lee harpin on X: "Exclusive: Green Party launch ‘unprecedented’ conference security op to protect Jewish members from anti-Israel hate mob https://t.co/4t4KoE91tr" / X 

• Rachel Millward on X: "This morning I had a run of 12 consecutive interviews with regional TV & radio stations all over England. Loads of great questions and great to connect with issues facing communities up and down the country - data centres, water companies, buses and roads... In the midst of all https://t.co/3ErU93icoT" / X 

• Find Out Now on X: "Our lowest score for the Greens since Oct 2025, and the lowest we have ever recorded for the Lib Dems 🔴 Labour: 27% (+3) 🟦 Reform UK: 23% (-) 🔵 Conservatives: 17% (-2) 🟢 Greens: 12% (-1) 🟠 Lib Dems: 9% (-3) Changes from 23rd Sept [Find Out Now, 30th Sept, N=2,607] https://t.co/bJUNnBiAOo" / X 

• George Galloway For Holborn and St Pancras on X: "This is inaccurate. Save this tweet. You are dropping @WorkersPartyGB which will at least get 7 to 15% of the vote in worst case scenario." / X 

• Adam Cherry on X: "EXC: Green Activist Campaigning for Polanski in By-Election Was Cautioned After Assaulting Teen The Greens say: "We looked into this previously and no action was assessed to be needed. We have hundreds out everyday [sic] in Holborn and St Pancras and Zack meets people https://t.co/dik6ayPse7" / X 

• Guido Fawkes on X: "In 2018, while still a Labour member, Broadley is alleged to have slapped two teenagers on the backside and shared tales of his “sexual conquests” with them. He was reportedly very drunk. He received a police caution for common assault after one victim complained, and Labour" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Hackney Greens warned manifesto pledge on divestment puts pensions at ‘major’ legal risk https://t.co/KNP1aJejk3 https://t.co/2ilRbkhQv0" / X 

• (2) Birmingham Labour on X: "@rachelmillward are you there? https://t.co/5Ghji9fTzD" / X 

• (2) Bold Politics on X: "Join us for the premiere of The Green Party's Autumn Political Broadcast 👇 https://t.co/o8ox3olHzA https://t.co/Uo8ceoBkn9" / X 

• amunbainsjournalist on X: "The party you used to be a member of? @AdnanHussainMP https://t.co/OraSeOTFN6" / X 

• Green Women's Declaration on X: "Groundhog Day for GWD: The Green Party has banned our stall from Conference again, alleging 'wrongdoing' by our members will make people feel unsafe. It has provided no evidence for this year's ban. That is because there isn't any. https://t.co/meBoad2yP0" / X 

• KeVy B! 🇵🇸 kevyb.bsky.social on X: "I think it's more than a bit suspicious that there's be no direct polling in Holborn & St Pancras. The establishment polling companies seem scared to reveal that it's likely neck & neck between Labour & the Greens, to discourage Green voters coming out to vote. #holborn #backzack" / X 

• The Green Party on X: "Every parent wants to keep their child safe. Clean air. Clean water. A safe home. A liveable planet. That’s the future we’re fighting for. https://t.co/YikxDqCCIA" / X 

• Sky News on X: "Former Green leader Natalie Bennett denies the party is split over a 'Zionism is racism' motion tabled for its conference - but doesn't say how she'll vote on it. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 | @CathyNewman 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/MqsnUMf2hs" / X 

• Richard Osley on X: "Asked Zack Polanski at the start what it meant for him personally if he didn't win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election? 'We're at a time when we've got a new prime minister who is experiencing a honeymoon...' https://t.co/q1ofg5ydmI" / X 

• Aaron Bastani on X: "If the Greens get within 3000 votes of Labour, in Camden, with a national bounce for the government, that’s an extraordinary accomplishment. Anyone sensible knows as much. This is spin." / X 

• Daniel Grigg on X: "Name a Green who'd do better, either in Holborn and St Pancras and nationally, than Zack Polanski. There isn't one." / X 

• The National on X: "Zack Polanski has hailed a 'historic' year for the Greens following the party’s 'extraordinary electoral success' as he says they can 'transform the political landscape' ahead of their biggest ever conference https://t.co/oekQpAbYKT" / X 

• Peter Tatchell on X: ".@TheGreenParty conference motion condemns "Zionism as racism". But there are two types of Zionism: 1) a legitimate liberation movement against antisemitic oppression such as Nazism. 2) a supremacist movement that ethnically cleanses Palestinians. Amend the motion! @ZackPolanski https://t.co/pT89i37jNM" / X

•  Daily Mail on X: "Polanski said his family 'fled the Nazis'. But all four of his grandparents were born in Britain - long before the war https://t.co/QyRpU78Izx" / X 

• Dale Vince on X: "Interesting move from @ZackPolanski, in pursuit of votes in Camden? @UKLabour have clearly moved, with recognition of Palestine by @Keir_Starmer and sanctions by @andyburnham on what @Ed_Miliband calls “terrorist settlers” - maybe this is an upping of the ante in response..? I" / X 

• Philip Proudfoot on X: "It's not about "individual prejudice", but the project of establishing Jewish sovereignty over land already inhabited by another is inherently racist. One population gains rights to immigration, land and self-determination; the other denied based on their race, i.e. racism." / X 

Friday 2 October

• The Green Party on X: "Welcome to Brighton. Green Party Conference has started. https://t.co/AAK0kQJyMN" / X 

• megan kenyon on X: "🟢My piece ahead of Green Party conference for this week’s @NewStatesman Zack Polanski’s year of magical thinking - Greens feeling optimistic about Holborn and St Pancras. Even Polanski critics feel confident. - BUT several of them tell me they think Starmer quit when he did https://t.co/7LYwQaxcBo" / X 

• Jason Groves on X: "Former Green leader Caroline Lucas says the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion being debated at the party’s annual conference is ‘divisive’ and ‘could be seen as a sign that Jewish people are not welcome in the party’" / X 

• Steven Swinford on X: "Former Green leaders have criticised a motion to define Zionism as a form of racism before their party’s conference Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay, former leaders of the party, labelled the motion as “divisive” or “not helpful”, and risked alienating Jewish people from joining" / X 

• Darren Johnson on X: "Party grandee wades in with understatement of the year." / X 

• Kevin Schofield on X: "Labour Increasingly Confident Of Beating Zack Polanski In Crunch By-Election https://t.co/hqlxTDuQmE" / X 

• Aaron Bastani on X: "The Greens will make big inroads in Holborn & St Pancras, a seat where Alastair Campbell, Mandelson & Trevor Phillips live… Ignore the spin: that’s big. But Burnham means they now need a vision for Britain. Antagonistic opposition is no longer enough. https://t.co/YNQu5u9ynn" / X 

• Robert Ford on X: "The latest of my conference season annual performance reviews for @SkyNews has a look at how the Greens have done - has the Polanski bubble burst, or is there still a path to further Green gains in the Burnham era? https://t.co/a5MpHW1GQf" / X 

• Kevin Schofield on X: "Internal Green data seen by HuffPost UK shows the party believes that if it persuades 30% of 2024 Labour voters to switch to them, Polanski will be just 4 points behind. "This is on a knife edge" https://t.co/hqlxTDuQmE" / X 

• Faye Brown on X: "NEW: Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward tells Sky News Mornings that the Zionism is Racism motion is “problematic” in its unamended form and she won’t be voting for it. “The motion in its unamended form is problematic, I think. I certainly wouldn't be voting for that. There are" / X 

• (((Dan Hodges))) on X: ""If we can magically convince a third of our opponents voters to switch to us in the last week we'll still lose" is quite the spin..." / X 

• Axio 🔶 on X: "We went from "the Greens are here to replace Labour" to "well if the Greens only lose to Labour by a little bit that's still an extraordinary accomplishment" remarkably quickly." / X 

• Sky News on X: "The Green Party: Has the Polanski bubble burst? https://t.co/jKLBm7NkGh" / X 

• (1) Aaron Newbury on X: "So far the Green Party conference has more bars than Reform or Labour." / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Caroline Lucas: Passing Zionism is racism motion would be sign Jews aren’t welcome in Green Part https://t.co/kBckoyKDWt" / X 

• Times Politics on X: "Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay, predecessors of Zack Polanski, have said the vote at the party’s conference in Brighton is ‘divisive and not helpful’ https://t.co/z2Eirs13op https://t.co/Lxtgltpx7J" / X 

• Nick Tyrone on X: "So, if the Greens manage to get a whopping 30% of Labour's vote next week, they'll still lose by 4 points. This is a roundabout way of saying they will lose the by-election, according to the Greens' own numbers." / X 

• Novara Media on X: "Green party leader Zack Polanski will set out plans for a three-year emergency brake on rent hikes to give renters “breathing space”. The move would limit rises to whichever is lowest between Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, wage growth or 2% – echoing existing metrics for https://t.co/RY6RrECpwU" / X 

• Steven Swinford on X: "Former Green leaders have criticised a motion to define Zionism as a form of racism before their party’s conference Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay, former leaders of the party, labelled the motion as “divisive” or “not helpful”, and risked alienating Jewish people from joining" / X 

• James Heale on X: "Greens say they now have 220,000 members" / X (Note: For data on Green Membership there is full analysis on the Structures page.

• Daisy Eastlake on X: "🟢Adrian Ramsay tells @thetimes he will join other senior Greens and vote against the motion at the party's conference - joining Caroline Lucas on Today this morning and Rachel Millward on @TimesRadio" / X 

• (2) Guido Fawkes on X: "Worried Greens send to London members: “We are entering the most important seven days our party has ever seen. That is why I have crunched the numbers to share with you first. 10,000+ conversations on the doorstep tell us one thing. Zack can win, but only if you are here" / X 

• (((Dan Hodges))) on X: "This is currently on display at Green Party conference. It may just be me, but it does not appear to project confidence… https://t.co/wva8urmh6V" / X 

• Pippa Crerar on X: "EXCL: Zack Polanski has insisted his authority as leader of the Green party does not depend on winning next week’s Holborn and St Pancras byelection, amid suggestions the party’s popularity has peaked. "It doesn’t depend on it whatsoever," he tells @alethaadu, adding that the" / X 

• (1) Darren Johnson on X: "This is why I don't think Polanski's position will be in the slightest bit under threat when he loses in Holborn & St Pancras. Denial and self-delusion will be the order of the day for a good while to come." / X 

• Politics UK on X: "🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski says he won’t resign as Green Party leader if he loses in Holborn and St Pancras “It doesn’t depend on it whatsoever… I think it’s probably 50-50 right now” [@guardian]" / X 

• (2) BBC News (UK) on X: "Zack Polanski to open Green conference with call for cap on private rent rises https://t.co/HLwT6nDaNO" / X 

• (5) megan kenyon on X: "🟢Zack Polanski is set to speak at 1.30pm this afternoon. He's due to be introduced by Gorton and Denton MP, Hannah Spencer who will note how she felt before her by-election victory in February and urge members to campaign to help Polanski get elected. "I knew we could win. I" / X 

• The New Statesman on X: "ZACK POLANSKI'S YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING By @meganekenyon At around 9pm on Tuesday 22 September, a WhatsApp message pinged into Green Party members’  inboxes. “Cancel your plans!” it ordered – “And that includes conference.” The missive came from the party’s field team for the" / X 

• (2) megan kenyon on X: "🟢 Green Party members are assembling in the hall in Brighton ahead of Zack Polanski’s speech. This is the biggest Green Party conference yet, sources saying 3,000 people are in attendance. Having been in Bournemouth last year, can confirm this is way bigger than last year. https://t.co/fMZ1BGi0y9" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Polanski speaks of Green Party's commitment to "free speech" ... at conference at which a booklet circulated warning delegates not to use some of the most basic words in the dictionary. https://t.co/o0llda5q2B" / X 

• Green Feminists UK on X: "All is not well over at Green Elects. https://t.co/iO6tFoV9Iq" / X 

• (2) Aaron Bastani on X: "Will it be…close?! My despatch for @novaramedia from Holborn & St Pancras in a by-election with HUGE implications. https://t.co/bxInnNE3Ch" / X 

• Steven Swinford on X: "Zack Polanski's central message at the Green Party conference: 'Vote Green and watch Labour move' 'Through our sustained pressure – and our historic wins – we have held the worst instincts of the Labour government in check 'And started to move them in the right direction.'" / X 

• (1) Ridge & Frost on X: "🗣️ "Over this last year, we have set the political agenda that Burnham is now picking up" Deputy leader of the Green Party @rachelmillward disputes the claims that support for the party is in decline as they kick off their conference in Brighton. https://t.co/aoBItDHoso" / X 

• (1) Aaron Bastani on X: "The idea that Polanski should resign if he doesn’t win in the seat where Keir Starmer, Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson all live is quite funny. Reminds me of the ‘Corbyn didn’t bow deeply enough’ years." / X 

• Have the Greens lost all hope? - UnHerd 

• (3) Sabrina Miller on X: "Come join me and follow along this thread as I play things that I’ve found at Green Party conference that left me shooketh https://t.co/6YktcMJSfy" / X 

• (4) Hugo Gye on X: "Zack Polanski tells Green Party conference: "We need to stop governments using the blunt tool of interest rates to control inflation." He adds: "I meet mortgage holders who are constantly worried about renewing. They tell me they crave certainty about the future."" / X 

• Peray Ahmet on X: "We are now in damage limitation mode it seems… Ash and Aaron manage it very well, I give them that." / X 

• Sky News on X: "🗣️ 'We stand with everyone who is under attack.' Zack Polanski tells the Green Party conference that he is 'proud' of MPs for 'standing up for trans people in the corridors of power'. Follow live updates: https://t.co/o56xLOpZhS https://t.co/oomC7n0Gme" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Polanski calls for Palestine Action ban to be revoked but sidesteps discussing Zionism motion https://t.co/tP5ARzEEQZ" / X 

• Lewis Goodall on X: "Round of applause for Tony Benn at the Green Party conference." / X 

• Sienna Rodgers on X: "NEW: The Greens reckon Starmer wouldn’t have resigned without their success. But now they have created a problem – Burnham. How do they deal with it? There is confidence in Labour that Holborn & St P will be a hold. The Greens, meanwhile, insist the seat is winnable for them:" / X 

• (2) James Heale on X: "Love that press have been given bright red lanyards at Green conference to signify DANGER" / X 

• Matt Zarb-Cousin on X: "We’re now in a political landscape where the Green Party is EXPECTED to win the seat of the FORMER LABOUR PRIME MINISTER. I feel like the progress Zack Polanski has made has been totally priced in as normal. It really isn’t. The fact he has even a chance of winning is mental" / X 

• Jack Parker on X: "Green conference gets underway in Brighton today - leader Zack Polanski speaking shortly But the biggest point of debate comes on Sunday - a v controversial motion on whether Zionism is racism This 46-page booklet is being actively handed out as soon as members get through https://t.co/dMA3hNDf3j" / X 

• PoliticsHome on X: "Zack Polanski has urged people to keep voting Green as a way of forcing Labour into more left-wing positions "Vote Green and watch Labour move," he said in his Brighton conference speech on Friday, reports PolHome's @matilda__martin https://t.co/I5EghZySS2" / X 

• Left Field on X: "Zack Polanski accused Labour of half measures and timidity as he told the Greens’ largest ever conference that the party had changed the country and must now be bold. @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski https://t.co/iyPK6KT3rD" / X 

• (1) Turn Left Media on X: "🟩 Zack Polanski’s plans: “Nationalise water. Make energy efficient. Put a break on rents.” “We will not hesitate on taxing extreme wealth”—esp. taxing windfall profits Labour “play politics with our planet… bend to whims of fossil fuel giants” “Keep oil + gas in the ground”" / X 

• (1) Bold Politics on X: "Zack Polanski walks out to speak at a packed out Brighton Centre. What a speech. What a moment. https://t.co/NnGkKTSuk5" / X 

• BBC News (UK) on X: "Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Polanski https://t.co/6wy8LRp0i6" / X 

• James Heale on X: "Greens say they now have 220,000 members" / X 

• The New Statesman on X: "ZACK POLANSKI: THE GREENS CAN CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski only spent a few hours at his second party conference as leader before hopping on the train back to London to campaign in Holborn and St Pancras. The party has encouraged members to do the same. An" / X

•  BBC Politics on X: ""While our councils are delivering in their communities, we fight for change on a national level too" "It is time for a serious plan to build council homes at scale," Zack Polanski tells the Green Party conference Follow live: https://t.co/TcK9ATiHci https://t.co/u3l0BVz5RO" / X 

• Generation Rent on X: "BREAKING: Green Party leader @ZackPolanski has called for a three year “emergency brake”on private rent increases.  A limit on rent increases would be a welcome commitment for the MILLIONS of private renters who desperately need breathing space. https://t.co/EMfIfwt04L" / X 

• BBC London on X: "Rachel Millward sets out Green's pitch to London ➡️ https://t.co/OFYW8kkpPr https://t.co/b19jsJIkhB" / X 

• Times Politics on X: "Our reporter followed the leader of the Green Party on the campaign trail through north London — and found a host of differing opinions https://t.co/mKnAgpzB6A https://t.co/AhinEhjXgO" / X 

• Oz Katerji on X: "A Bennite, a Cleggite and a Cameroon walk into a bar, the bartender asks: “What can I get you Mr Polanski?”" / X 

• Jane on X: "Chants of 'free Palestine' as Zack Polanski says he would deproscribe Palestine Action at Green Party conference. Safe to this this got the crowd more riled up than rent controls, the environment or fighting 'billionaires hoarding wealth' https://t.co/aB7VrRDka1" / X 

• Yanis Varoufakis on X: "To vote for Zack and the Greens in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election is to vote for hope; not for vibes that will, ultimately, help drain hope again." / X 

• (1) Gary Spedding on X: "Everyone needs to read the results of the #JewishGreens survey and properly absorb them. We need a sensible debate on the 'Zionism is Racism' motion and I think Greens 4 Palestine could be doing a LOT better when it comes to advocating for justice & liberation of Palestinians &" / X 

• (1) Tony Burke on X: "@UKLabour projected to hold on to Holborn and St Pancras, projection shows https://t.co/3NTtmqJZDs via @leftfootfwd" / X 

• YouGov on X: "Zack Polanski has called for a 3-year brake on private rent increases, restricted to the lowest of inflation, wage growth, or 2% - a move that 65% of Britons support https://t.co/FaGXhvzJIj https://t.co/1rondZeTWr" / X 

• megan kenyon on X: "🟢My snap take on Zack Polanski's speech at GPC. Hard to argue with his case that the Greens have held Labour to account from the left on issues such as Gaza and oil and gas. A strong start for him at a conference he only attended for a few hours (he has already gone back to" / X 

• Darren Johnson on X: "Not seen Zack Polanski's speech but that conference backdrop reminds me of the studio set from any number of kid's TV programmes of the 1970s. https://t.co/sWveke1QaC" / X 

• Sanjush Dalmia on X: "I'm convinced that Your Party was very good for the Greens, and its collapse has damaged them. YP briefly attracted the inward-looking purity-testers who wanted a social club for self-expression, allowing the Greens to seem like an outward-looking left-wing political party" / X 

• BBC Politics on X: ""We are the party that wants to tax the very richest, bring our public services back into public hands and end rip off Britain," Green Party leader Zack Polanski says "We are sure about who we stand up for," he adds Follow live: https://t.co/TcK9ATiHci https://t.co/Di75DcVHfB" / X 

• Jane on X: "There have been attempts to get senior Greens to speak against 'Zionism is Racism' motion for months. Caroline Lucas, Adrian Ramsay & Rachel Millward now oppose the motion but have they left it too late to stop a motion that will give the Greens 'an overtly antisemitic platform'?" / X 

• Senior Greens distance themselves from Zionism is Racism motion - The Jewish Chronicle 

• Elliot Tong on X: "Today, I’ve resigned from @TheGreenParty, as well as the Green Group on both the city and county council. I entered politics because I wanted to stand up for what’s right. I no longer feel that the Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Green Party will allow me to do this. https://t.co/wFG8SLRK53" / X 

• Farrukh on X: "Zack Polanski slams Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's attack on non violent protest, and Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband's indifference to it. "As Ed Miliband spoke people were being hauled away by the police, their crime? Holding up signs" "The sight of pensioners being put in https://t.co/WzQ0k5E1Ls" / X 

• Jamie Susskind on X: "Not everyone will know this, so an obvious point: being a fierce critic of Israel doesn’t make you an anti-Zionist. Anti-Zionism amounts to the extremist believe that Israel as constituted should not exist at all - which in reality means the death or forced displacement of its" / X 

• BBC Radio 4 Today on X: "A motion which calls Zionism to be treated as racism is likely to be debated at the Green Party of England and Wales' conference this weekend. Deputy leader Rachel Millward tells @JustinOnWeb the motion as it currently stands is "problematic". #R4Today https://t.co/uLfywW8Rpg" / X 

• (2) Times Radio on X: "The Green Party need to keep their “momentum up” into the next elections to continue chipping away at Labour’s left flank, says Ollie Cole. “There is a real battle in places where the Greens were making gains earlier this year.” @producerollie | #TimesRadio https://t.co/sBqrjR48oQ" / X 

• John Rentoul on X: "Polanski once hoped to replace Labour. Where has it all gone wrong for the Greens? https://t.co/gaqr02Z6uY" / X 

• Daniel Sugarman on X: "Notable that in the space of 13 months Polanski has gone from "My message to Labour is very clear: we are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We are here to replace you" to...this" / X 

• Sarah Hayward on X: "Interesting Greens are to ripping off Camden Council's magazine branding. Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Am left questioning the carbon footprint of the barrage of Green leaflets I'm getting. Very glossy heavy weight paper. Wasted on my v Labour branded house. https://t.co/KKd0giofPF" / X 

• BBC Politics on X: ""Today we are calling on this government to put in place a three-year emergency brake on private rents," Zack Polanski says Follow live: https://t.co/TcK9ATiHci https://t.co/WOjro6nXaj" / X 

• The News Agents on X: "“Your motion, it could be argued, is very crude and very blunt - and will only seek to further alienate and polarise.” The News Agents clash with group who want the Greens to classify Zionism as racism. @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall https://t.co/bnI3XXxcAc" / X 

• (8) The News Agents on X: ""The Green Party conference is set to be dominated by Corbyn-era motions around Gaza, Zionism, Palestine. "These are dividing this party and risks, on some level, tearing it apart." Have the Greens got lost in 'fractious' politics? https://t.co/h59VNIHPx1" / X 

• (8) Guido Fawkes on X: "Ex-Green Party Leaders Slam Motion to Define Zionism as Racism https://t.co/wt6g08Swpw https://t.co/c5C8ml3Cum" / X 

• James Heale on X: "The four words Polanski could not say: Holborn and St Pancras. His speech was almost entirely directed at the thirty-something urban grads he needs to win next Thursday. But it came at the expense of a shrewder pitch which set Burnham up for failure: https://t.co/3pmPTJvVxs" / X 

• Nation.Cymru on X: "Welsh Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter has said his recovery from cancer surgery is going well as he thanked well-wishers in a message to the party’s conference https://t.co/lXo4uaDz2m" / X 

• The News Agents on X: ""We joke about our kids living at home until they're 30-35, but it's not funny" Deputy Green leader Rachel Millward backs a three-year “emergency brake” on private rent increases. But will landlord Green MPs stick this themselves? @Lewis_Goodall https://t.co/73AT1niKvO" / X 

• Channel 4 News on X: "Green Party Leader Zack Polanski says it “would be silly” to rule out a coalition with the Labour Party at the next general election. Speaking to Channel 4 News at his party’s conference in Brighton, he says, “if a Labour government were ready to make the serious change that we https://t.co/FGM03WKyQP" / X 

• Paul Scully on X: "I spent the afternoon at @gbnews listening to Zack Polanski's speech. Since I had to go through that, I'll have to offload my two penneth. First rent control. Things have already tipped against small landlords too far. Rent control will kill supply. It hasn't worked anywhere..." / X 

• Times Politics on X: "Beyond the laughably right-on stalls and controversial motions, the Green Party conference featured a leader who may be more formidable than his rivals realise https://t.co/jn5wtW4rMD https://t.co/FbJUAMhhYJ" / X 

• BBC Politics on X: ""We say no, no more fossil fuel extraction and a clean energy revolution now," Zack Polanski demands "At general elections the government changes, but between general elections, we change the government," he adds Follow live: https://t.co/TcK9ATiHci https://t.co/VE2PrIZR1d" / X 

• The National on X: "Professor Sir John Curtice has offered his view on whether Zack Polanski can win the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election https://t.co/M7nKmGpBbD" / X 

• The National on X: "Professor Sir John Curtice has offered his view on whether Zack Polanski can win the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election https://t.co/M7nKmGpBbD" / X 

• (4) Pieter Snepvangers on X: "EXC: Zack Polanski asked another candidate to run in his place in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Polanski twice attempted to convince Andrew Feinstein to run for the Greens, The Telegraph has been told. Feinstein stood as an independent in 2024 against Keir Starmer" / X 

• George Galloway on X: "Oh dear. Oh very dear…" / X 

• Morning Star on X: "Vote Green to push Labour left, says Polanski as rent controls and Palestine Action policy unveiled https://t.co/3TWSogPaaX" / X 

• Helen Nettleship on X: "Is Kimchi Croissant one of the Green Party’s MPs?" / X 

• Joshua Garfield on X: "Green proposer of the “Zionism is racism” motion reveals that he’s a zionist by agreeing to the principle that the Jewish people should have a homeland. https://t.co/XaoyUdCbxA" / X 

• John Crace on X: "https://t.co/at1mj6mUP6" / X 

• At Brighton, Polanski raised his arms in triumph. It felt more like a wave goodbye | John Crace | The Guardian 

Saturday 3 October

• megan kenyon on X: "🟢 Speaking at a panel event hosted by Compass on How the Greens can beat Reform, Adrian Ramsay - who won a seat from the Tories at the last GE- says a big question for the party before the next election will be its strategy on which seats to fight and target. Will it focus on" / X 

• Adam Ramsay on X: "Before Zack’s leadership, Greens had never come close to being considered serious contenders in a by-election. The fact that this is even being discussed is mad." / X 

• Faye Brown on X: "NEW: Neal Lawson, Director of the left wing compass think tank, says his ‘Council for the progressive majority’ will launch by the end of the year. He said it will bring together Labour, Greens & Lib Dem figures to discuss an overarching strategy to keep out the right at the" / X 

• ForgottenGenius on X: "Who should be the next leader of the Green Party?" / X 

• Mirror Politics on X: "Zack Polanski hails seismic year - but awkward polls suggest Green Party bubble has burst https://t.co/DNbsjdAqBm" / X 

• (2) megan kenyon on X: "🟢The Greens are using day 2 of their conference to take Labour on on another issue: water. Dep leader, Rachel Millward will announce later today in her speech to members, Green Plans to bring failing water companies into public ownership through special administration. She" / X 

• Turn Left Media on X: "🟩 @MothinAli, a man who knows how to make an entrance, arrived on stage for his conference speech accompanied by his own private drummer! https://t.co/MlZndP1sWB" / X 

• Adam Ramsay on X: "Burnham’s democratic reform proposals aren’t nearly enough - and some will make things worse: https://t.co/YjzNBGWpr4 - by me https://t.co/vYXz1ULBci" / X 

• Zack Polanski on X: "Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you! https://t.co/tmNHj6E2ar" / X 

• (1) lee harpin on X: "Down at Green Party conference and immediately bumped into Mr Secker, once of Labour a/s row days, with this bunch https://t.co/2xokuefJJb" / X 

• Turn Left Media on X: "🟩 Green Party Co-Deputy Leader @MothinAli has a message for @SuellaBraverman: “I’m brown, I’m Muslim, but I’m as English as a Yorkshire cup of tea!” https://t.co/tUqYGdwAzO" / X 

• megan kenyon on X: "🟢 The controversial ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion is set to be voted on by Green Party members on Sunday morning. I spoke to Jewish Green Party members to get a sense of how they are feeling ahead of tomorrow’s consequential vote. My report for @NewStatesman" / X 

• Ben Riley-Smith on X: "Interesting. Polanski says he can stay Greens leader if he loses the by-election next week, calls it “50-50”, argues there are advantages to being a leader outside Westminster. Doesn’t sound like the rhetoric of an MP candidate confident of victory. Interview with @alethaadu." / X 

• Emil 🦇 on X: "So when Zack Polanski loses he will blame it on Andrew Feinstein not wanting to stand haha It’s funny to see operation “Save Zack’s Leadership” unfold because they know how cooked they are" / X 

• Deborah Lesurf on X: "Huh? No Green leader ever stood down before if they failed to win a seat. Zack's been great for the party, vastly increasing its membership and visibility. Why would we want him to be a casualty of his own success?" / X 

• Curtis Daly on X: "Being at conference, it hasn't actually been dominated by this motion - but the media has been obsessed with only talking about this." / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Scenes outside Green Party conference as pro Israel and pro Palestine activists congregate outside Brighton Centre https://t.co/Tx2Bg4hGwT" / X 

• Mirror Politics on X: "'Declare national emergency on racism' demand as senior Green blasts Suella Braverman https://t.co/IOYjzc4EPG" / X 

• Greens4Palestine on X: "Greens for Palestine Committee Elections slate! We recommend you vote for the following candidates Head here to vote: https://t.co/IAtikrTVJj Voting opens at 1pm today and closes tomorrow (4th October), so no time to waste. Head over there now! https://t.co/2c0kwKkkLN" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Spent 10 mins observing these lot and it’s enough. Grassroots activists on either side doing each others cause more harm than good. Telling UK based Jews they are “baby killers” is vile. As is telling UK Palestinian activists to “go back home to where you belong.” https://t.co/fTFOG6DdD9" / X 

• Andrew Clark on X: "My timeline is filling up with Greens explaining to me that defeat will actually still be a victory for Polanski" / X 

• (2) Aaron Bastani on X: "I’m quite fair here I think! Not a bad eye for watches, even if I’m blind as a bat! Important point tho: Greens could easily bash (whatever you think about it) a successful, coded as affluent, South east guy. Not happening in Holborn, which is a problem for them." / X 

• Turn Left Media on X: "🟩 Green Party Co-Deputy Leader @rachelmillward has announced the Greens would bring South East Water and Thames Water back into public ownership - at no cost to the tax payer! https://t.co/qXqUA8iEvA" / X 

• (1) Genevieve Holl-Allen on X: "Pleased to report that all 3 sandwich options at this Green Party fringe are vegan No cheese sandwiches, but you can have one with red pepper hummus, artichoke, aubergine & radicchio They do also serve chips & tea/ coffee w normal milk as well as oat https://t.co/sd9YNTPJI6" / X 

• Zack Polanski on X: "Rent controls are popular. They're common sense. And they're the only way to tackle the scandal of rip-off rents. Only the Green Party will fight to bring down the cost of rents and make housing affordable for everyone." / X 

• Colin the Dachshund on X: ""Fermented vegetables in a croissant? Who's bloody idea was that?" https://t.co/O2pdRz4Y6g" / X 

• Harriet Lamb on X: "It is Day 2 of our biggest ever Party conference - and our fantastic Deputy leaders are inspiring the thousands of members gathered here and renewing their determination to change this country. https://t.co/ScLs3QFUmr" / X 

• Novara Media on X: "Dylan Law became the Greens' deputy mayor of Hackney in May when he was just 20-years-old. But like all of his friends, he still lives at home with his parents. At the Green party conference in Brighton, he told Novara Media's @ClareHymer that the cost of renting in London is https://t.co/IF7fyVyO9j" / X 

• Dominic Penna on X: "*EXCLUSIVE with @pietersnep* Trans people have better rights in Iran than Britain, Green activists have claimed https://t.co/5XYq8uhbWW" / X 

• Ash Sarkar on X: "Pro-Israel protestors outside the Green Party make up for what they lack in numbers with a certain terrier-like tenacity. One gentleman caught my eye and barked "Do you want a fight? Is that what you want!?". I mean no, not really!" / X 

• (1) lee harpin on X: "It’s not all Israel-Palestine at Green Party conf. Really good turn out for excellent fringe on UK housing crisis https://t.co/G1Z6SIY9aY" / X 

• The Electronic Uprising on X: "BREAKING Over 760 Green Party members are being told how to vote at Green Party conference in a WhatsApp group. Is this really democracy? https://t.co/GhCdaUVugU" / X 

• Jenny Jones on X: "Oddly sympathetic by @Telegraph " ... if the Greens are searching for clean energy, they could do worse than hook her up to the National Grid – perhaps on some sort of hamster wheel." https://t.co/ECUF9Y7SKT" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Not big drinkers these Greens, it seems. Saturday afternoon and the bar in main conference hall is near empty. I’m told it got slightly better post 5pm yesterday https://t.co/NvUYFmXWrB" / X 

• Geoffrey Lean on X: "Former Green voters in Holborn and St Pancras are considering not voting for Zack Polanski because his party has “forgotten” about climate change. https://t.co/gdocDlAsuq" / X 

• (2) Hugo Gye on X: "Zack Polanski tells Green Party conference: "We need to stop governments using the blunt tool of interest rates to control inflation." He adds: "I meet mortgage holders who are constantly worried about renewing. They tell me they crave certainty about the future."" / X 

• Times Radio on X: "Greens attending the party conference in Brighton are being told to go to Holborn & St Pancras to campaign for Zack Polanski ahead of the by-election, reports Ollie Cole. @ProducerOllie https://t.co/LuXpK1lmPQ" / X 

• Rachel Millward on X: "Greens have set the political agenda this year, and we'll continue to push Labour to cut people's bills and protect our planet. Here's me speaking to the News Agents about the Green Party's influence on Labour over the past year. https://t.co/Zzcr1xE6W8" / X 

• Left Foot Forward on X: "The Green Party has a new health policy https://t.co/sfAFJ0OVXT" / X 

• Harriet Lamb on X: "Two big, badly needed announcements by our fantastic deputy leaders at an exciting conference today - on jobs and on taking water companies into public ownership. @MothinAli @rachelmillward https://t.co/1PTyugwraX" / X 

• (1) Colin the Dachshund on X: ""I thought planting trees was good for the environment and would help the planet breath?" "Planting trees is a form of ethnic cleansing, Judith." ....."We'll take an ocelot spleen, a kimchi croissant, and 4 cans of Gaza cola" https://t.co/Ta50xS0Ext" / X 

• The Green Party on X: "“I'm brown. I’m a Muslim. But I’m as English as a Yorkshire cup of tea.” Mothin Ali on belonging, diversity and building a country confident enough to live with difference. https://t.co/o5rBINzKM3" / X 

• Sabrina Miller on X: "Tensions mounting outside Green Party conference between Zionist and anti Zionist protesters https://t.co/Hth8H9vfLN" / X 

• Liam Holman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on X: "Polanski was his own second choice 😭" / X 

• Joshua Garfield on X: "“To brand everyone under that one umbrella as a racist shows a deep ignorance of what the word Zionism means and the sheer range of people who identify with it.” @Freedland spot on as ever. https://t.co/wFalPZZ2hP" / X 

• Greens4Palestine on X: "This is what it’s like for Palestinians entering Green Party conference today. We won’t back down. Zionism is Racism. @kieran_andrieu https://t.co/Q11N2op90v" / X 

• Dominic Penna on X: "*EXCLUSIVE* Zack Polanski has accused the Israeli military of staging “false flag” attacks https://t.co/pb3436di73" / X 

• Left Foot Forward on X: "Sir John Curtice told LFF it has become "quite a substantial challenge" for the Greens to win in Holborn and St Pancras https://t.co/HZNPPEJh7p" / X 

• Darren Johnson on X: "The name and branding is the same and the odd familar face from the old days seems to pop up now and again but it seems such a wholly different organisation, I simply can't equate it with the outfit I was once an elected representative of for 16 years. https://t.co/luIokV8uv4" / X 

• The Green Party on X: "We see our power, and we are using it" Hannah Spencer MP https://t.co/jOASP9vksj" / X 

• (1) megan kenyon on X: "At @Moreincommon_’s state of the party event at Green Party conference, Luke Tryl says the Greens surge is mostly over, for now… One of the reasons for this is an uptick in Zack Polanski’s unpopularity - however - he still remains popular with his core supporters. According to https://t.co/kQyYKLi2N6" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Greens deputy leader Mothin Ali appeared alongside Ismail Patel,founder of the Friends of Al Aqsa group, who has repeatedly denier supporting Hamas. Answering a ludicrous question from a Green Party member suggesting a united front of Israel and big business was targeting Zack https://t.co/18sPQ5k6ol" / X 

• Have I Got News For You on X: "Green Party members have been advised to avoid mental health labels like ‘lunatic’ or ‘nutter’, forcing them to get creative when describing Zack Polanski. https://t.co/I1H6JAD69w" / X 

• megan kenyon on X: "Speaking at a More in Common’s fringe event/responding to a question on building up party capacity, Green Party CEO Harriet Lamb describes the party as a “40 year old start-up”. She suggests that work is going on to develop the way the Green Party makes policy in light of its" / X 

• Genevieve Holl-Allen on X: "🟢EXCL: A Green-led London council in central London is to become the first to trial a four-day week in the capital Lambeth council leader Martin Abrams said the local authority is "pushing ahead" with a pilot of a shorter week for its employees The Green Party mayors of" / X 

• lee harpin on X: "Multiple sources at Green Party conference claim Mothin Ali planning to exploit split over Zionism-racism motion to topple Zack Polanski. The deputy leader confirms his support for the racist motion. Asked by the BBC about leadership ambitions he claims “Zack’s my leader, and he https://t.co/EHzKVsSZbn" / X 

• Dan Hind on X: "Today the Green Party adopted BBC mutualisation as party policy. Massive credit to the members who managed the herculean task of writing a whole new policy chapter on culture, media and sport, and did so for the love of the game. The relevant section reads in part: https://t.co/nG1JNOqeLq" / X 

• (2) Axio 🔶 on X: "Remember in primary school when you had school council elections and there was always that one kid who promised to ban homework and make every Friday a half day? The Green Party are the political equivalent of that." / X 

• Luke Tryl on X: "🧵Earlier today at Green conference we looked at where the party stand in the polls, and where the party might go next as Burnham woos back disillusioned progressives https://t.co/wbVeMVz6vV" / X 

• (2) lee harpin on X: "Background to this: Mothin Ali responds to ludicrous claim from Green in audience that his party being targeted by united force of Israel, business and media, by singling out me." / X 

• Rabbi Charley on X: "Ahead of a vote at the Green Conference tomorrow, I’ve written about why this motion does the opposite of what it claims to do. In the name of opposing racism, it erases Jewish history, defines Jewish identity from the outside and brands much of Jewish life as racist. That is" / X 

• Gary Spedding on X: "@RabCharley Respectfully, I disagree. I would really encourage you to engage directly with the zionist, anti-Zionist and non-Zionist members of Jewish Greens. This isn't about telling Jews what or how to think. Its about saying if you subscribe to an ideology and political project that is" / X 

Internal Elections

• 2026 Internal Elections - Green Party

• 2026 Spring Conference Elections 

• Past Elections are on the Structures page.

• Greens4Palestine on X: "Greens for Palestine Committee Elections slate! We recommend you vote for the following candidates Head here to vote: https://t.co/IAtikrTVJj Voting opens at 1pm today and closes tomorrow (4th October), so no time to waste. Head over there now! https://t.co/2c0kwKkkLN" / X