The Green party will name its next leader on Tuesday after a fiercely fought contest that exposed tensions over tone, strategy and national ambition. Zack Polanski leads as a bold communicator promising to turn rising support into a mass movement. Joint candidates Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay present a steadier, targeted route to growth. The contest raised a wider question about scaling from insurgent force to electoral contender without splintering. Insiders describe the race as unusually fractious but partly overstated. Polanski rejected claims of a hostile takeover, pointing to thousands of new members as success and expressing willingness to stand for a London seat if an opportunity arises.
The Green party will name its next leader on Tuesday after a fiercely fought leadership contest that has exposed tensions over tone, strategy and the party's ambitions on the national stage. The frontrunner, Zack Polanski, has pitched himself as a bold communicator able to turn rising support into a mass movement. He is facing the joint candidates Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, two impactful Green MPs elected last year who are seen as offering a steadier, more targeted route to growth.
But even before a new leader is named the race has raised a bigger question: can the Greens scale up from being an insurgent force to electoral contender without splintering along the way? Insiders admit the race has been unusually fractious, more so than past contests and slightly overstated. But in a party known for pluralism, a reckoning has been forced over how the Greens balance radical energy with electoral discipline.
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