"UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he grilled Reform's Zia Yusuf on BBC Question Time, along with making several other well-received points, which have since gone viral on social media. Zack Polanski, who was elected leader of the England and Wales Greens in a landslide victory at the start of September after campaigning on a pro-trans, eco-populism platform, appeared on the flagship debate show on Thursday (9 October)."
"Question Time opened with a discussion about Conservative MP Robert Jenrick's controversial comments that Hansworth in Birmingham is "one of the worst-integrated places" he had ever been to and that during the hour-and-half hours he spent in the area he did not see "another white face"."
"Jenrick defended his comments in an interview with the BBC this week, stating: "There are numerous parts of our country now where the same story is happening, and at the extreme levels, a lack of integration leads us into a very dark place as a country."
"In response to an audience member voicing his disgust at Jenrick's comments, Polanski said he is "right to be angry" and that we "should all be angry when we had 14 years of Conservative austerity" which saw many local services cut including libraries and community centres"
Zack Polanski was elected leader of the England and Wales Greens in a landslide at the start of September after campaigning on a pro-trans, eco-populism platform. He appeared on BBC Question Time in Shrewsbury on 9 October on a panel including Reform UK's Zia Yusuf, chief secretary to the Treasury James Murray, shadow culture secretary Nigel Huddleston and columnist Annabel Denham, with Fiona Bruce hosting. Viewers praised his performance as a breath of fresh air and for speaking common sense while linking inequalities to political choices. Polanski rejected immigration as the cause of austerity, blamed 14 years of Conservative austerity for cuts to libraries and community centres, and urged public anger about those cuts.
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