Can Zack Polanski control the Green Party?
Polanski faces critics within his own party as well as calls for a rule change.
Today, we look at critical voices from within Green leader Zack Polanski’s own party, plus calls for a rule change on how the party decides policy.
Last week a motion that declared Zionism a form of racism was voted on and became policy. Debate over the motion and it’s fallout dominated a week in which he may have preferred to have been focussing on campaigning in Holborn and St Pancras, where he came second to Labour in a by-election.
It means Andy Burnham’s first electoral victory as PM was in London. We use that fact as an excuse to look at his relationship with the capital, and the politics of it. London Centric’s Jim Waterson joins Victoria and Paddy for that. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker.
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