In the midst of a leadership election, the Green Party is facing an ideological reckoning.

Voting opened for members on 1 August, pitting current co-leader Adrian Ramsay and his new running mate Ellie Chowns against "insurgent candidate" Zack Polanski , said Channel 4 News . Polanski, the "gay, Jewish, London Assembly member from Manchester", is "standing on an eco-populist platform, promising to out-Farage Nigel Farage ". But Ramsay and Chowns are worried his "new direction" will narrow the appeal of the Greens to just the progressive left.

What did the commentators say?

With Labour moving "rightward" to tackle the "ongoing threat" of Reform UK , the government is "more exposed on its left flank", said Megan Kenyon in The New Statesman . In this "moment of flux" for Bri

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