The new leader of the Green Party has revealed he spoke to Jeremy Corbyn this week amid suggestions there could be a pact between their two parties.

Zack Polanski , who comfortably beat his rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to win the Green Party's leadership election, told the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge that he spoke to the former Labour leader on Monday.

There have been suggestions that the Greens could join forces with Mr Corbyn's new party - which does not yet have a formal name - to avoid splitting the vote on the left.

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The question of a future potential pact with Mr Corbyn and his co-leader, the independent MP Zarah Sultana, became an issue in the Green Party's leadership election, with Mr Polanski mo

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