Zack Polanski loses his byelection bid – and the Green party’s Zionism motion has outraged its closest allies in Europe

By Charles Lees, Executive Dean, City St George's, University of London

It has been a rollercoaster year for the Green Party of England and Wales. It’s little more than 12 months since the election of the charismatic Zack Polanski as party leader. And months later, the equally charismatic Hannah Spencer became the Greens’ fifth MP. But Polanski couldn’t repeat this win in Keir Starmer’s former constituency of Holborn and St Pancras in London, losing to Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali.

Back in February, when Spencer won the Greater Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton,…

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