The Green Party has overtaken Labour for the first time in the wake of its Gorton and Denton by-election victory last week as the party became the most popular among all under-50s. The Telegraph has more.
A YouGov poll put Zack Polanski’s party on 21% – up four points in a week.
The Greens were just two points off Reform UK, with Nigel Farage’s party falling one point to 23% in YouGov’s weekly voting intention poll.
Labour and the Tories were tied on 16%, both down two points, while the Liberal Democrats remained at 14%.
The pollster, which sampled around 2,000 adults on March 1st and 2nd, said it had never recorded a lower score for Labour in its 26-year history.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party lost control of what had been a safe seat in Gorton and Denton, slumping to third behind the Greens and Reform. Hannah Spencer became the Greens’ fifth MP and first in the north of England with a 4,402 majority.
Polanski said Labour had entered an “existential crisis” and no longer had a “stranglehold” on areas such as Greater Manchester.
He said that while only a few months ago he felt 30 Green MPs could be voted in at he next general election, he now believed 50 was an “unambitious” target and that this could rise further.
In the aftermath of the result, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, urged Labour not to try and “out-Green the Greens” and warned that a move further to the Left would alienate too many voters. Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, said the party needed to “listen and reflect”.
Worth reading in full.
Sky News highlights that the Greens are “now the most popular party in all age categories under 50. Some 49% of 18-24 year olds would back the Greens, as well as 27% of 25 to 49-year-olds – the top choice.”
Of those who voted Labour in 2024, “just 37% would vote Labour again, 25% would now vote Green, 8% Lib Dem and 20% don’t know, would not vote or refused to say”.
A quick recap of Green policies. The party wants to:
- Give illegal migrants a free house and access to the NHS while paying them a wage with no requirement to work but permission to take up employment “with no restrictions” under plans for “a world without borders”.
- Legalise drugs including crack cocaine, heroin and date-rape drug GHB, making the latter available for use in pubs and clubs.
- Legalise prostitution and end all restrictions on porn except those aimed at protecting children.
- Bring in gender self-ID.
- Introduce a universal basic income, sending the welfare bill into the stratosphere.
Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali declared his 2024 local election victory a “win for the people of Gaza” and celebrated with “Allahu Akbar!” Last week he was pictured attending a rally in support of the Iranian regime – though Zack Polanksi has said Ali was only there to call for peace and any criticism of this is “Islamophobic”. After October 7th, Ali defended the right of “indigenous people to fight back” (presumably not meaning white Brits), while on the day of the attack he wrote on X: “White supremacist European settler colonialism must end.” Ali along with Polanski has backed a Green Party motion to class Zionism as a form of racism, while a spin doctor recently hired by Polanski denies women were raped in the October 7th attack. In the by-election campaign, campaign materials released in Urdu invited voters to “punish Labour for Gaza”.
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List of countries that can vote in UK elections
Plus: Examples of politicians/ institutions encouraging international voters
CHARLOTTE GILL
To vote, as outlined by the UKCISA, someone must “be a British citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, or a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, and be resident at an address in the UK.”
This includes international students, many of which are subsidised by the taxpayer via the UK Research and Innovation:
“The definition of a ‘Commonwealth’ citizen includes citizens of British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories. A ‘qualifying’ Commonwealth citizen is someone who has to enter or remain in the UK, or who doesn’t require that leave.”
Commonwealth countries:
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Canada
Cyprus
Dominica
Fiji Islands
Gabon
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kingdom of Eswatini
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Rwanda
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent & The Grenadines
The Bahamas
The Gambia
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe
*Although also EU member states, citizens of Cyprus and Malta are eligible to be registered to vote in elections held in the UK.
*Citizens of Zimbabwe retain their voting rights despite the country having been suspended from the Commonwealth.
British Overseas Territories
Anguilla
Bermuda
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Falkland
Montserrat
Pitcairn Island
St Helena and dependencies (Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Sovereign base areas on Cyprus
Turks and Caicos Islands
Hong Kong
Former residents of Hong Kong who hold a British Overseas Territories, British Nationals (Overseas) or British Overseas passport qualify for registration.
Examples of politicians/ institutions encouraging international voters:
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