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Exclusive: Green Party Leader Zack Polanski On Why 2026 Will Be The Year Of Hope

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24.12.2025

Green Party leader Zack Polanski

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I have only been leader of the Green Party since September and it’s been busy! I have given hundreds of interviews and been travelling around the country. This means I’ve answered lots of questions to both national and local journalists.

However, my answers to these questions, though important, are not what I believe has made the enormous impact we have seen in the past few months. It is about hope. While the other parties trade blows, their message is one fundamentally of there is nothing you can do to change the world we live in. If you try, frankly, you’re “nuts” – as Sir Keir Starmer put it.

Make hope normal again has........

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