Zack Polanski, the current Green Party leader, and former leader Caroline Lucas urged their party to engage with the motivations of Reform UK voters. Only by doing so can the growing inequality in Britain be addressed, they said on Saturday at a conference organized by the left-leaning Compass group in east London.
Polanski stressed that there is an important distinction between the leadership of Reform UK around Nigel Farage and the people who vote for the party. “Nigel Farage, the Reform MPs, the people who speak for them, are very different from those who are considering voting Reform,” Polanski said. “They are exactly the people we need to care about.” The cost-of-living crisis is driving many voters to Farage’s party, the Green leadership said.
Polanski, who had previously said he would welcome Reform voters into his party, accused politicians of neglecting these people for years. “When we say people feel left behind — they don’t just feel left behind, they have been left behind, by decades of austerity and by successive governments,” Polanski said. Current polls put Reform UK at 27 percent, which could pave the way for Farage to become prime minister.
EuroPulse reported on May 25, 2026, about Farage’s unsubstantiated claim that Russian hackers had interfered in British elections (link).
Source: www.theguardian.com
