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Green party 黨魁在社群媒體上轉發了一則貼文，內容似乎顯示警員在 Golders Green 襲擊案中踢向嫌疑人的頭部。 完整報導：Met chief 表示 Zack Polanski 對 Golders Green 襲擊案逮捕行動的批評將產生「寒蟬效應」。 早安，歡迎來到我們的 UK politics 部落格。 Met police 廳長 Mark Rowley 在針對警員逮捕 Golders Green 襲擊案嫌疑人的方式向 Zack Polanski 發表公開信後，否認自己「干預政治」。 繼續閱讀...

Mark Rowley 為週三事件中逮捕嫌疑犯的警員辯護，並呼籲 Green party 領袖展現團結。Metropolitan police 首長表示，Green party 領袖 Zack Polanski 分享一則關於 Golders Green 恐怖襲擊嫌疑犯被捕的貼文將產生「寒蟬效應」。Met 警員在週三於 London 西北郊區發生兩名猶太人遭刺傷事件後，逮捕了一名 45 歲男子。警方表示，該名嫌疑犯被以電擊槍擊中以將其制伏。繼續閱讀...

Green party leader accuses Keir Starmer of ‘silly games’ in accusing his party of playing down hate crimesZack Polanski has called on politicians to treat antisemitism with “consideration, care and nuance” as he accused Keir Starmer of trying to play political games with the issue.The Green leader’s comments come after the prime minister accused him of playing down recent antisemitic incidents. Polanski’s party is facing increasing scrutiny for recent comments by some candidates and members. Continue reading...

Leader understood to have spoken to 10 trade unions after party claimed working class voters are turning to themZack Polanski has kicked off a charm offensive designed to convince trade unions to stop funding Labour and throw their weight behind the Green party, as he delivered the first in a series of speeches to union conferences.The Green leader has had “good conversations” with 10 trade unions, including some affiliated to Labour, according to party sources, and is due to address the University and College Union and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, not affiliated with Labour, in the coming months. Continue reading...

Offer to reform taxes, tackle ‘rip-off Britain’ and overhaul fiscal rules could tempt exasperated Labour supportersZack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing insteadThe venue for Zack Polanski’s economic speech on Wednesday – a sunny north London garden centre – could hardly have been more different to the sombre City backdrop for Rachel Reeves’s Mais lecture on Tuesday.The chancellor was, as it happens, the last politician to give a major economic speech at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the leftwing thinktank that invited the Green party leader, Polanski, to set out his stall as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. Back in 2018 it hosted the speech in which, as a backbencher, Reeves called for an “everyday economics” that would prioritise the needs of low-paid workers. Continue reading...

Leader uses first major economic speech to prioritise public services and reduction of inequality over growthA government led by the Green party would not set targets for GDP growth but would instead focus on people’s mental health, social cohesion and community welfare, Zack Polanski has said in a major speech to set out his plans for the economy.In his first policy address since taking over as leader of the Greens in England and Wales six months ago, Polanski condemned what he called “rip-off Britain”, where a minority of asset owners benefited at the expense of people obliged to pay unaffordable sums for housing and other basics. Continue reading...

Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisationSuccessive governments have turned the UK from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back to people at a crushing cost, Zack Polanski will say.In a speech billed as the Green leader’s biggest policy intervention since he took over as leader six months ago, Polanski will argue that decades of gradual economic rebalancing in favour of a minority who own assets has left much of the country vulnerable to economic shocks such as the current rise in fuel prices. Continue reading...