• May 8 2026
  UK local elections

  Britain’s elections in maps and charts

  Nigel Farage’s Reform UK made sweeping gains in northern England, with a Brexit divide still clear

  
• May 8 2026
  UK local elections

  Greens notch up urban wins but support falls short in some areas

  Insurgent leftwing party celebrates mayoral success in Hackney and Lewisham but ward candidates struggle to convert vote share into seats

  
• May 8 2026
  UK local elections

  UK elections as they happened: Reform surges in England as nationalist parties triumph in Scotland and Wales

  Nigel Farage’s party has won more than 1,100 seats

  
• May 6 2026
  UK local elections

  Row over Green candidates’ comments lays bare party’s real danger

  Criticism of social media posts will not decide elections — but the quality of vetting matters for competency

  Stephen Bush

  
• May 6 2026
  UK politics

  Green Party leader admits he was wrong to claim he was British Red Cross spokesperson

  Zack Polanski also defends party against allegations of antisemitism

  
• May 5 2026
  Antisemitism

  Labour urges Greens to expel candidates who have spread ‘antisemitic hatred’

  Criticism of populist leftwing party intensifies ahead of key elections on Thursday

  
• May 5 2026
  UK politics

  What is at stake in Britain’s elections?

  Reform, the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Lib Dems are hoping to make gains at the expense of the two mainstream parties

  
• May 3 2026
  UK politics

  Britain enters the era of seven-party politics

  Labour and the Conservatives combined account for barely a third of voters in polls — threatening the UK’s constitutional certainties

  
• May 1 2026
  UK employment

  Greens to pledge £15 minimum wage in employment rights’ push

  Insurgent party seeks to court voters and trade unions with promises on pay and secondary picketing

  
• April 30 2026
  UK local elections

  The Big Read. Starmergeddon: what Labour’s likely meltdown means for the UK

  The ruling party is being outflanked by populists on the left and right. The consequences could change British politics for good

  
• April 29 2026
  UK politics

  Reform UK and Greens hit controversy on election trail

  Questions over candidate vetting and campaign organisation as populist parties grow quickly

  
• April 19 2026
  UK local elections

  Is London ready for the Green Party?

  Zack Polanski’s leftwing populists are aiming to eat into Labour’s heartlands

  
• April 10 2026
  UK politics

  What happens when the Green Party governs?

  Despite Zack Polanski’s radical ‘ecopopulism’, England’s handful of Green-run councils have hit political and fiscal reality

  
• April 9 2026
  UK politics

  Britain is in the grip of the fed-up-niks

  What voters are really being drawn to is confident leadership that appears to offer new solutions

  Robert Shrimsley

  
• April 3 2026
  Politics

  Corbynistas flock to Zack Polanski’s Green Party

  Allies of the former Labour leader are being drawn by ‘eco-populist’ pivot to the left

  
• March 18 2026
  UK energy

  Green Party leader pledges £8.4bn to stop UK energy bills rising

  Zack Polanski says party would prevent increases in household energy costs through higher taxes on capital gains  

  
• March 9 2026
  UK by-elections

  Is the Green Party too radical for Britain?

  As Zack Polanski’s leftwing outfit gains momentum in the polls, its more unconventional policies are under scrutiny

  
• March 3 2026
  Inside Politics

  Greens’ second place in new poll puts Labour under pressure

  Wave of excitement could strengthen Zack Polanski’s party in May elections, as Reform and Tories take unpopular position on Iran war

  
• March 1 2026
  UK politics

  Farage calls for new restrictions on voting after by-election loss

  Reform UK leader claims the party won the election ‘among British-born voters’

  
• February 27 2026
  UK politics

  Britain’s old political duopoly has been shattered

  The country used to be contemptuous of parties on either extreme, but no longer

  Camilla Cavendish

  
• February 27 2026
  UK by-elections

  ‘There is an alternative’: Zack Polanski’s transformation of the Greens

  Self-styled ‘eco-populist’ revels in ‘seismic’ by-election victory in Gorton and Denton

  
• February 27 2026
  UK politics

  The FT View. An election that shakes up British politics

  The Greens’ victory is a crushing blow for Sir Keir Starmer

  The editorial board

  
• February 27 2026
  Inside Politics

  Anti-Reform voters give up on Labour

  Fear of Farage is mobilising voters, but frustration with government means Britons will find alternative beneficiaries

  
• February 27 2026
  UK by-elections

  ‘The worst outcome’: Green triumph creates new peril for Labour

  By-election result shows split in leftwing vote which could be replicated at May local elections

  
• February 27 2026
  UK by-elections

  Greens win key UK by-election in blow to Labour

  Gorton and Denton loss a severe setback to Prime Minister Keir Starmer after divisive campaign