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A Green councillor who once branded David Lammy a ‘coconut’ has been handed a top job in Lewisham council’s new cabinet. Hau-Yu Tam was made cabinet member for “sanctuary and healing” last night.

🚨 BREAKING: Chris Kennedy, the Green Party candidate in the Makerfield by-election, has pulled out for "personal and family reasons" The party will reopen nominations this evening

Today, Andy Burnham made clear he supports electoral reform and said he wanted to come into the BBC to speak for himself because he was getting annoyed at others putting words in his mouth.

‘Bitter play’ lolz You do realise your biggest strength as Greens is that people think you’re decent and principled. Unlike the ‘big bad’ establishment parties. All posts like this show is what you’re really about as a movement. Keep going 😊

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he'll be travelling to Makerfield to campaign for Andy Burnham “I want everybody to be involved in the campaign, whatever other discussions are going on”

I have written to Andy Burnham to ask whether he would establish an independent public inquiry into the British government’s complicity in genocide.

Find a more believable front person then Zack Polanski and maybe you’ll find it easier to spin this yarn… He doesn’t exactly scream left wing working class man of the people does he!

YouGov's study of the 2026 local elections shows that just 46% of 2024 Labour voters who went to the polls remained loyal to the party, with more backing the Greens (22%) than Reform UK (6%) two weeks ago The Conservatives retained 55% of their 2024 voters, with 33% switching to Reform UK

Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry. “The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”

There were good reasons Burnham lost the Labour leadership in 2015. His politics hasn’t changed that much, it’s sad seeing the left Labour loyalists, who didn’t vote for him then, trying to claim he’s brilliant now. The Progressive Movement should stick with Polanski’s Greens.