In Gorton and Denton, where the Greens overturned Labour’s 2024 majority of 13,415 at a by-election in February, campaigners claimed that opposing “cruel” immigration policies attracted votes.
Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, a Green target for the next election, stated that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms — including changes to indefinite leave to remain — are contentious in her constituency.
The rhetoric from the Home Office “creates a one-way narrative, that we are only about control and are not capable of compassion,” she commented.
“It goes to voters’ values,” she cautioned. “And our messaging doesn’t resonate with Reform voters — they will never believe that we are trying to reduce immigration, even when we’ve been remarkably successful at it — but it does resonate with Green voters, who think we’re being overly harsh.”
All about the likes
Polanski also seems to have met his match in digital communication.
The Green Party leader’s political broadcasts, which garnered millions of likes and shares across social media, were viewed as a refreshing change from the dull videos produced by Labour HQ under Starmer.













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