‘We are a completely different political party’: inside the Greens’ membership boom
With membership soaring, the Green party is grappling with logistics, culture shifts and a flood of new activistsIt is, as one Green activist put it, a never-ending series of “constantly good problems to have”. But how does a party adapt to the sudden trebling of its membership? And when a...
<p>With membership soaring, the Green party is grappling with logistics, culture shifts and a flood of new activists</p><p>It is, as one Green activist put it, a never-ending series of “constantly good problems to have”. But how does a party adapt to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/green-party-membership-surge-byelection-victory-zack-polanski">the sudden trebling</a> of its membership? And when a majority of people in an organisation are new, is it even the same thing anymore?</p><p>The basic facts alone are startling. Before Zack Polanski <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/02/zack-polanski-wins-green-party-leadership-election">took over</a> as leader last September, the Greens in England and Wales had around 66,000 members. They are now at 215,000, and still rising at speed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/14/green-party-membership-boom">Continue reading...</a>
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