Green Party surge to equal standing with Labour

In a new poll by Find Out Now, it seems the Green Party under Zack Polanski has pulled level with the ruling Labour Party under Keir Starmer. This means, as Green Elects has pointed out, that the party is now the joint third-biggest in the country for the first time ever.

Find Out Now voting intention:
🟦 Reform UK: 32% (-)
🔵 Conservatives: 17% (-)
🟢 Greens: 15% (-)
🔴 Labour: 15% (-2)
🟠 Lib Dems: 12% (-)

Changes from 8th October
[Find Out Now, 15th October, N=2,705] pic.twitter.com/Yxdl1sgsoE

— Find Out Now (@FindoutnowUK) October 16, 2025

🚨 | Greens third for the first time in Westminster latest poll

🟦 REF: 32% (-)
🔵 CON: 17% (-)
🟢 GRN: 15% (-)
🔴 LAB: 15% (-2)
🟠 LDM: 12% (-)

via @FindoutnowUK / 15 Oct
Chgs w/ 8 Oct. pic.twitter.com/YjHZUlrWYu

— Green Elects (@GrnElects) October 16, 2025

I admit it.

I didn’t realise it was going to happen this quickly.

Keep going everyone! 🚀https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp https://t.co/Wth8nnB5qs

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) October 16, 2025

Green Party surge

Find Out Now notes that this variation is within the margin of error. But a year into Keir Starmer’s flailing right-wing government, public opinion has clearly been shifting away from Labour for a long time. One key sign of this is that Starmer has earned himself the title of ‘most unpopular prime minister ever‘ (and we’ve had loads of bad ones to choose from).

The Greens, meanwhile, are on a roll after the election of clear-talking left-winger Zack Polanski. The party is as big a challenge to Labour as Reform. But Starmer, whose project was always about crushing the left, has predictably opted to pander to the far right instead of making overtures to the left. And, abandoning Labour voters in such a blatant fashion has been clearly disastrous for Starmer’s regime, but beneficial for the Greens.

This surge is now absolutely phenomenal.

110,000 members.

That’s +5000 in the last 24 hours alone!https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp https://t.co/Ml9Xfodgol

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) October 14, 2025

Presenting the results as a rolling average instead evens out any week-on-week distortions pic.twitter.com/TYdlkKG0UN

— Find Out Now (@FindoutnowUK) October 16, 2025

The accessible clarity of Polanski’s message seems to be cutting through just as Labour’s right-wing leadership is digging in. And that’s exactly what the left needs right now: courage to speak the truth about the current situation and the skill to set out an alternative in language that everyone can understand. That’s something that all the dodgy money and underhand scheming in the world couldn’t give Starmer and his corporate cronies.

🟢 Here’s why you should join the Green Party 👇https://t.co/MtUTsPTrvi pic.twitter.com/G7azXG6oiK

— Bradford Green Party (@bradfordgreens) October 14, 2025

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