North and South of the border, it’s boom time for the Greens. They’re capitalising on Keir Starmer’s abandonment of the left and could even replace Labour as the leading progressive party across the UK. Analysis from our Writer at Large.

If you want to understand the approaching death of Labour look no further than its Scottish MP Joani Reid, hailed by the right-wing press as the party’s great and future hope.

She’s currently being accused of sounding like a Reform tribute act, after taking to Elon Musk’s rancid X platform and claiming the SNP turned “Glasgow into a sanctuary for asylum seekers”.

It’s not exactly the language you’d expect from the granddaughter of Scotland’s socialist hero Jimmy Reid. But then the benefit of nepotistic name-recognition is no guarantor of shared intergenerational values.

The Green Party – both north and south of the border – is building a new left-wing movement on the pile of dirt Labour is amassing as it digs its own grave.

Greens are moving from the fringes to the mainstream, scooping up left-wing voters sick to death of Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar and the likes of Reid.

The latest polls put the Greens and Labour neck and neck in England. Labour is now at its lowest ebb ever on just 15%. Under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, the previous low was 23%.

The Greens in England and........

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