Danny Braverman, 63, Suffolk

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay: Young people face intergenerational injustice in many areas, from housing to education, and need to see they can make a difference through politics. Not least to the climate and nature crises that threaten to destroy their future – which is one reason we need to keep this primary focus. Adrian joined the Green party at 16, co-founded the Young Greens and has consistently championed youth representation. Ellie – as councillor, MEP and MP – has encouraged young people’s involvement, pushing for youth inclusion on local boards, taking groups to the EU and Westminster parliaments, and setting up the West Midlands Youth Climate Assembly.

Zack Polanski: Inspire them. Listen to them. Involve them.

Young people face stagnant wages, high costs and the climate crisis. Why would they engage unless they can feel it makes a real difference? We need every young person to experience their power early on – through local campaigns, climate action or activism. As deputy leader, I’ve consistently amplified youth voices. As leader, I’ll turn the volume up.

Danny Braverman: I’m disappointed with both responses. Representative democracy will not motivate the very many disengaged young people. Radicalism lies in participatory democracy, such as regional youth citizens assemblies. I’d like to see Zach as the new leader. He’s the nearest to my own politics. I’d describe myself as a watermelon: green on the outside, red on the inside, with some black anarchist pips for good measure.

Simon Legg, 71, Felixstowe

EC & AR: The widening inequality and deepening poverty that blight so many lives are so clearly linked to the concentration of more and more wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Those with the least are the first to be hit hard by climate breakdown, and a just transition to a zero-carbon world can’t happen without much greater redistribution of wealth. At the heart of Green politics – and our personal values – is a commitment to the fundamental equality of all people, to breaking down barriers and sharing resources fairly. Politics is how we can reverse the market’s tendency to concentrate wealth and power.

ZP: Class is central. Without fair wages, resources and skills, other inequalities persist. We must be rooted in working-class communities. People know that the super rich and corporations are destroying our environment, communities and democracies. This isn’t “us v them” – it’s all of us, building change from the grassroots up.

Simon Legg: These are decent answers to a question that could legitimately be answered in innumerable ways.

Hana Prosser, 56, Oxford

EC & AR: With the political landscape shifting at incredible speed, we see this as an entirely possible scenario. We’d focus on three things: electoral reform, fair taxation of extreme wealth to invest in........

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