Greens and Reform are chasing same voters, says veteran Caroline Lucas

The Green Party and Reform UK are chasing the same disenchanted voters who do not feel listened to, the party veteran Caroline Lucas has said.

People who feel “let down” by the traditional political parties and institutions and who may believe the answer lies in Nigel Farage’s party are the “people we want to be speaking to”, Lucas said.

Chatting to The i Paper at the Green conference in Bournemouth, Lucas – who is writing her second book, which will be about how to defeat right-ring populism – condemned the anti-migrant policies promoted by Farage and his party.

Newly elected Green leader Zack Polanski was “not backward in terms of the criticism that he levels at the Reform leadership”, she said, referring to his claim that Farage was campaigning on a messaging of “despair”.

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