Why aren’t the Greens shooting through?

Reform UK is the minority party of Parliament attracting local votes and national column inches. What’s going wrong with the Greens’ approach? Adam Bienkov reports

By rights, the Green Party really should be surging at the moment. Faced with an unpopular Labour Prime Minister who is embracing Reform UK-style immigration rhetoric and Conservative-style welfare cuts, a viable left-of-centre alternative should be on the rise.

Yet, nearly a year after winning a record four seats in Parliament, some in the party fear it is failing to achieve its full potential.

At a time when support for the two major political parties is fracturing, it is Reform rather than the Greens that is enjoying the spoils. While Nigel Farage’s party is seeing national opinion poll leads of up to 10 percentage points over Labour, average support for the party co-led by Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay (pictured with Siân Berry) remains in the single digits.