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Open border immigration 'not pragmatic right now', says Green Party leader
Polanski advocates for a fair, managed migration system amid a surge in Green Party support, noting one in five care workers are foreign nationals and rejecting open borders as impractical.
- Earlier this week, Green Party leader Zack Polanski told Sky News from a warehouse in Calais, France, that open borders are "not a pragmatic" solution amid global "turmoil" after joining volunteers and charities observing migrant arrivals.
- The Green Party's long‑range vision prompted Polanski to distance himself from it, saying opponents use it as an attack line to exaggerate party aims rather than current policies.
- Citing workforce pressures, Zack Polanski said asylum seekers should work and pay taxes while training British workers, noting 100,000 vacancies in the National Health Service and one in five care workers are foreign nationals.
- The remarks prompted criticism from Labour MPs including Wes Streeting as Polanski refused to apologise for his care comments made during a "hostile Question Time" with "three right-wing panellists shouting at me," amid a spike in Green Party poll support.
- Polanski said longer‑term change would require massive international agreements and cooperation, noting the party manifesto last year did not advocate open borders but called for safer routes and a department of migration.
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Open Border Immigration 'not Pragmatic Right Now', Says Green Party Leader
Mr Polanski distanced himself from his party’s “long-range vision” for open borders, saying it was not in his party’s manifesto and was an “attack line used by opponents” to question his credibility. It came as Mr Polanski, who has overseen a spike in support in the polls to double figures, refused to apologise over controversial comments he made about care workers on BBC Question Time that were criticised across the political spectrum. Mr Polan…
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution40% Left, 40% Center
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40% Center
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C 40%
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