Overview

• Polanski defeated MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by 20,411 to 3,705, becoming the party’s first sole leader.
• The London Assembly member, who is not an MP, promised to build a mass‑membership movement and use sharper communications to raise the party’s profile.
• He set out a left‑leaning economic agenda, including a wealth tax on billionaires, renationalising water companies and stronger business regulation.
• Turnout was about 37% of roughly 68,500 members after a race that drew accusations of “entryism,” which Polanski rejects.
• He has not ruled out working with Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s nascent Your Party and vowed to challenge Labour while countering Reform UK’s appeal.