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GREENS hailed a major coup yesterday after RMT president Peter Pinkney sensationally announced he would join the party as a parliamentary candidate.
The “lifelong socialist” becomes the most senior figure in the trade union movement to break with Labour before the general election.
Mr Pinkney will stand in the Teesside constituency of Redcar, where a bitterly divided Labour Party is seeking to seize the seat back from the Liberal Democrats.
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
