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‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

Author Russell Warfield argues the Green leader’s brand of politics is not new but has evolved in the party over time Watermelons: the term used to describe the members of the Green party of England and Wales who are green on the outside and red on the inside.

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