Councillor, 21, makes Green leadership bid

AT 21, Thomas Daw is the youngest councillor on North Somerset Council and - until last week’s local elections - was the Green Party’s youngest councillor in the country.

- JOHN WIMPERIS Local Democracy Reporter

Now he has launched a bid to become the party’s new deputy leader. Mr Daw told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “We are the best performing party among 18to 24-year-olds and there’s no one in our leadership that reflects that.”

Current deputy leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, became the first to announce his bid to run for party leader earlier this week, calling for the Greens to embrace “eco-populism” to take on Reform.

Unlike other political parties where leaders stay in post until they resign, the Green Party holds regular leadership elections for which you do not have to be an MP to run.

Mr Daw said he was backing Mr Polanski. Asked if the party needed to be more populist, he said: “Absolutely. We need more fire.