Andy Burnham’s ultimatum to the Greens has changed everything
The PM is in an escalating stand-off with Zack Polanski over the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” position
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Megan Kenyon
Megan Kenyon is a political correspondent at the New Statesman. She was previously a court reporter at the Old Bailey covering grisly murder cases. She has been reading the New Statesman since she was 16.
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