"I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a British political party in the last 100 years, he said. And that also means that I do want to spend a moment to mark yesterday's awful attack. As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester I feel this deeply and my heart is with the community. More widely I am the product of migration. It's why defending migrants matters so much to me. It's a common Jewish experience a tale as old as time."
"This is a party not afraid to say migration has helped make this country what we are today. And it's made this party too, said Polanski, who changed his surname from Paulden to Polanski when he was 18, reversing the anglicisation his relatives adopted when they arrived from eastern Europe. Polanski, who won the election to lead the party in England and Wales last month, cited his background and those of the party's deputy leaders, Mothin Ali and Rachel Millward."
The Greens will directly challenge Labour and warn that Keir Starmer risks handing the country to Reform UK. The party condemns Labour's managed decline and the imitation of Reform policies on migration. The party strongly defends migration as having helped shape the nation and the party itself. The leader marked horror at a recent synagogue attack and framed migration defence as rooted in personal and communal experience. The leader reclaimed a family surname tied to Latvian, Ukrainian and Polish origins. The leadership team includes deputies with Bangladeshi and long-established English family backgrounds, signalling religious and cultural diversity.
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