This is The Guardian.
Today, inside the Green Party Surge, in Zak Polanski's vision for Britain.
It's a cold, wet December evening outside a lecture hall at King's College London.
We're waiting to meet Zak Polanski.
Alongside, hundreds of excitable students forming queues to get into tonight's event.
Well, we released tickets and I think they all sold out pretty much completely within an hour.
And I was at the student pub the other night after our politics ball and the bartender came up to me and she was like,
oh, have you got any, like, Polanski tickets left?
And I was like, I'm really sorry, no.
And then also with these events.
Just a few months ago,
few people had even heard of Zak Polanski or cared who the leader of the Green Party was.
But the Polanski surge has been unstoppable.
He's more than doubled the party's membership in less than 100 days.
He's all over social media feeds.
I think more and more people are joining the Green Party
because they're totally unhappy with what this Labour government are offering.
Podcasts.
Thank you very much for having me.
What a lovely introduction.