Zack Polanski now less popular than Nigel Farage, stark new poll shows

Zack Polanski is now less popular with voters than Nigel Farage, a devastating poll has suggested on the eve of his crucial fight to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Fresh polling from More in Common has found Mr Polanski to be the least popular major UK party leader, falling by four points to a -28 net approval.

His net approval sits four points below Reform UK leader at - 24, while Andy Burnham has received a five point boost to his approval ratings to +16 and Kemi Badenoch has risen by two to +2.

Overall, the poll found just 16 per cent of voters thought Mr Polanski was doing a good job as leader, compared to 43 per cent who believed he was doing a bad job.

Meanwhile, 28 per cent believed Mr Farage is doing a good job, compared to 52 per cent who believe he is doing a bad job.

The blow comes just ones day before voters in Holborn and St Pancras head to the polls to decide whether to elect Mr Polanski as their next MP after Sir Keir Starmer announced he was standing down.

But the fallout of a motion passed at the Green Party conference on Sunday, determining zionism as racism, has threatened to split the party.

It declares the Greens to be an “anti-Zionist party” and sets into its policy that Zionism, the movement to develop and protect a Jewish state in Israel, will be “treated as any other form of racism”.

Mr Polanski abstained from the vote, having already left the conference to return to campaigning in Sir Keir Starmer’s old constituency.

In the wake of the vote, the Wales Green Party’s deputy leader announced his resignation on Tuesday, and said that he had left the party after seven years.