Powell said her party needs to win back progressive, center-left voters from the Greens who are “fed up with the status quo” — but stopped short of endorsing working with Polanski’s party after the next election.  

The Greens won four parliamentary seats at the 2024 election – Bristol Central, North Herefordshire, Waveney Valley and Brighton Pavilion.

The party subsequently gained a fifth MP through a by-election victory in Gorton and Denton earlier this year.

During the interview with POLITICO, Powell accused Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK of suggesting that Abdi-Wali “has got no right to stand as an MP because she’s a refugee” and was “born in another country.”

Reform’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, has previously criticized Abdi-Wali’s candidacy, pointing out that she was born in Somalia.  

Powell said many voters in Holborn and St Pancras would back Labour to “reject that notion and reject that kind of politics.”