Peter Walker

You know, where they had some urban MPs, but some rural ones too.

But you don't currently hear anyone within the party who thinks he's not doing a good job.

It'll show that they're there to stay.

And I think the interesting thing is that nothing does better for a political party than showing you can win.

Particularly under first-past-the-post, people don't want to waste their votes.

Gordon and Denton was a fascinating one because they managed to convince the left or centre-leading electorate that they were the ones who could, you know, win.

And that's an amazing trick if you can do it.

I think another lesson will be that now they're playing in a big league, they're going to have to think about how their party runs.

And I think this is a debate which will go on for quite some time, and it might be quite internal and process-based.

But there is this almost philosophical question.

Can you run a mainstream party potentially looking for a role in government in the way that the Greens run?

Because Zach Polanski isn't a leader.

He's still essentially a spokesperson.

That's what the Greens used to have.

They had spokesmen and spokeswomen.

And currently his only power in the party, there's an executive committee of the party in England and Wales with about 15 members on it.

He's got one vote.

And literally that's it.

He can't set policy.

You have to have this thing that if there's no control really over the candidates, no control over local parties, no control over policy, how do you run a national party like that?