Labour ends power-sharing with Greens in 11 councils over Zionism row
Summary
Labour has ended power-sharing agreements with the Green Party in 11 local councils after the Greens adopted a policy defining Zionism as racism. Labour said the councils did not meet its conditions for continued cooperation; the decision could delay some local budgets and policy votes.Key Facts
- The councils include Sheffield, Warwick, Lewes, Arun, Derbyshire Dales, Havant, Runnymede, Stafford, Wealden, West Devon and West Suffolk.
- Labour said Green groups in six other authorities met its conditions: Broadland, Monmouthshire, North Somerset, Rother, West Oxfordshire and West Sussex.
- Labour said Coventry has no formal agreement with the Greens and that it will not make one.
- The Green Party adopted the motion as party policy after members approved it at the party's October conference.
- The motion described Zionism as an ideology supporting an ethnonationalist Jewish state in historic Palestine and backed a single democratic Palestinian state.
- Labour demanded that local Green groups disown the motion and ask the party's national leadership to reconsider it.
- Green Party leader Zack Polanski called the motion imperfect but defended its central argument.
- Labour said cooperation had already ceased in Runnymede.
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