Max Salmon: A legacy to be proud of

James Shaw announced his resignation as co-leader of the Green Party earlier this week. Although retirement was not announced, one assumes it cannot be too far away.

Shaw has remained an interestingly divisive figure throughout his tenure as co-leader. He was respected by many on the right for his pragmatism and disliked by a core of the left for his perceived openness to compromise. All this, despite having led the Greens as they embraced a dramatically left-leaning US-style politics of identity and culture.