Green Party

Opposition parties in Westminster are pushing ahead with plans to force a vote on whether Boris Johnson should be investigated for a “consistent failure to be honest” in parliament. Six opposition parties have written to Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle urging him to allow a vote. The letter, organised by the Green MP Caroline Lucas, has […]

Scottish independence offers the only way back for the country to rejoin the European Union, the Scottish Greens have claimed. The party’s co-leader Lorna Slater said leaving the UK “is now our route back to EU membership” and that it would give Scotland “the powers and potential to be a leader in the transition to […]

Nicola Sturgeon has ruled out working with Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party after May’s Holyrood election – but has left open the prospect of a future deal with the Scottish Greens. While she insisted she is fighting the upcoming election in a bid to win an outright majority for the SNP after the May 6 […]

Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is emerging as a serious contender in the contest to succeed Angela Merkel. Towards the end of this year Europe may well have its first Green head of government – a German, a woman, a former youth elite trampolinist. Annalena Baerbock: remember the name, because she is set to become […]

TANIT KOCH on just how close the Green Party are to power in Germany… and how they could throw it all away. Remember the many Britons who got hold of an EU passport after the 2016 referendum via the odd Irish granny? You may be among them. If you could now make that work vice versa, there’s a huge […]

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The Green Party has become Westminster’s third biggest party in a new Ipsos Mori poll. The party – led by Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry – has overtaken the Liberal Democrats in the latest polling. It now enjoys 8% of support, one point ahead of Ed Davey’s organisation. The polling finds the Tories have opened […]

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has explained why she will reject Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal – saying she wants to avoid being complicit in the creation of a “poorer, smaller UK with diminished global influence”. Lucas, a pro-European campaigner, said that there is no mandate for the agreement the prime minister secured with the EU. […]

The Green Party has welcomed news of a Brexit deal to prevent a no-deal Brexit – but criticised the opposition for leaving the government’s position on leaving the EU “untested”. Any deal Johnson secures is likely to pass through parliament with Labour expected not to oppose it – Sir Keir Starmer has stressed that an agreement […]

Caroline Lucas has topped a list of powerful women. The Green Party MP took first place in the Woman’s Hour Power List, marking positive contributions women make to the environment and sustainability. Lucas is followed by environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin, described by judges as a “powerhouse for climate justice”. Clean air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, whose […]

The Green Party has accused the government of “ripping up” environmental protections in the UK after Brexit. Co-leader Jonathan Bartley said that it was “clear” that the UK leaving the European Union would leave weaker protections from the environment, and the formation of a new Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog will not alleviate those […]

A party supported by Nigel Farage has just won millions of votes in a European election standing on a strongly Eurosceptic platform. However this party wasn’t UKIP or the Brexit Party but the Greens. And the year was 1989. The Green Party received 2.3 million votes in that election – including Farage’s – representing a […]

The Green Party has joined calls for the UK to retain membership of the single market and customs union, as Boris Johnson looks set to abandon his self-imposed deadline for a trade deal. The party wants to see freedom of movement retained, particularly for young people who have the most to gain from working and […]

The Green Party has become the third biggest party in new YouGov polling for Westminster. Despite limited amounts of media coverage for the Greens, the polling is the first time the pollster has recorded the party overtaking the Liberal Democrat since March 2015. The new polling puts the party on 6% (+1) of support, ahead […]

Dido Harding – the Tory peer in charge of the new Test and Trace scheme  – has been urged to either resign or be sacked over coronavirus testing failures. The government is under fresh scrutiny after 16,000 Covid-19 cases went unreported and led to a delay in efforts to trace contacts of people who tested positive […]

The Green Party’s leadership has avoided referencing Brexit or membership of the European Union as it pitched its vision to supporters as part of this year’s virtual conference. Co-leaders Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry instead used their conference speech to focus on the pandemic response.  Bartley said the action taken in response to the crisis had […]