Press Releases
5 June 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to todays’ speech by the UN Secretary General António Guterres, Green Party parliamentary candidate for North Herefordshire, Ellie Chowns, said: “The UN Secretary-General has reiterated today that the climate crisis is here and it’s hitting us hard. He made clear that if we are to have a liveable future we need to act with extreme […]
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4 June 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the head-to-head debate between Sunak and Starmer, Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay said: “This election debate needed to be better. “It would have been better if the other leaders of other political parties were stood alongside challenging the cosy consensus of Starmer’s Labour and Sunak’s Conservatives. “Our NHS is creaking, the cost-of-living crisis […]
4 June 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the announcement from Reform UK that Nigel Farage has been handed their leadership and that he is now standing as an MP in Clacton, despite just days ago confirming he wasn’t standing for election, Green Party Democracy and Citizen Engagement Spokesperson, Nate Higgins said, “Nigel Farage is not just a dodgy salesman. He is […]
3 June 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to Labour’s announcement on energy and security, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said: “The road to national energy security must lead to real change – a turn away from fossil fuels and a massive investment in renewable energy generation and energy saving programmes like home insulation delivered through local authorities right across the country. […]
2 June 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s comment “Read my lips – I will bring immigration numbers down” to the Sun on Sunday, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, said: “Keir Starmer is falling into the same trap that the Conservatives have. “Stoking division and adopting the anti-migrant rhetoric of Nigel Farage and Natalie Elphicke instead of welcoming […]
30 May 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to Labour’s announcement on Great British Energy, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said: “We need real change if we are to meet the demands of the climate crisis. These Labour plans do not deliver it. “Compared to Labour’s original commitment to spend £28bn a year on green investment, this announcement of just £8.3bn over […]
30 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Green parliamentary candidates launched their national General Election campaign with a rousing call to set aside the broken politics of the Conservatives and Labour and vote for “real hope and real change.” Co-leader, and parliamentary candidate for Bristol Central, Carla Denyer told the party’s General Election campaign launch in Bristol: “Across the country, people now […]
Co-leader, and parliamentary candidate for Bristol Central, Carla Denyer will tell the party’s General Election campaign launch later today: “Across the country, people now have the chance to vote for real hope and real change. “Our politics is broken, our public services are on their knees and people are worse off now than when the […]
29 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to Labour’s NHS plans, Green Party co-leader and parliamentary candidate for Waveney Valley, Adrian Ramsay said: “Labour is offering fantasy plans to end the NHS crisis. It wants to pay the private sector more, make existing staff work longer hours and squeeze more patients into overcrowded wards. “Waiting for growth, won’t cut waiting lists. […]
28 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to Labour’s plans to chase narrow economic growth over other priorities, Adrian Ramsay said: “The transition to a green economy provides major opportunities which we must grasp – opportunities for warmer homes, lower bills and good new jobs. The Green Party would invest in the technologies we need to ensure a sustainable and secure […]
26 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the news that The Conservatives plan to bring back national conscription, Green Party Co-Leader, Carla Denyer said, “This policy is removed from reality. It is not what our military needs and it certainly isn’t what our young people need. “What young people tell us they need is access to the housing market, to […]
24 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer welcomed the latest energy price cap drop, but warned it still left average consumers with bills £400 higher than before the energy crisis. Denyer said: “Consumers are still paying for a crisis not of their making. “Neither the Conservatives nor Labour are offering the real, practical, lasting solutions that […]
22 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
The Green Party welcomes the General Election as the chance for voters to choose hope and practical solutions to the crises facing the country. Co-leader and parliamentary candidate for Bristol Central Carla Denyer said: “At last. This is the moment the country has been waiting for – the chance to vote for a different vision […]
20 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the announcement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it is seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Green Party spokesperson for global solidarity, Carne Ross, said: “The ICC prosecutor’s announcement today sets out in horrifying detail […]
15 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Joint Statement from the Co-Leaders and Deputy Leader of The Green Party and Lord Mann, the Government’s Independent Advisor on Antisemitism: “Lord Mann and the leadership team at The Green Party of England and Wales met last week to discuss the important issue of antisemitism. Both parties have committed to continued dialogue and working together […]
13 May 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the prime minister’s ‘security’ speech at Policy Exchange [1], in which Rishi Sunak said “we must be prepared strategically, economically, with robust plans and greater national resilience, to meet this time of instability with strength, co-leader of the Green Party Adrian Ramsay said: “The prime minister’s speech on security failed to make a […]
10 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Responding to Labour Leader Keir Starmer’s speech in Dover, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said: “Labour is right to signal it will abandon the government’s inhumane Rwanda deportation plan, but it has failed to offer people seeking asylum the safe and legal routes that would offer a real alternative to people smugglers, or tackle the […]
9 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to a new report from the Office for Environmental Protection which says: “government will not meet its ambition that most water bodies will be on the road to good condition or else already in that state by 2027,” Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer said: “The Green Party wants to see much greater protection of […]
8 May 2024 / 10 June 2024 by Green Party
The Green Party has called for mandatory solar PV panels to be fitted on all appropriate new buildings and for all new homes to be built to Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standards. The call comes as analysis (1) finds that the world’s oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year and that the EU’s […]
4 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating an historic electoral victory after it emerged as the largest party on Bristol City Council and won every available seat in their target parliamentary constituency of Bristol Central. Across the city, the Green Party won 34 seats, becoming by far the largest party in the city and the largest group […]
3 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
In a historic electoral victory, amid a record-breaking local election campaign, the Green Party has this evening not only emerged as the largest party on Bristol City Council, but has also won every available seat in their target parliamentary constituency of Bristol Central. Across the city, the Green Party has won 34 seats in the […]
The Green Party has gone from the fourth largest party on Hastings Borough Council to the largest party. Greens won 8 seats and retained 1 of 16 seats up for election (38% of the vote), up from just 1 seat when the seats were contested in 2021. This leaves Greens with 12 councillors, Labour with […]
Reflecting on early local election results, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said: “Green councilors are being elected in ever higher numbers across the country and are ready to deliver for their communities. “We have won our first councilors on Newcastle Council, and our first councilors on Sefton and Redditch, taking seats from Labour and the […]
2 May 2024 / 9 June 2024 by Green Party
As polls closed across England in the local elections, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer said: “It has been a wonderful experience to be out on the doorstep listening to voters and understanding why their concerns over the cost of living, cuts to local services and the climate crisis are turning into votes for the Green […]