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18 November 2024 / 19 November 2024 by Green Party
Responding to £1bn in funding which the government says will deliver a London-style bus service across England [1], co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer MP, said: “It is encouraging to hear that councils will be empowered to take control of bus services. Tory deregulation of services was a green light for axing routes, running […]
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Reacting to planned protests this week by farmers over changes to Inheritance tax [1], Green Party Food, Agriculture & Rural Welfare spokesperson, Emily O’Brien, said: “Farmers are feeling abandoned. They have suffered badly from Brexit, both via detrimental trade conditions and reduced subsidies. And tax breaks for agricultural land have inflated land values, making it […]
15 November 2024 / 15 November 2024 by Paul Corry
Reacting to calls for the COP process to be reformed (1), Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer MP said: “This is a timely call for reform of an international forum that has achieved a great deal but now needs to drive action in the face of the dire climate crisis the world faces. “COP has brought […]
14 November 2024 by Paul Corry
The four Green MPs yesterday wrote to the Foreign Secretary to clarify the Government’s position on the risk of genocide in Gaza. Ellie Chowns said: “The UK has an obligation to prevent genocide under international law. We know the Government has not described the Israeli government’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza as a genocide – […]
Responding to briefings on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech on pension funds reform, Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP said: “Chancellor Rachel Reeves needs to quickly set out the details of her headline-grabbing plans to create mega-pension funds to ensure that they provide the investment we need to urgently transition our economy beyond fossil […]
12 November 2024 / 12 November 2024 by Andrew Bell
Reacting to Keir Starmer’s public address at COP29 where he announced a new climate target for the UK to reduce the country’s emissions by 81% by 2035 against 1990 levels, Green MP Ellie Chowns said: “The announcement of an 81% cut in emissions by 2035 is welcome – we need to remove fossil fuels from […]
8 November 2024 by Paul Corry
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer MP urged world leaders to attend COP29 next week to underline its critical importance: “COP29 has set itself the goal of “deep, rapid and sustained emission reductions now to keep temperatures under control and stay below 1.5˚C, while leaving no one behind’. “But it won’t achieve that without the international […]
6 November 2024 / 6 November 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the US elections, Green Party Co-Leader, Carla Denyer, said, “A dangerous bigot, bully, and liar is once again set to become the leader of the most powerful country in the world. A climate change denier, a proud racist and misogynist, and a man who has sought to subvert elections and incite insurrection. On […]
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30 October 2024 / 30 October 2024 by Green Party
Greens call on chancellor to: Ahead of today’s Budget, co-leader Carla Denyer said: “We need to see Labour use this opportunity to make some bold decisions. “Fourteen years of Tory underinvestment in our NHS, our schools, care for our elderly loved ones have left our public services crumbling around us and in a state of […]
29 October 2024 by Andrew Bell
Ahead of the Labour government’s first Budget on Wednesday, Green Party Council leaders are warning of the urgent need for proper funding for local councils and services, after many years of damaging austerity. Local Government Association analysis shows that service spending in 2022/23 was 42.1% lower than it would have been had service spend moved […]
23 October 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the news (BBC) that a new independent commission will soon launch the largest review of the water industry since privatisation in the 1980s, Green Party Co-Leader, Carla Denyer said, “Water is a basic human need. It should be in public hands run for people, not profit. I don’t know why Labour won’t even […]
17 October 2024 / 17 October 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the news that Labour is planning to build HS2 from London to Crewe (LBC), Green Party Transport Spokesperson, Matt Edwards, said, “A high-speed rail line connecting only the suburbs of London to Birmingham was the worst of all worlds. The Green Party welcomes the investment in our railways, but this is just one part […]
15 October 2024 by Steve Hynd
Responding to the news that putting household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power (BBC), Green Party Peer Baroness Jenny Jones said, “I highlighted the issue of incineration stopping councils from recycling back in 2010 when I was on the London Assembly. This became a national issue about […]
15 October 2024 by Green Party
Green Party MP for North Herefordshire, Ellie Chowns said: “Starmer’s pledge to investors that he will “cut red tape” is a tired cliché that, in practice, too often means harming environmental standards and workers’ rights. We’ve had fourteen years of successive Conservative governments promising to “cut red tape,” and all we have to show for […]
15 October 2024 / 15 October 2024 by Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader, Carla Denyer said, “The reports over the weekend that no food has entered Northern Gaza since the 1st of October, of Israel’s attack on al-Aqsa Hospital, of chemical weapons being used to attack UNIFIL peacekeepers, of mass civilian casualties in Gaza’s Jabalia Refugee Camp and of increased rocket fire into Israel from […]
12 October 2024 / 11 October 2024 by Paul Corry
Commenting on Labour’s first 100 days in office, Green Party Co-Leader Carla Denyer MP said: “The collapse in Starmer’s popularity since taking office has been remarkable. It was clear to me during the election campaign that voters across the country wanted change. After 14 years of Tory failure, they expected Labour to deliver it. The […]
9 October 2024 / 9 October 2024 by Andrew Bell
Co-leader of the Green Party and MP for Bristol Central, Carla Denyer, will welcome the Renters’ Rights Bill in parliament later today, but will say it must go further in defending the rights of 11 million renters in the UK. Denyer said: “This is a once in a generation opportunity to recognise the rights of […]
9 October 2024 / 9 October 2024 by Green Party
Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party said: “The claim that wealth taxes would lead to large numbers of people leaving the UK isn’t credible. This didn’t happen when changes were made to non-dom status in 2017, and research by Patriotic Millionaires has shown that 68% of those with over £1 million to invest support […]
7 October 2024 by Andrew Bell
Commenting on reports that the £22bn in subsidies awarded to carbon capture and storage projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, co-leader of the Green Party, Adiran Ramsay MP said: “Revelations that this £22 billion bung to carbon capture and storage followed extensive lobbying reveals that it is the government that […]
4 October 2024 / 4 October 2024 by Paul Corry
Reacting to the government announcement of investment in carbon capture and storage projects, Green MP and party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said: “Labour has spent too long listening to the pleadings of energy companies for major public investment in unproven technological solutions like carbon capture that simply won’t deliver the immediate real change we need. […]
2 October 2024 / 2 October 2024 by Andrew Bell
Responding to the increasingly dangerous situation in the Middle East, Sian Berry MP said: “We are deeply alarmed at last night’s attacks on Israel and the invasion of Lebanon, all of which show a growing escalation of the conflict. We express our solidarity with civilians under attack everywhere, whether in Israel, Lebanon, Gaza or elsewhere […]
1 October 2024 / 1 October 2024 by Andrew Bell
Commenting on the escalating situation in the Middle East and on the invasion of Lebanon by Israeli defence forces, Sian Berry, MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: “The invasion and attacks on Lebanon by Israel, causing the deaths of over a thousand people and displacement of a million others, are horrific and devastating. The Green Party […]
30 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Commenting on the closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station today, Green MP Carla Denyer said: “The end of coal-fired energy generation is an important step on the long road to tackling the climate crisis. “Thousands of people have been employed at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station over the half-century it has been working. It has […]
25 September 2024 / 25 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Reacting to a motion on winter fuel payments put forward by the Unite union and supported by a majority of delegates at Labour Party conference, co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer, said: “Today’s vote at Labour Party conference leaves Labour ministers out in the cold. There is a groundswell of support – from opposition […]