Press Releases
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
12 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Responding to Keir Starmer’s speech on Lord Darzi’s review of the state of the NHS, co-leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay MP, said: “The Darzi review pulls no punches: the NHS has been harmed by austerity, capital starvation, the disastrous 2012 Health and Social Care Act and the dire state of social care. “It […]
11 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Reacting to the announcement by the UK government that it will grant Tata Steel £500m towards the cost of building a greener electric furnace in Port Talbot, but that around 2,800 workers are set to be made redundant, Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter said: “This is the first test of the new Labour government’s commitment […]
9 September 2024 by Paul Corry
The Green Party has voted at its Manchester conference to recognise the Israeli government as an “apartheid” state, as defined by international treaties such as the International Convention on Apartheid (1973) and Rome Statute (1998). The conference also voted to recognise Israeli military operations in Gaza as a “genocide” as defined under the UN Genocide […]
8 September 2024 / 8 September 2024 by Green Party
Delegates at Green Party conference in Manchester have voted for HS2 to be funded and completed in full, including the entire Eastern leg and an underground through station at Manchester Piccadilly. The policy development comes as phase one of HS2 between London and Birmingham is well under construction. Commenting on the revised Green Party policy, […]
The Green Party has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester. Commenting Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay said: “There is no place for Freeports or Special Economic Zones in the United Kingdom. Their introduction will only serve to displace economic […]
At their conference in Manchester, Green delegates today voted to support an immediate ban on greyhound racing and the use of the whip in horse racing. This is alongside a high compulsory levy to be imposed on all betting, to be used solely for welfare improvements, and a single regulatory authority to enforce animal welfare […]
At its party conference in Manchester, the Greens have voted to support United Nations experts’ calls for the Taliban’s treatment of women to be recognised as a gender apartheid under international law and as a crime against humanity. The party endorsed Amnesty International’s demands of the UK government to: Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer said: […]
7 September 2024 by Paul Corry
The Green Party has adopted new policy at its Manchester Autumn conference calling for a clear regulatory framework that will drive the development and uses of AI in ways that put the interests of people and planet first. This includes the appointment of an Ombudsman to champion the rights of individuals and groups in the […]
Green Party conference in Manchester has voted for a new law to protect people from contaminated land. It has been coined ‘Zane’s Law’ after 7-year-old Zane Gbangbola who died when Hydrogen Cyanide was carried by floodwater from a contaminated landfill site into his home in 2014. The legislation would force all Local Authorities to keep […]
7 September 2024 / 7 September 2024 by Paul Corry
Green Party conference backed detailed policy that will see the party press the new government for much closer relations with the European Union. Green MP Ellie Chowns said: “The conference has made it very clear that people and planet would benefit from much closer relationships between our country and the European Union. “We will be […]
The Greens have voted at their party conference in Manchester for a range of measures to tackle ableism in areas such as housing, transport, education and economic empowerment. These include measures to: Deputy Leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski said: “All disabled people, including those with profound learning disabilities, deserve to have a healthy […]
7 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Prynhawn da cynhadledd. Good afternoon conference. Greetings from Wales. Greetings and congratulations on a truly transformative General Election result that has changed the political landscape. The election of our fantastic four for twenty-four and record-breaking results for Greens across England and Wales shows that the old two-party system is finished. Voters are tired of stale […]
7 September 2024 / 7 September 2024 by Andrew Bell
Wales leader Anthony Slaughter told the Green Party Autumn conference in Manchester that “the old two-party system is finished.” He said: “Voters are tired of stale ‘business as usual’ politics, tired of endless austerity and ever-increasing inequality, tired of the lack of meaningful action to tackle the climate and nature crises. They know that it […]
Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski told the party’s Autumn conference in Manchester that “communicating the truth is always central to what we do.” Polanski told 1,000 members gathered in Manchester that telling the truth about “the future of our NHS, a fairer taxation system or indeed the climate crisis” is essential to encourage people […]
I want to talk about telling the truth. And as we know the truth can be in short supply in politics. But as a party – communicating the truth is always central to what we do. Whether that’s on protecting the future of our NHS, a fairer taxation system or indeed the climate crisis. And […]
