Press Releases
19 July 2024 / 19 July 2024 by Paul Corry
Green Party MP for North Herefordshire, Ellie Chowns said: “Lifting the ban on UK funding for the United Nations aid agency for Palestine (UNRWA) is welcome. It is vital that the UN is now allowed full access to Gaza and the Occupied Territories to carry out its humanitarian work. The UK government has an important […]
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19 July 2024 by Paul Corry
Responding to record sentences for environmental protests, Green MP Sian Berry said: “These sentences feel like a hangover from the last government’s obsession with punishing disruptive but non-violent, peaceful protests. They should be appealed as wholly out of line with the disruption caused. “There is, however, a wider challenge for the Labour government. […]
18 July 2024 by Paul Corry
Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire said: “Our thoughts today are with the families of the over 230,000 people who have died from Covid-19, the key workers who risked their lives to keep the country going and countless others who had to make terrible sacrifices when Covid-19 first struck. “As this report lays bare the awful […]
Reacting to the King’s Speech today, Adrian Ramsay MP said: “Labour promised change but today it has fallen short of the urgent transformative programme we need, and which the Government has the power to deliver. “Our four Green MPs, and the nearly two million people who voted Green in the election, want to see a […]
17 July 2024 / 17 July 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the news that there will be no dedicated disability minister in government, Mags Lewis, Green Party Spokesperson for Disability said, “Whilst it is to be welcomed that the Government finally announced the new Disability Minister late last week, it is a huge concern to see the role has been added to, or amalgamated […]
The Green Party is today arguing that hundreds of thousands of children can be lifted out of poverty if Labour committed to equalising capital gains tax to pay to scrap the two-child benefit cap. The four newly elected Green MPs, will be proposing a reasoned amendment to the King’s Speech that includes the scrapping of […]
16 July 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the resignation of England Manager, Gareth Southgate, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, took to X (formerly Twitter) to say: “Gareth Southgate has modelled a new form of national leadership that puts kindness and compassion at the heart of all we do. His legacy will be one not only of extraordinary sporting achievements having secured […]
Responding to the news that the Welsh First Minister, Vaughan Gething, has resigned, Wales Green Party Leader, Anthony Slaughter said, “After over three months of chaos at the heart of Welsh Government the news that Vaughan Gething has finally resigned following the resignation of four ministers this morning is to be welcomed, but questions must be asked […]
12 July 2024 / 12 July 2024 by Andrew Bell
Following the tragic death of four more people in the channel, Green Party Migration and Refugee Spokesperson, Benali Hamdache, said: “The loss of life is a tragedy and acts as stark reminder why we need safe and legal routes for those seeking asylum. “Today The Green Party is reiterating our call to reinstate the Dubs […]
11 July 2024 by Andrew Bell
In the wake of unfounded reports that Ed Miliband will announce a ban on new drilling in the North Sea [1], co-leader and MP for Bristol Central, Carla Denyer, has urged the energy secretary to do just that, and “send a clear signal to the fossil fuel industry that they have no future in the […]