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4 October 2019 I want to start by saying thank you. You know, we don’t hear it often enough. Thank you to all the leaflet deliverers and the door knockers. The activists and councillors. The food preparers and the motion writers (well most of them). The committee members and working groups. The staff and volunteers. You are the backbone of...

Green Party members are this morning celebrating the appointment of former leader Natalie Bennett to the House of Lords. Green Party co-leader Sian Berry said: “This is recognition of the views of the two million Green voters in this year’s European elections, the huge numbers who backed us in the council elections, and the 1.1 million votes we won when...

Caroline Lucas, co-chair of the APPG on Limits to Growth has secured a debate to challenge HM Treasury over the inherent tension between our current economic model—dependent on relentless economic growth—and environmental limits: “The endless pursuit of growing consumption and increased gross domestic product (GDP) have been the Holy Grail of economists for decades and lead us all to fixate on a number...