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Green MP Ellie Chowns urges Foreign Secretary to end UK complicity in war crimes
Green MP and leader of the Parliamentary Green Party Dr Ellie Chowns has written to newly appointed Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband urging the UK Government to take genuine action...
Increased mayoral powers “the very opposite of devolution” say Greens
Responding to news that mayors across England are to be given new powers to overrule local councils on some planning decisions, leader of the Green Group at the Local Government...
newly released video accuses big banks and Labour government of ‘robbing your favourite local businesses’
Video release comes as Greens call for windfall tax on the profits of big banks to help more than a million small and medium businesses Zack Polanski on X: “A windfall tax on the...
Greens announce windfall tax on the profits of big banks to help more than a million small and medium businesses
In a drive to end rip-off Britain, the Green Party has announced it would levy a 38% windfall tax on domestic profits above £800m for the UK’s biggest banks, to raise at least...
Green Party Deputy Leader Mothin Ali visits Stourbridge wildfire victims and calls for measures to mitigate climate collapse
On Saturday Green Party Deputy Leader Councillor Mothin Ali visited residents in Stourbridge, West Midlands who have this week been impacted by severe wildfires. With parts of...
Burnham hears Polanski call for COBR meeting: now we need concrete action
The Prime Minister Andy Burnham has finally listened to the call by Green Party leader Zack Polanski to hold a meeting of the government’s emergency COBR committee to discuss the...
Zack Polanski accuses Labour of ‘gross negligence’ for its failure to act over the heatwave crisis as the Government rejects his call to convene COBR
As the consultation on Jackdaw, a major North sea oil and gas project ends, the Green Party leader calls out Prime Minister Burnham’s ‘weasel words’ on approval of more North Sea...
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
Extreme weather is the new normal. It threatens our safety.It threatens our food and water security.It threatens our way of life. Today, we are demanding three actions the...
Zack Polanski’s ‘reality check’ to the Prime Minister: act now on extreme heat emergency
At a press conference today, Zack Polanski delivered a ‘reality check’ to the Prime Minister as he sounded the alarm on the emergency of extreme heat and outlined three immediate...
Government creating a ‘false choice’ on procurement, say Greens
Commenting on government plans to overhaul procurement rules by replacing requirements for companies to demonstrate their environmental and social value with a stronger focus on...
Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat
Polanski calls for financial support for homes to keep cool, and free cool spaces in every community Says extreme weather poses threats to safety, food and water supply, and our...
Early release can’t solve prison overcrowding, we need system change, say Greens
Responding to the government’s prisoner early release policy, Green Party peer Jenny Jones said: “Early release cannot solve the overcrowding crisis in our prisons. We need whole...
Greens set out key demands to tackle the “the crisis facing local government”
Green Council Leaders have today written to the Prime Minister and Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government setting out “the crisis...
29/07/26: HSRA Motion to Council
The details on our motion to council are: 2 – Mover Councillor Dodd (Green Party) This Council notes: According to recent, publicly available data from Local Data...
Burnham must work with Greens to fix social care
Commenting on the decision to exclude the Green Party from today’s cross-party meeting on adult social care, Dr Ellie Chowns MP, leader of the Parliamentary Green Party and...
Greens: We need full fat, not semi skimmed devolution to solve the housing and cost of living crisis
As the campaign for the Greater Manchester mayoralty draws to a close, Green candidate Geraldine Coggins has said that if she wins on Thursday, she will campaign tirelessly as...
Zack Polanski joins calls for banks making ‘eye watering’ profits to help families with cost of living
Commenting after Barclays bank’s quarterly profit announcement of £3.3 billion – up 31% from last year – Green Party leader Zack Polanski said we should be asking banks to pay a...
Green Mayor would join London councils in reviewing role of Police in immigration raids
Greater Manchester Green mayoral candidate Geraldine Coggins will announce today (Tuesday 28 July) that she would join Green-led London councils in Lambeth and Lewisham in...
GREEN MAYOR CANDIDATE CALLS FOR AI DEBATE AND PROTECTIONS
Greater Manchester Green Mayor candidate Geraldine Coggins is calling for “an end to the folly of rushing headlong into AI development without public debate...
“Is he willing to take on vested interests?”: From Westminster to Greater Manchester, Greens challenge Burnham in first week as PM
The UK has a new Prime Minister. But from continuity cabinet appointments, to standard Starmer policy positions, Burnham’s first week on the job has many asking: is this change,...
TWIN GREATER MANCHESTER WITH PALESTINIAN CITY SAYS GREEN MAYOR
The Green Party’s Greater Manchester mayoral candidate Geraldine Coggins will announce today (Friday 24 July) that she will seek to twin her city-region with the Palestinian city...
Greens react to £2 single bus fare cap announcement
In response to the single fare bus cap announced by Andy Burnham, a Green Party spokesperson said: “We’ve now gone full circle – we are heading back to the £2 cap introduced by...
Greens welcome Defence Secretary Streeting’s comments on Israeli war crimes
In a letter to the new Defence Secretary, Green MP Dr Ellie Chowns, has called on Wes Streeting to work with counterparts in the Foreign Office and the Department for Business...
Zack Polanski: We will judge Andy Burnham on whether he provides solutions to the affordability crisis, the inequality crisis and the climate crisis
Reacting to Andy Burnham’s first speech as Prime Minister, Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said: “The Green Party wishes the new Prime Minister well. There is an affordability...