The stats behind the Green breakthrough at the 2024 election
In May 2015, the Green Party achieved their best result up to that point. Yet even though its aggregate vote rose overall, the party’s electoral coalition remained much as it…
After six years in Labour, I’ve now re-joined the Green Party
Seven years ago this month, I made the difficult decision to leave the Green Party and join Labour. Having spent five years active in the Greens, I switched parties in…
Elections of 2016: a statistical look ahead
Photo: Wikimedia So, it’s 2016. For followers of British politics, it will be a crowded year. In May, we have significant electoral contests in Scotland, Wales, London and Northern Ireland,…
Yes, an electoral pact would benefit Labour and the Greens
Once again, talk of a Green-Labour electoral pact has come back into the public eye, thanks to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn daring to not express outright hatred for Caroline Lucas,…
Ell Folan’s speech on the new Green philisophical basis
editors note - there has been some conversation about the change to the Green Party's philisophical basis at this year's Spring Conference which put social justice central. Here is the…
A dog’s dinner?
In publishing his proposals for Lords Reform, our Deputy PM invited constructive criticism of the proposals. He didn’t get it. Rather, he got a chorus of abuse from both the…