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Natalie Bennett

Baroness Natalie Bennett is a Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward, and the former leader of the Green Party of England & Wales.
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The government is pushing GMO deregulation at breakneck speed

Natalie Bennett
25 January, 2023

‘The science is still far too uncertain, and what we know has not been properly considered or understood, by the government, or by parliament.’

Natalie Bennett: Today’s Energy Bill debate in the Lords is more important than ever

Natalie Bennett
16 January, 2023

The element of the Energy Bill that has got the most positive attention, and rightly so, has been amendments aiming to insert into the bill support for community energy schemes

A photo of Green MEPs and MPs on a visit to Irpin

What a small Ukrainian city can teach us about how to build thriving communities

Natalie Bennett
23 November, 2022

This is an important lesson about surviving adversity, building local communities and thriving.

COP26

Natalie Bennett: Why COP27 must not abandon the 1.5C climate target

Natalie Bennett
14 November, 2022

The claim “it is too late for 1.5 degrees” is simply wrong

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Why are the public being made to pay for excessive corporate energy use?

Natalie Bennett
25 October, 2022

‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’

Public health

Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue

Natalie Bennett
22 September, 2022

‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’

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The four day week: Ending a century of economic ‘maladjustment’

Natalie Bennett
5 September, 2022

“The four-day week gives everyone the gift, the resource, the power, of time, of choice”

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The UK needs a ‘Just Transition Bank’ – not another bank striving for ‘growth’

Natalie Bennett
14 June, 2022

‘No point in using bank funds to make the rich richer. No point in building new roads, or investing in fossil fuel when the carbon bubble looms every larger. Every point is focusing resources on projects that deliver for people and planet.’

COP26

Natalie Bennett: The Queen’s Speech was devoid of ideas on both the economy and environment

Natalie Bennett
12 May, 2022

The emptiness of the government’s “programme”, a grab bag of philosophically incoherent and half-baked ideas, has been widely noted.

Voting Ballot Box

Why we need to introduce automatic voter registration

Natalie Bennett
21 March, 2022

‘Individual electoral registration was introduced in 2014. It cleaned up the rolls to a degree, but also cleaned them out of millions who should have been there.’

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