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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.
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.’

Zane's law

To combat the threats posed by land contamination to building safety we need Zane’s Law

Natalie Bennett
3 March, 2022

‘The initial draft of Zane’s Law is simple. It demands that local authorities assess the risk posed by land contamination to building safety.’

Care sector

How we can reverse the financialisation of the care sector

Natalie Bennett
4 February, 2022

The care sector is only one example of how financialisation – the turning of society to serve finance, rather than seeing finance serve society is a leader, in the wrong direction

Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons

Boris Johnson is the shameful product of a rotten political system

Natalie Bennett
26 January, 2022

‘Why does the country have such a clearly inappropriate man as Prime Minister, one who’s making us an international laughing stock and leaving a long-term legacy of disastrous laws and regulations inadequately administered, and a demoralised, deeply damaged civil service?’

Protest bill

Natalie Bennett: The policing bill represents the greatest attack on peaceful dissent in living memory

Natalie Bennett
17 January, 2022

‘The government is trying to take away people’s agency and power, but there’s a growing determination – and organisation – determined not to let that happen’.

Clean air

Clean air – we need it, urgently, inside buildings, as well as outside

Natalie Bennett
7 January, 2022

“Proper ventilation “can reduce airborne risks by up to 70% compared to poor ventilation”.

Local councils and net zero

Natalie Bennett: Reparations need to be guaranteed at the COP26 climate talks

Natalie Bennett
10 November, 2021

‘Reparations – partly but certainly not only in the form of “loss and damage” – are essential, and need to be guaranteed at this COP climate talks’

Young people COP26

Natalie Bennett: Young people must be given not just a voice, but power, at COP26

Natalie Bennett
2 November, 2021

‘Seventy-eight-year-old Joe Biden and 59-year-old Boris Johnson are typical at the COP26 climate talks, where the average age of participants is over 60’

Young people COP26

Why the inclusion of climate and nature priorities in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill is a sign of progress

Natalie Bennett
12 October, 2021

‘The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was slightly unusual in that it started its life in the House of Lords.’

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