Since his election as a Green councillor, he’s been pushing for the Greens to up their game on economic policy. Part of this has been the release of a detailed new report – Hostage Nation – which seeks to make the case for a new approach to the economy.

LFF spoke to Driscoll at the Green Party’s autumn conference in Brighton about that report and his wider views on how Greens in local government can deliver transformative agendas in the context of more than a decade of austerity.

At the beginning of our conversation, Driscoll explained the underpinning issues the report seeks to address. He told LFF: “Pretty much everyone with any kind of social conscience knows we have serious problems with poverty – we have a housing crisis. Anyone who’s scientific literature knows that we are in a serious era of climate change.

“Yet we keep being told we haven’t got any money to build council houses, we’re going to have to wait for the market to sort us out on clean energy, we can’t build youth clubs or swimming pools anymore. So any idea of public luxury is out.

“And that’s told to us as if it’s scientific fact as if it’s a law of nature. The reality is we’ve got loads of money.”

He went on to argue that the UK government should be able to utilise the wealth that exists in the country to invest in public services and take the measures needed to address the climate emergency. Driscoll said: “There’s £70 billion a year goes in cash ISAs. We’ve got a pension pool of over two trillion in occupational pensions. Only 5 per cent of that is invested in British companies, and yet you get tax relief on it.

“So why don’t we just change it so that you can’t have tax relief for investing in silicon valley or fossil fuel exploration in the Middle East? If you want tax relief from British taxpayers, that money has to be invested in something socially useful for Britain – which is the building of council houses, retrofitting every home.”

He continued: “So if you went street by street and retrofitted every home in Britain, every pound you spend would get 40p back in tax immediately. And you can’t outsource this stuff. A crew of people working down Cedar Avenue in Leeds – that can’t be outsourced to a factory in China. So you crank the jobs, and if you crank the jobs, you’ve lowered the welfare bill.”

Some of the rhetoric that Driscoll uses is similar to that being used by the prime minister Andy Burnham. Burnham has spoken about ending neoliberalism, about bringing more control into the economy, and about not being ‘in hock’ to the bond markets.

What does Driscoll think of the early days of the Burnham government and its direction on the economy? He started his response by questioning the veracity of Labour leaders’ public rhetoric and pledges.

Driscoll told LFF: “I thought Keir Starmer’s 10 pledges were very good. I still think they’re good pledges. My opinion of Keir Starmer is somewhat different”.

He then continued: “How can you say we’ve got to get past this thing of being in hock to the bond markets and then say we will follow the fiscal rules?” before adding: “These are a political fiction not for managing the economy but for managing public opinion. If they’re going to lock themselves in a room and pretend they’re hostages then they’re not getting rid of neoliberalism.”

What should the Green Party do in light of Driscoll’s view that Burnham’s rhetoric doesn’t match reality?

Driscoll told LFF: “We should call it out. But you don’t call it out by saying that’s not ending neoliberalism because then the public will say ‘I don’t know what neoliberalism means’.

“So this is why you say look Andy, are you actually going to build 100,000 council houses every year? Are you going to make sure that everybody is on a living wage not a minimum wage? Anyone who’s serious about reducing the welfare budget has to get serious about structural wealth inequality.”

For the Greens, questions of national economic policy are – for now at least – a question of what concessions they can secure from the government, what they want to offer the electorate, and possibly what they would seek to deliver in the event they end up a partner in government after the next election.

But economic policy on a local level is a different matter entirely. The Greens are in sole or joint administration in dozens of councils across the country. In the context of more than a decade of austerity, rising costs of social care and temporary accommodation, and the reduction of economic levers at their disposal, delivering the kind of radical agenda Driscoll supports is a challenge.

He nonetheless thinks there are opportunities to utilise local government to improve people’s lives.

Driscoll told LFF: “The climate they’re operating in is extremely difficult, because not only is the financial effect of austerity on their services, on their staff extremely difficult, we’ve also stored up a huge amount of problems there. There are more people with mental ill health. There are more people who have been in financial distress for a much longer period of time. So the pressures are greater.”

He went on to say: “So you’ve got to be realistic. You are not going to build a people’s republic anywhere under the current financial system.

“That said, there are things you can do about engaging communities directly. There are things you can do about leaving money in. And there are still substantial budgets that are not procured in a way that either create the best possible jobs, the best environmental outcomes, or the best social outcomes”.

Driscoll would later add: “So it is about coming up with a manifesto and looking at the things that don’t cost a lot of money that at least signal that you’re doing the right things and will make people’s lives better. So it may be that there’s a park where the cafe’s been closed for ages – we’ll find a way to give that lease for peanuts to a local charity and get something out.”

Driscoll then argued that councils should be looking to bring public services back in house. He told LFF: “Perhaps you should be looking at a different procurement framework – if you are one of these councils that’s previously outsourced to Capita and the contract’s coming to an end, how are we actually going to not just roll that over again, how are we going to do some decent insourcing? Those are the kinds of things you can do.”

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The Greens passed a motion which described Zionism as an ethnonationalist political project and a racist ideology. It also called for the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all.

In his resignation statement, Davies made clear that the motion was “merely the final nail in the coffin”, before saying that it is one of three reasons for his departure.

Davies said: “We as a party have always supported Palestinian rights and been clear in our position that the Israeli state is committing a Genocide of the Palestinian people. This motion to me achieves nothing materially to help people in Palestine and by committing us to a single state solution act against one of our 4 pillars of Green Politics of Grassroots Democracy. It feels very imperialistic to me for us in the UK to be telling people in the middle east what their futures should look like. Much in the same way that as a proud Welshman I wouldn’t want people in England telling me what Wales future should look like.”

Alongside this, Davies said that he felt that Wales Green Party and his position as deputy leader were not sufficiently respected by the Green Party of England and Wales, and that the party lacked a “long-term strategy for gaining power”.

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The motion passed by the conference saw the Green Party describe Zionism as an ethnonationalist political project and explicitly endorse the creation of a single Palestinian state with equal rights for all.

In their statement, Palestine Solidarity Campaign said that it “extends its solidarity to the Green Party of England and Wales and its members who are facing a barrage of media smears and abuse following their democratic conference decision to pass the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion.”

The statement also explicitly endorsed a number of the elements of the motion. It read: “The motion supports the call from Palestinian civil society to impose boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel similar to those applied to apartheid South Africa and calls for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners, the de-proscription of Palestine Action and the release of all those currently imprisoned in Britain for nonviolent direct action in support of Palestinian rights – all of which we fully endorse.”

Later in the statement, Palestine Solidarity Campaign made the case for the party adopting an explicitly anti-Zionist position. The group said: “Critics of the Green Party motion have stated that Zionism is nothing more than the desire for self-determination for Jewish people. That is just not true. Zionism as a political project has been used to justify over a century of Palestinian dispossession and continues to underpin Israel’s genocide in Gaza today.”

It continued: “Palestine was never ‘a land without a people.’ Zionism’s founding ideology and political movement entailed the violent colonisation of Palestine and the establishment of a ‘Jewish state’ by removing or eliminating the indigenous Palestinian population from some or all of their homeland. Since its creation, consecutive Israeli governments have enacted a raft of policies that aim to take control of the maximum amount of land with the minimum number of Palestinians, denying their fundamental rights. No other interpretation is consistent with the history and reality of Zionism. Anti-Zionism is our opposition to that project and support for the rights of the Palestinian people. 

“Any political project that relies on ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism and the imposition of a system of apartheid, which Zionism fundamentally does, and which is responsible for genocide, is self-evidently racist. We welcome the decision of Green Party conference to declare this truth.”

However, Palestine Solidarity Campaign stopped short of backing the Green Party’s support for a single Palestinian state. The group said: “PSC is an anti-Zionist organisation. As a solidarity campaign, it is our core aim to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice – to end the systems of oppression that prevent the Palestinian people from realising their inalienable rights, including their right to self-determination and right of return. Our longstanding policy, shaped in dialogue with our Palestinian partners, is that it is for the Palestinian people as a whole, rather than the solidarity movement in Britain, to decide what form Palestinian self-determination should take, but this does not diminish our opposition to Zionism.”

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55 per cent of attendees at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton backed the motion, with 45 per cent voting against it.

That decision has – as you might expect – attracted substantial media attention and public debate.

Criticism of the position has primarily centred around suggestions that it is antisemitic in nature, and that it brands substantial portions of British Jews – two thirds of whom describe themselves as Zionist according to opinion polls – as racist. Proponents of the motion deny this, making the case that the motion refers only to the political ideology of Zionism, that not all Jews are Zionists, and that opposing Zionism is not in itself antisemitic.

Following the passing of the motion, the party’s leadership team and MPs released a statement which read: “As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

“We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation. We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

“And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.”

Since then, the Green Party leader Zack Polanski has released an additional statement. That statement reads in full:

“Antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli state are, and must always be, completely distinct – blurring the line between the two is not only wrong but antisemitic, and makes Jewish people less safe. It’s our role as a movement for justice to protect both the rights of Palestinians and our Jewish communities here in the UK. As leader I will not accept any exclusion, or refusal to engage with anyone, because of the religious or communal body they are part of.

“I take seriously my responsibility to make sure everyone feels safe and welcome in our party. Under my leadership, no-one will be made unwelcome because of their background, their faith, or where they worship. As leader, my role is to bring people together and ensure we are all working in unity for the things we believe in and care about: freedom and safety for all.

“I am proud of our party’s principled position on fighting for freedom and justice for Palestinians.

“In the UK and across the world people have been horrified by the atrocities carried out by the Israeli government in Gaza – with a classroom of children being killed every day.

“Through the Green Party’s unified stance and dedicated pressure, we have begun to shift this government away from its complicity with the Israeli government’s atrocities in Gaza, with the Foreign Secretary now taking the long overdue step of ending trade with illegal settlements.

“When I was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, I was so proud to stand as a Jewish party leader, side by side with my deputy leaders Mothin and Rachel. Together, we exemplify everything this party stands for: we come from different backgrounds, faiths and traditions, but we share our deeply held values of compassion, fairness and equality for all.”

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The interviews

• Natalie Bennett interview: Andy Burnham is ‘kicking electoral reform into the long grass’ with National Commission – Olivia Barber
• Sadiq Khan has overseen people being ‘priced out of London boroughs’ – Green London Assembly member Benali Hamdache interview – Chris Jarvis
• I’m taking a “really hard stance against landlords” – Hackney mayor Zoë Garbett interview – Chris Jarvis
• Caroline Lucas interview: “A lot of policies that Andy Burnham has announced are due to Green pressure.” – Olivia Barber

The motions

• This is the full statement from Green Party MPs and leaders on Zionism is racism motion – Chris Jarvis
• Green Party abandons opposition to nuclear power – Chris Jarvis
• Green Party votes for ‘Zionism is racism’ motion – Chris Jarvis
• Green MPs make last-ditch attempt to stop Zionism is Racism motion – Chris Jarvis
• Green members vote for councils to support BDS in show of solidarity with Palestine – Olivia Barber
• Green Party votes to endorse Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act – Chris Jarvis
• Green Party conference votes for new health policy to safeguard the NHS “against undue commercial influence” – Chris Jarvis
• Green Party backs policy to cut amount of animal farming in half – Chris Javis
• The Zionism is Racism motion has left the Greens with no good options – Lev Saul
• Rachel Millward “certainly wouldn’t” vote for unamended Zionism is Racism motion – Chris Jarvis
• The media is using the ‘Zionism is Racism’ conference motion to attack the Green Party, members say – Olivia Barber
• Will Green Party members vote to call Zionism racism? – Chris Jarvis

The speeches

• Mothin Ali calls for government to declare national emergency on racism and blasts Reform’s Suella Braverman in conference speech – Olivia Barber
• Green Party calls on government to nationalise water companies with no compensation for shareholders – Olivia Barber
• Water campaigners back Green Party’s ‘no-compensation’ public ownership plan for water firms – Chris Jarvis
• “Inspirational” and “everyone loved it” – Green Party members react to Zack Polanski’s conference speech – Chris Jarvis
• Wales Green Party leader celebrates “historic breakthrough” in Senedd election in message to Green Party conference – Chris Jarvis
• Zack Polanski calls on Labour to introduce three-year cap on private rent rises in conference speech – Olivia Barber

The rest

• Exclusive: LGBT Greens protest Green Party women’s group platforming of gender-critical speaker at conference event – Olivia Barber
• Equity launches network of local councillors to support arts and entertainment at Green Party conference – Chris Jarvis
• Demonstrators at conference rally against anti-Zionism have ‘extremist views’, says Green member – Olivia Barber
• ‘Labour made active decision to tax income rather than take on the richest in this country’, Faiza Shaheen says – Olivia Barber
• Polling guru John Curtice says it will be ‘substantial challenge’ for Greens to win Holborn and St Pancras amid Burnham bounce – Olivia Barber
• Green Party must ‘up its game’ on economic policy, Jamie Driscoll says – Chris Jarvis

The stuff that’s still to come

We’re not quite done yet! We’ve still got one more interview to publish – with former North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll. 

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The full statement reads: “As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

“We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation. We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

“And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.”

The statement is signed by:

• Zack Polanski (Green Party leader)
• Rachel Maskell (Green Party deputy leader)
• Mothin Ali (Green Party deputy leader)
• Sian Berry MP
• Ellie Chowns MP
• Carla Denyer MP
• Adrian Ramsay MP
• Hannah Spencer MP

A separate statement was also released by a Green Party spokesperson following the vote. It read: “Speaking following the motion passing, a Green Party spokesperson said: “This has been a serious and deeply felt debate within our membership. Our members value the ability to bring forward and decide party policy, and conference has now made its decision.

“The Green Party is an anti-racist party and has consistently opposed the illegal occupation of both Palestinian and Syrian land, called for an end to arms sales to the Israeli government and spoken out fearlessly about the devastating situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Those positions remain central to our approach. So too does our deeply held commitment to equality, justice and human rights for all and opposition to racism in all its forms.”

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Party members voted for a motion at the party’s conference which amended the party’s policy so as to describe nuclear fission as a form of ‘low-carbon electricity generation’. It also removed nuclear power from the list of electricity generation sources that the Green Party would seek to ‘phase out’. Instead, the party says it now only seeks to phase out fossil fuels.

The Green Party has long opposed nuclear power, instead favouring an approach to decarbonisation which relies on a rapid and overwhelming shift to renewable energy.

The party’s previous policy stated “Other industries can never be sustainable and must be phased out, for example, the nuclear industry.”

That wording has been changed, so it now refers to fossil fuels instead of nuclear.

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The motion begins with a definition of Zionism: “a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population.”

It then continues by arguing: “The real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between Jews of different ethnicities in Palestine.”

Alongside this, the motion commits the Green Party to supporting a ‘one-state solution’. The motion will see the Greens support: “the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.”

In advance of the conference, the motion’s proposer Lubna Speitan told LFF: “This motion is merely a means of identifying the root cause of the problem, which is the racist ideology of Zionism – a settler colonial ideology – and its practice, which is resulting now in our erasure. Under Israel, Palestinians do not have rights. There is no such thing as equal rights under Israel’s boot. What we are asking for is for our mere basic human rights to be acknowledged.”

The motion has been highly contentious within the Green Party. In advance of the motion being debated, three Green MPs released public statements seeking to stop it from passing.

The party’s leadership were divided on the motion, with deputy leader Mothin Ali supporting it, but the party’s other deputy leader Rachel Millward, alongside leader Zack Polanski publicly calling for the motion to be amended in order to protect Jewish members from facing disciplinary action for being members of synagogues that are affiliated to Zionist denominations and to remove the commitment to a one-state solution.

The main amendment to remove the commitment to a one-state solution was rejected with 742 votes against and 695 in favour of those attending the conference either in person or remotely. However, the amendment went to a ‘card vote’ which means that members who aren’t able to attend conference and have given their proxy vote to another member who is able to attend are also able to participate in the vote. On the card vote, there were 920 votes against, and 821 in favour.

The amendment designed to explicitly state that the motion would be used to to take disciplinary action for membership of Jewish organisations that describe themselves as Zionist was defeated by 1,026 votes to 684 on a card vote. That amendment sought to add text into the motion which read: “This motion shall not be used to pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions, such as synagogues, community centres or denominational groups, that describe themselves as Zionist or used to discipline or sanction Jewish members for expressing views that would be non sanctionable if expressed by non Jewish members such as (such as support for a binational state, or two state solution).”

Opponents of the amendment argued that it was unnecessary, as the motion did not relate to disciplinary processes, and therefore could not be used to discipline members.

Green Party MP Ellie Chowns – who is the party’s foreign affairs spokesperson in the House of Commons – spoke against the motion in the debate, as did the anti-Brexit campaigner Femi Oluwole and the former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.

Mothin Ali was the most high profile person within the party to speak in favour of the motion.

Speaking following the motion passing, a Green Party spokesperson said: “This has been a serious and deeply felt debate within our membership. Our members value the ability to bring forward and decide party policy, and conference has now made its decision.

“The Green Party is an anti-racist party and has consistently opposed the illegal occupation of both Palestinian and Syrian land, called for an end to arms sales to the Israeli government and spoken out fearlessly about the devastating situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Those positions remain central to our approach. So too does our deeply held commitment to equality, justice and human rights for all and opposition to racism in all its forms.”

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Baroness Bennett said a Royal Commission might be necessary to ensure support for electoral reform within the Labour Party, but that it will delay electoral reform for the country.

She said the country needs PR before the next election, adding: “We are now in political crisis” due to the “enormous” level of distrust in politics in the UK. 

Burnham has ruled out changing the voting system before the next election, on the basis that the pledge wasn’t included in Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto.

“We have a Royal Commission and it drags on and we’re here at the next election, and then after the next election, who knows what’s happened,” she said.

The Green peer compared establishing a National Commission to launching an inquiry. “We’ve created an inquiry, put it in that context, how many things have we kicked into the long grass by doing that over the years. In the last century there must be hundreds.”

Bennett said she couldn’t see a national commission on voting reform taking less than 18 months, adding “and that’s at an absolute minimum”.  

“That’s really getting your skates on, appointing people, resourcing it incredibly well, having someone who has the will to operate really really quickly,” she said.

Bennett added that it would likely take two years, by which point it will be the next election. 

Bennett told LFF that she still backs abolishing the House of Lords and making the chamber fully elected, however, she is in favour of the government prioritising changing the voting system first.

“I think my focus would be, because it’s the most important thing, to get PR in the Commons,” she said.

“If you did that, it does make the House of Lords less important in that there would be a very powerful moral force that say the Lords doesn’t overturn what people were elected on,” Bennett added.

Asked about how Burnham’s government is doing so far, Bennett said: “He’s said some vaguely leftist popular things, he hasn’t delivered any of them.”

She backed Polanski’s message in his speech “Vote Green and move the Labour Party”, and said that the Green Party should be in the next government.

A YouGov MRP poll last month indicated that if a general election were held tomorrow, there would be a hung Parliament, with Labour estimated to win 241 seats. 

Bennett said that the Greens would consider entering a coalition with Labour, “If it was needed to stop Reform and the Tories, we would certainly do whatever we could.”

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Green Party Women organised an event at conference this morning about pelvic health, with physiotherapist and gender critical activist Elaine Miller as keynote speaker. 

While the session was underway, a group of around 15 Green Party members from groups including LGBTIQA+ Greens and Greens Organise silently entered the room holding a long trans banner. 

The protest comes after another gender-critical group, Green Women’s Declaration, were banned from attending this year’s Green Party Conference. 

A woman from Green Party Women, who called herself Babs, walked over to the group and told them to leave.

She could be heard saying to the protesters: “You are right-wing authoritarians and you need to get the f*** out.”

Babs also shouted: “Men men men.”

She later told LFF that the protesters were “authoritarians” because “they’ve come into a women’s space to cause trouble and they’re trying to impose their views on us”.

Reade Layton, a member of the Trans Greens committee, said that the group was protesting because Miller is “a very loud TERF [Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist]”. 

During a Gender Recognition Reform debate in the Scottish Parliament, Miller lifted her skirt and flashed MSPs, revealing what appeared to be fake pubic hair.

The bill sought to lower the age limit for applications for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16.

Miller, who opposed the bill, staged the protest in the public gallery in December 2023, saying: “If you will not be decent, then I will be indecent.”

Layton said: “We have no problem with the topic of the event, we have an issue with the group platforming Elaine Miller.”

Dylan Lewis-Creser, a member of the Green Party Executive, called women’s pelvic health “a very important topic”, adding “we support all discussions on women’s health, but we shouldn’t be platforming people like Elaine Miller”.

Lewis-Creser said that “They’re framing it as a women’s rights issue but it’s just about demeaning trans people and creating a more hostile environment.”

Hannah Collison, a Green member in Sheffield, said that “The Green Party is an inclusive space and makes a point of including all trans people in that inclusive space.”

She said that, by contrast, Green Party Women “are known to be transphobic and exclusionary”. 

Collison alleged that a member of Green Party Women pushed her and shouted at her. 

She said that the group had planned to walk silently to the front of the room with the banner and then leave, but that they were blocked from passing. 

Security removed the protesters from the meeting, citing safety grounds.

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