Amelia Womack celebrates Green Party electoral success in farewell speech at Green Party conference
‘In just a few years, we have gone from a small party with a few thousand members to a mass movement of tens of thousands’
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‘We are going to deliver rent controls in this session of parliament’ – Ross Greer MSP
Left Foot Forward spoke to Ross Greer MSP at the Green Party of England and Wales conference
Green deputy leader uses conference speech to call out Keir Starmer on PR
Zack Polanski has called on Keir Starmer to listen to his own party members on proportional representation
Under 30s are a ‘generation of insecurity’, Green Party conference told
The co-chairs of the Green Party’s youth wing told the conference young people are facing ‘insecure work, insecure housing, insecure incomes and insecure futures’.
Privatisation has been an ‘acute and painful failure’, Green co-leaders tell party conference
The Green Party has called for public ownership of water, energy and rail
Climate campaigners threaten legal action over lifting of fracking ban
Greenpeace has hit out at the government’s actions, condemning them as “unlawful.” Meanwhile, Scotland confirms its policy on fracking is not changing.
Government faces backlash over plans to ditch proposed bans on fur and foie gras imports
“It’s illegal to produce fur in the UK and it’s illegal to produce foie gras. We have to address the contradiction that if it’s too cruel to be produced here in the UK it’s too cruel to import it.”
Truss sacks Zac Goldsmith as environment minister, sparking animal welfare and climate action concerns
The move has raised further fears about the PM’s commitment to tackling climate change.
Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week
As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’
Truss appoints ‘climate dinosaur’ Rees-Mogg as new energy chief
To the dismay of climate campaigners, the former Brexit opportunities minister, who has a long record of climate denialism, is to oversee the UK’s energy and net zero strategy.