Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr; Cornish: Parti Gwer Pow Sows ha Kembra; often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since October 2021, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay have served as the party's co-leaders. The party currently has one representative in the House of Commons and two in the House of Lords, in addition to over 700 councillors at the local government level and three members of the London Assembly.

Green Party of England and Wales
AbbreviationGPEW
Co-leadersCarla Denyer
Adrian Ramsay
Deputy LeaderZack Polanski
ChairJon Nott
FoundedJuly 1990 (1990-07)
Preceded byGreen Party (UK)
HeadquartersPO Box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Youth wingYoung Greens of England and Wales
LGBT wingLGBTIQA+ Greens
Membership (December 2022) 53,126
IdeologyGreen politics
Progressivism
Factions:
Eco-socialism
Political positionLeft-wing
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
International affiliationGlobal Greens
Colours
  •   Green
Devolved branchesWales Green Party
London Green Party
House of Commons
1 / 573
House of Lords
2 / 790
London Assembly
3 / 25
Senedd
0 / 60
Local government in England and Wales
744 / 17,546
Directly elected mayors
0 / 25
Police and crime commissioners
0 / 39
Website
greenparty.org.uk
  • Politics of the United Kingdom
  • Political parties
  • Elections

The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation. It takes a progressive approach to social policies such as civil liberties, animal rights, LGBT rights, and drug policy reform. The party also believes strongly in non-violence, universal basic income, a living wage, and democratic participation. It is split into various regional divisions, including the semi-autonomous Wales Green Party, and is internationally affiliated with the Global Greens and the European Green Party.

Alongside the Scottish Greens and the Green Party Northern Ireland, the party was established in 1990 through the division of the pre-existing Green Party, which had initially been established as the PEOPLE Party in 1973. The party went through centralising reforms spearheaded by the Green 2000 group in early 1990, and also sought to emphasise growth in local governance, doing so throughout 1990. In 2010, the party gained its first member of Parliament in its then-leader Caroline Lucas. As the party's support is spread out across the UK, and is rarely found in electorally significant clusters, the party holds only one seat in the House of Commons. The Green Party supports an abolition of the UK's first-past-the-post voting system, and instead supports proportional representation, which would grant the party a share of seats in Parliament based on its national vote share.

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