She served as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Shahrar Ali from 2014 to 2016. She was re-elected in September 2016,once again in September 2018 and then again in September 2020. Womack stood as her party's lead candidate in the South Wales East region in the 2021 Senedd election;she was not elected.[2] Womack also stood on a joint ticket with Tamsin Omond in the 2021 Green Party leadership election,in which they finished in second place of five candidates vying for the party's leadership.
She was elected deputy leader of the Green Party in September 2014,delivering her first speech in the role at the party's conference on 6 September.[10] Having been elected at the age of 29,Womack is the youngest deputy leader of any political party in the UK.[11]
Womack's re-election as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales was announced at the party conference in early September 2016. She served a second two-year term.[14]
In August 2016,she criticised Byron Hamburgers after they worked with the Home Office to call their London workers to a fake Health and Safety briefing,whereat immigration officials present at the venue arrested several employees,deporting 35 for immigration offences. Womack was quoted as saying "It's about the family and friends of people who are left behind as well. You don't need to be pro-migration to realise that employing people,having them pay tax and contribute to the company for years and then turn them over to authorities without any responsibility for the chaos caused is the wrong thing to do".[16]
In March 2017,Womack reported the Daily Mail newspaper to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over a front page photo of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon with the caption "Never mind Brexit,who won Legs-it". In her submission she said:"This headline and the further derogatory comments inside the paper would not have even been considered,let alone published,if the two politicians in question had been men".[17]
Womack was again re-elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2018.[18]
In February 2019,it was announced that Womack would be the Wales Green Party candidate in the 2019 Newport West by-election,[20] a position she had nominally been selected for in November 2018.[21] The by-election was held on 4 April 2019 and Womack finished in sixth place in a field of 11 candidates,with 924 votes (3.9% of the total votes cast).[22]
In August 2019,Womack was again nominated by the Wales Green Party as the candidate for Newport West in a prospective snap general election.[23] Womack stood in the 2019 general election. She again came in sixth place,but this time out of a field of six candidates.[24] She achieved a smaller share of the vote compared to the by-election,receiving 2.1% of the total votes cast.
In June 2020,Womack announced her intention to stand again as deputy leader.[25] On 9 September 2020,it was announced that she had been re-elected by party members for a fourth term.[26]
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