The Green Party of England and Wales 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 four representatives in the House of Commons and two in the House of Lords,in addition to over 800 councillors at the local government level and three members of the London Assembly.
Keith Richard Taylor was a Green Party of England and Wales politician who was MEP for South East England from 2010 to 2019 and was the Party's animal rights spokesperson until his retirement in 2019. He was one of the two Principal Speakers of the party from August 2004 to November 2006.
East Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Claire Coutinho,a Conservative who formerly served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. The seat covers an affluent area in the English county of Surrey.
Streatham was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Vauxhall was a constituency in London. It was represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by members of the Labour Party for the whole of its creation from 1950 until its abolition for the 2024 general election.
London was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1999 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
The region of Greater London,including the City of London,is divided into 75 parliamentary constituencies which are sub-classified as borough constituencies,affecting the type of electoral officer and level of expenses permitted. Since the general election of July 2024,59 are represented by Labour MPs,9 by Conservative MPs,6 by Liberal Democrat MPs,and 1 by an independent MP.
Lambeth London Borough Council is elected every four years.
Jonathan Charles Bartley is a British politician who was a co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales,a position he shared with Caroline Lucas from 2016 to 2018,and then,from 2018 to 2021,with Siân Berry. He was the Green Party's national Work and Pensions spokesperson and the party's Parliamentary candidate for Streatham in the 2015 general election. He was the Unite to Remain candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood at the 2019 general election.
Lambeth London Borough Council,which styles itself Lambeth Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of the 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2006. The council meets at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton and has its main offices at the nearby Civic Centre.
The Green Party of England and Wales has its roots in the PEOPLE Party started in Coventry in 1972/3 by four professional friends. It then changed its name to the more descriptive Ecology Party in 1975,and to the Green Party ten years later. In the 1990s,the Scottish and Northern Ireland wings of the Green Party in the United Kingdom decided to separate amicably from the party in England and Wales,to form the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland. The Wales Green Party became an autonomous regional party and remained within the new Green Party of England and Wales.
Steven Mark Ward Reed is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party,he is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham and Croydon North,formerly Croydon North since 2012.
On 29 November 2012,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Croydon North in the London Borough of Croydon. The by-election was caused by the death of its Member of Parliament Malcolm Wicks. It took place on the same day as by-elections in Middlesbrough and Rotherham. The by-election was won by Steve Reed of the Labour Party.
Alexandra Louise Rosenfield Phillips is a British politician. She served as a Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 to 2020. She was Mayor of Brighton and Hove from May 2019 to May 2020;the youngest person to hold the office. Phillips was a Brighton and Hove City councillor between 2009 and 2023.
Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clapham and Brixton Hill,previously Streatham,since 2019. In 2020,she was briefly Shadow Minister for Immigration. She chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for African Reparations.
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit.
The 2021 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election was held from August to September 2021 to select a new leader or leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales. It was triggered by Jonathan Bartley's announcement on 5 July 2021 that he would be standing down as party co-leader. Bartley had been co-leader of the party since 2016,initially serving with the party's Member of Parliament (MP) Caroline Lucas. Sian Berry,who had served as co-leader with Bartley since 2018,did not seek re-election with a new co-leader or by herself.
The 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of Lambeth London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
Streatham and Croydon North is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is currently represented by Steve Reed of the Labour and Co-operative Party,who currently serves as Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs under the government of Keir Starmer.
