Greens call for rail fare freeze as Government announces below inflationary fare rise
15 August 2023
Following the government announcing it plans to increase rail fares by less than the rate of inflation and will delay fare increases until March 2024, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has called on the government to go further and freeze rail fares for at least the next...Read More »
Greens call for Inglorious 12th to be cancelled after avian influenza discovery
11 August 2023
The Green Party has called for grouse shooting season which is due to begin tomorrow (August 12), on what is known as the Inglorious 12th, to be cancelled following reports of avian influenza in red grouse in Scotland [1].
Green peer Natalie Bennett has called for all...Read More »
Villiers Shell shareholding shows government failing to tackle climate crisis
11 August 2023
Reacting to the revelation that former Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers had a substantial shareholding in oil giant Shell during her time in the Cabinet [1], Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay said:
“Of course it’s unacceptable that the former Secretary of State didn’t register the shares when her holding...Read More »
Greens call for “Welcome Refugees Week” as Tories announce further clamp down on asylum seekers
7 August 2023
In response to the government’s so-called “small boats week,” the Green party has called instead for a “Welcome Refugees Week”. As 500 asylum seekers are set to be housed on a barge off the Dorset coast and the government announces steep increases in fines for landlords...Read More »
Green Party announces Earth Overshoot action plan
2 August 2023
Today marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. However, the UK’s overshoot day has already passed – it fell on19th May [1]. In a week when the...Read More »