Greens call for emergency food security summit as Ukraine invasion hits ‘breadbasket of Europe’
11 March 2022
* A plan to address the underlying causes of food poverty
* Emergency investment in sustainable food production to increase domestic supply
* Transform farming to help tackle the climate and ecological emergency
* Halve the UK’s 10 million tons of food waste
With the UN World Food...Read More »
Greens condemn two main parties for compassion failure over Ukrainian refugees
10 March 2022
- ‘Neither Conservatives nor Labour are stepping up to the level required in this humanitarian crisis.’
Migration and Refugee Support Spokesperson Benali Hamdache said,
‘Priti Patel is making our country look cruel and incompetent in the face of the humanitarian disaster unfolding across our continent. But Labour’s failure to...Read More »
Green response to announcement UK will phase out Russian oil imports
8 March 2022
Responding to the announcement from Boris Johnson that the UK is to phase out oil imports from Russia by the end of this year [1], co-leader Carla Denyer said:
“The decision by the UK government to phase out oil imports and the European Commission to cut...Read More »
Climate sceptic MPs are helping to fuel Putin’s war machine, Greens warn
7 March 2022
The Green Party has warned the Prime Minister that there is no such thing as the “climate change pass” that he is arguing for, because climate change doesn’t wait for politics [1]. The party says that only by going further and faster on climate action will...Read More »
Greens vow to repeal ‘authoritarian’ Police and Crime Bill
6 March 2022
- Greens commit to uphold the values of peaceful protest and direct action
- Jenny Jones slams government as hypocrites for condemning Russian governments’ mass arrest of peaceful protestors, “while passing laws that allow them to do the same in this country.”
Green Party members have today voted to support...Read More »