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3 July 2024 / 3 July 2024 by Colin Boyle
Cllr Areeq Chowdhury, who has represented Canning Town North ward since May 2022, has left Labour to join the Green Party. Cllr Chowdhury said his decision to leave Labour for the Green Party is “due to three key reasons – Palestine, anti-racism, and integrity”. Cllr Chowdhury said: “I believe strongly in the need to oppose […]
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8 June 2024 / 13 June 2024 by Colin Boyle
The London Green Party is proud to announce that we are confirmed as standing candidates in all 75 London constituencies for the General Election on 4th July. This comprehensive participation underscores our commitment to offering real hope and real change for the future of London. By fielding candidates across the city, we aim to provide […]
16 April 2024 / 17 April 2024 by London Green Party
Watch the full debate at: https://www.itv.com/news/london/2024-04-16/the-london-debate-mayoral-candidates-go-head-to-head-to-win-your-vote Snippet from X below:
8 April 2024 / 16 April 2024 by London Green Party
Green Party launches its London Manifesto in Walthamstow today with a commitment to deal with the housing crisis, cutting daily living costs for Londoners and making the city safer. Zoë Garbett, who is standing as the Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London, said: “London isn’t working for too many people in our city. We […]
22 March 2024 / 16 April 2024 by London Green Party
London needs a Mayor that will hold The Met Police to account: Green Party candidate for Mayor of London Zoë Garbett has already delivered in Hackney and is ready to do this for London. Video on London Green Party YouTube
20 March 2024 / 20 March 2024 by London Green Party
On the first anniversary of the publication of the Casey Review, the Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London has called out the lack of progress and says acknowledging the issues is the first step to rebuilding trust. The report, which was published on 21 March 2023, describes The Met as being institutionally racist, misogynist, […]
20 March 2024 / 20 March 2024 by Matt Edwards
Zoë Garbett, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has responded to the announcement of strike action by London underground train drivers scheduled in April and May. Zoë said, “The results of this ballot by ASLEF are convincing – it is clear train drivers are very unhappy with the way Transport for London is […]
14 March 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
Zoë Garbett, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has pledged to tackle poor quality housing across London. Zoë, who is also a councillor for Dalston in Hackney, has pledged to prioritise action to improving housing standards by addressing issues like damp and poor insulation. She said, “No Londoner should live in a cold, […]
7 March 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
In a policy pledge before the upcoming Mayor of London election, Green Candidate Zoë Garbett vowed to make school meals free for all children across London in both primary and secondary school. This policy would go further than Labour’s pledge to provide free school meals only to primary aged children and would apply to all […]
6 March 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
Zoë Garbett, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has responded to the latest Conservative budget that offers little for most Londoners. Ms Garbett said, “Londoners have suffered under fourteen years of economic mismanagement by this Conservative government. London needs investment in public services but all the Chancellor had to offer was a tax bribe […]
5 March 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
Zoë Garbett, Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has visited Lambeth to hear from Central Hill residents and renew calls for scale-up of new social housing from existing houses. Zoë says that to urgently increase the number of social housing, existing homes and programmes to ‘buy the supply’ need to be prioritised. (1). Highlighting […]
2 March 2024 / 16 March 2024 by Colin Boyle
LGBT+ history month is a time to celebrate the past, and to apply its lessons to our present. My politics and my career in the public sector have been inspired by LGBT+ activists throughout history, particularly the impact of the ACT UP movement and the strength and solidarity shown by LGSM in the 1980s. However, […]
13 February 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
Greens have pledged more funding to open more public toilets following new polling which shows 74% of people think there should be more toilets on the Transport for London (TfL) network. Zoë Garbett, who visited Tooting Broadway today, has welcomed the new commitment by the current Mayor of London to earmark £3 million a year […]
7 February 2024 / 16 March 2024 by London Green Party
The Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London has pledged to create ten new parks across London if elected. In a policy pledge before the upcoming Mayor of London election, Zoë Garbett pledges to create ‘ten new parks’ across the city. She would designate areas like Leigh Road Sports Ground in East Ham in the […]
10 January 2024 / 16 March 2024 by lgpcoordinator
The Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London commits to de-prioritise the policing of cannabis whilst slamming the current Labour Mayor’s failure to address rising drug-related deaths. Zoë Garbett who has been selected as the Green Party’s candidate in the next Mayor of London election on May 2nd, has made a series of bold pledges […]
9 December 2023 by Colin Boyle
Mona Adam is the first Green Party councillor in Kensington and Chelsea following her defection from the Labour Party. She was welcomed to the Green Party by deputy leader Zack Polanski and our Green Mayor of London candidate Zoë Garbett. Mona feels her values and convictions are more in line with those of the Green […]
2 December 2023 / 2 December 2023 by Colin Boyle
Welcome London’s newest Green councillor, Cllr Lorna Jane Russell! On Thursday 30th November, she won the Highgate by-election in Camden with a huge 59% of the vote, after Siân Berry stepped down in September to focus on becoming Brighton Pavillion’s next Green MP. She polled more than twice as many votes as Labour, a truly fantastic […]
11 September 2023 / 16 March 2024 by Colin Boyle
The London Assembly last week unanimously supported a call from Green Assembly Member Caroline Russell for the Mayor to invest in new toilets on the tube, a vitally important move for so many in London. This comes after a report released by Caroline Russell AM showed that less than a quarter of TfL stations in […]
10 May 2023 / 11 September 2023 by London Green Party
Following on from the arrests of dozens of pro-republic demonstrators in London, including Graham Smith – CEO of pressure group Republic – the Met Police has found itself on the defensive as it faces pressure to address the “heavy-handed” tactics on display during the Coronation. Out of 64 arrests, only 4 were charged, in what […]
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10 February 2023 / 21 March 2023 by Colin Boyle
The Green Party has announced Zoë Garbett will be its candidate for the Mayor of London next year as she set out her vision for a Green London in 2024. In a speech today [Friday 10 February] outside City Hall (Newham), Zoë spoke of her plans to make London a Greener, fairer city with measures […]
21 November 2022 / 21 November 2022 by London Green Party
London Assembly Greens have asked the police to look at the best schemes when tackling crime in the capital. Caroline Russell, when questioning Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, asked about Diversion Schemes. These move people caught committing minor offences away from the criminal justice system towards targeted support or treatment. Caroline said:- “Do you think there are lessons to be learned with places […]
8 November 2022 / 8 November 2022 by London Green Party
The Met Police should stop sharing images of knives on their social media outlets, according to London Greens. The Met showed over 2,000 pictures of knives on its accounts between July 2020 and August 2021. Many were images of knives that had been seized or handed in during weapons amnesties. Green Party Assembly Member Caroline […]
30 October 2022 / 30 October 2022 by London Green Party
The new Metropolitan Police Chief has told Green London Assembly Member Caroline Russell that keeping people out of the criminal justice system is “a no-brainer.” Ms Russell was questioning Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley at the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee. She asked about Diversion Schemes, which move people caught committing minor offences away from the criminal justice system towards targeted support or treatment. Ms Russell said, “Do you think there are lessons to be learned […]
20 October 2022 / 20 October 2022 by London Green Party
Hackney was looking forward to its carnival, the first one to be held in-person since 2019. It was hoped that Hackney Carnival could revitalise the community and generate much-needed income. “Local businesses told me how hard things have been during Covid and how optimistic they were that this weekend would finally deliver a decent opportunity,” writes Zoe Garbett, Green Councillor for Hackney, on ‘The Bright Green Website’. But the […]
