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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 […]
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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 […]