Back حزب الخضر في إنجلترا وويلز Arabic Зялёная партыя Ангельшчыны і Ўэйлза BE-X-OLD ইংল্যান্ড এবং ওয়েলসের সবুজ দল Bengali/Bangla Strollad Glas Bro-Saoz ha Kembre Breton Partit Verd d'Anglaterra i Gal·les Catalan Zelená strana Anglie a Walesu Czech Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr Welsh Green Party of England and Wales Danish Green Party of England and Wales German Πράσινο Κόμμα της Αγγλίας και της Ουαλίας Greek
Green Party of England and Wales Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr | |
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| Abbreviation | GPEW |
| Co-leaders | Carla Denyer Adrian Ramsay |
| Deputy Leader | Zack Polanski |
| Chair | Jon Nott |
| Founded | July 1990[n 1] |
| Preceded by | Green Party (UK) |
| Headquarters | PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ |
| Youth wing | Young Greens of England and Wales |
| LGBT wing | LGBTIQA+ Greens |
| Membership (March 2025) |  60,000+[1][2] |
| Ideology | Green politics Progressivism[3] Factions: Anti-capitalism[4] Eco-socialism[5] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
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| Devolved branches | Wales Green Party London Green Party |
| House of Commons | 4 / 575 (England and Wales) |
| House of Lords | 2 / 829 |
| Senedd | 0 / 60 |
| London Assembly | 3 / 25 |
| Directly elected regional mayors in England | 0 / 14 |
| Directly elected single authority mayors in England | 0 / 13 |
| Councillors[6][7] | 860 / 17,403 (England and Wales) |
| Councils led[8] | 12 / 338 (England and Wales) |
| PCCs and PFCCs | 0 / 37 |
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The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr), often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens, is a green, left-wing[9][10] 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.
The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation. It takes a progressive approach to social policies such as civil liberties, animal rights, LGBT rights, and drug policy reform. The party also supports a universal basic income, a living wage, and democratic participation. It is split into various regional divisions, including the semi-autonomous Wales Green Party, and is internationally affiliated with the Global Greens and the European Green Party.
In 1990, what was then the UK-wide Green Party – which had initially been established as the PEOPLE Party in 1973 – divided into the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Greens and the Green Party Northern Ireland. Since 1990, they have been three completely separate and unique political parties, with their own separate leaders, membership, polices etc. The Green Party of England and Wales went through centralising reforms spearheaded by the Green 2000 group in early 1990, and also sought to emphasise growth in local governance, doing so throughout 1990. In 2010, the party gained its first member of Parliament in its then-leader Caroline Lucas (although Plaid Cymru's Cynog Dafis was elected on a joint ticket in the 1990s). As the party's support is spread out across England and Wales, and has rarely been found in electorally significant clusters, the party held only one seat in the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019, before reaching four seats in 2024. The Green Party supports replacing the UK's first-past-the-post voting system with proportional representation, which would grant all parties a share of seats in Parliament based on their national vote share. The party saw an increase of support in 2025 from voters dissatified with Labour.[11][12]
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- ^ Goode, Julian (18 March 2025). "Join 60,000 Green Party members!". Brentwood and Chelmsford Green Party. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ "Become a member". greenparty.org.uk. Green Party of England and Wales. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
By joining the Green Party today, you are becoming part of a Green community of over 60,000 members working together to create a fairer, greener future.
- ^ "Green Party of England and Wales elects new leaders". europeangreens.edu. European Green Party. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ Gayle, Damien (8 September 2024). "Leftwing Green party members form 'anti-capitalist' pressure group". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Green leaders: Who came before Caroline Lucas?". BBC News. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Green Party (E&W)". Open Council Data UK. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ "Open Council Data UK (Councillors Breakdown by Party Latest)". opencouncildata.co.uk.
- ^ "Open Council Data UK". opencouncildata.co.uk.
- ^ Morris, Nigel (3 September 2014). "Election 2015: The Green Party want to give disgruntled left-wing voters a new voice". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ^ Bakker, Ryan; Jolly, Seth; Polk, Jonathan (14 May 2015). "Mapping Europe's party systems: which parties are the most right-wing and left-wing in Europe?". London School of Economics / EUROPP – European Politics and Policy. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Green Party aims for 'record-breaking' local elections". www.bbc.com. 8 April 2025.
- ^ "What is attracting 21% of Britons to the Green Party?". yougov.co.uk.