Bright Green

17/07/2025

Our first interview with a candidate for the Green Party's deputy leadership goes live at 8pm today.

Tune in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go9xJb90iLI

30/06/2025

NEW: Frank Adlington-Stringer has announced he's standing to be deputy leader of the Green Party.

Another day, another candidate announced for the Green Party deputy leadership election. As of today, there are no less than seven candidates publicly announced to be in the running. Today, North East Derbyshire councillor Frank Adlington-Stringer announced he's standing. Adlington-Stringer has come...

29/06/2025

A sixth candidate has announced their standing to be deputy leader of the Green Party.

The race to be the next deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales is becoming a crowded field. A sixth individual has announced their intention to stand in the election for the post this summer. In a post on Instagram, Chas Warlow revealed he's planning to stand for the deputy leadership...

29/06/2025

Writing for Bright Green, Josh Alton looks at attitudes towards Israel among British Jews, and what this means for the left.

Eighteen months have passed since October 7 and Israel’s vicious reprisals against Gazans, Palestinians and various neighbouring counties. The response of Western powers has been at best passive, and at worst actively, materially supporting Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the West Bank and regional ...

29/06/2025

People are calling for change to maternity and paternity pay

More than 90,000 people have signed a petition calling for statutory maternity and paternity pay to be increased to match the minimum wage. Presently, statutory maternity and paternity pay is set at £4.99 per hour for a full-time worker on 37.5 hours per week. This is well below the £12.21 minimum...

28/06/2025

These are the reasons why ex-Labour voters say they're voting Green.

New polling has revealed why people who voted for Labour in the 2024 general election but who now say they're backing the Greens have made the switch. According to the poll, the most commonly given reason as to why ex-Labour voters are now voting Green is that Labour has been too right wing. YouGov....

12/06/2025

Ani Townsend is standing to be deputy leader of the Green Party.

A flurry of candidates for the deputy leadership of the Green Party have started to announce. The fourth candidate to enter the race was Ani Townsend, who announced their intention to stand on 9 June. Townsend has been a councillor in Bristol since 2015. In the 2024 general election, they stood for....

09/06/2025

Patrick Harvie has said that pride protests are needed now more than ever.

Pride protests are needed more than ever, the Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie has said. According to Harvie, Scotland should use Pride month to stand up for equality and against the 'toxic campaigns' against LGBTIQA+ rights. The Scottish Greens argue that these rights are being rolled....

09/06/2025

Mothin Ali is standing for deputy leader of the Green Party

Nominations are now open in the Green Party leadership and deputy leadership elections. While the leadership election is currently getting an unprecedented amount of coverage, the deputy contest is a little more under the radar. Two candidates announced in May - Antoinette Fernandez and Thomas Daw.....

09/06/2025

More than 130,000 people have signed the petition calling for Donald Trump to be blocked from addressing the House of Commons

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for Donald Trump to be blocked from speaking at the House of Commons as part of his state visit to the UK. The petition comes ahead of Trump's planned visit in September 2025. The petition says that 'Trump's hate fuelled rhetoric has no place i...

08/06/2025

All four Green Party MPs have signed an Early Day Motion in parliament which says “transition liberates trans people to be their true selves”

All four Green Party MPs have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) in parliament which calls for the elimination of discrimination against trans people. They're among 28 MPs who have signed the EDM. Starting by stating that "transition liberates trans people to be their true selves", it goes on to criti...

08/06/2025

This is what we've learnt from Zack Polanski's leadership campaign media appearances.

Zack Polanski was the first person to announce his candidacy for the Green Party leadership election. He had a good launch. Coming out the gates first, he got all the attention and made sure that he emerged as the frontrunner. Alongside this, he had an unprecedented amount of media attention for a G...