Green Party members start choosing new leadership
By: | Published: 2025-08-01 11:51:00 | Source: www.bbc.com
Voting has opened in the Green Party of England and Wales leadership contest.
Current party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has teamed up with another MP colleague, Ellie Chowns, after Carla Denyer decided not to stand for re-election.
The party’s 60,000-strong membership will choose between the Ramsay and Chowns ticket and the party’s current deputy leader Zack Polanski, who is also a member of the London Assembly.
Anyone who had joined the party before midnight on Thursday can vote on the leadership between now and Saturday, 30 August, with results announced on Tuesday, 2 September.
Ramsay and Chowns, a former MEP, are emphasising their “decades” of political experience and encouraging members to back them “to turn values into power”.
Self-described “eco-populist” Polanski has instead urged…
