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Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley have announced that they plan to stand for their job-shared role of joint leaders of the Green Party again.
Having held the leadership since 2018, Berry and Bartley used their announcement to declare that the time is right to seize the moment and become a mass-membership movement.
The party failed to add any seats at the 2019 election, winning just 2.7 per cent of the vote. It means that former party leader Caroline Lucas remains the party’s only MP in Westminster.
In a joint statement announcing their intention to stand again, Berry and Bartley said it was a pivotal moment for their party, in which they pledged to continue putting a green new deal policy and the climate emergency at the heart of the party’s agenda.
They said: “The country is in crisis and at a crossroads, and the decisions being taken now will determine what our world looks like for decades to come. We face the fundamental question of whether we will address the climate and ecological emergency, and whether we will deal with the rampant inequality, racism and poverty that scars the lives of millions – or return to business as usual. The Green Party must seize this moment. We need to be bigger and better and become a mass-membership movement that demonstrates the new kind of leadership this country so desperately needs.”
The Green Party holds a contest every two years, and, this year, will accept nominations until the end of June and then online voting will take place between 3 August and 31 August.
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