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8 December 2023 / 14 March 2024 by North East Green Party
The Green Party have announced their candidates for mayor of the Tees Valley and North East Combined Authorities. Andrew Gray will be their candidate in the election for Mayor of the North East Combined Authority. Andrew was born in Newcastle and raised in Northumberland. For the last twenty years he has lived in Newcastle and […]
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31 March 2023 / 31 March 2023 by North East Green Party
In a recent by-election for Newcastle City Council, Green candidate Nick Hartley doubled the Party’s share of the vote to 30% and polled more that the Tories and Lib Dems combined. He’ll be standing in the same ward again next month – only the Greens can beat Labour here!
Carla Denyer, co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, will be visiting North East England on Tuesday 4th April, to support campaigns for the local council elections in May. She will be visiting wards in Gateshead, North Tyneside, and Darlington.
7 May 2021 / 11 May 2021 by North Tyneside Green Party
As Local Election results come in across the Region, there have been a number of good results for local residents as more Green Councillors are elected. We can celebrate wins in Durham, Northumberland and South Tyneside. These wins mean that we have doubled our number of Elected Representatives in the Region. We can also celebrate […]
2 April 2021 / 14 March 2024 by North Tyneside Green Party
Rachel Featherstone: “Every green vote will be a message that things can’t go on the way they have been” The Green Party has selected Rachel Featherstone as their candidate for the forthcoming Hartlepool by-election. Featherstone, who has lived in the north east her entire life, will stand for the seat on the promise to fight […]
19 March 2021 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. We hope that you find it interesting and informative. If you have any comments – or want to get in touch – please visit the ‘contact‘ page or email enquiries@neengland.greenparty.org.uk You may notice that the date shown in brackets on some news items does […]
17 March 2021 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Councillor Carla Denyer: “It is depressing to see how, yet again on a vital green issue, the government has aimed low and will still miss its target.” The government’s new industrial decarbonisation strategy [1] goes nowhere near far enough and lacks the proper plan and finance to achieve its aims, the Green Party has warned. […]
15 March 2021 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Caroline Lucas: “What action the UK takes on climate and biodiversity this year matters more than ever” The Green Party has reiterated a call for a ‘State of Nature’ clause being included in the delayed Environment Bill which would require the government to set a legally-binding target of 2030 to halt and reverse the decline […]
14 March 2021 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The Green Party has condemned the harmful and shocking Metropolitan police action on Clapham Common this weekend. Responding to policing at the vigil, Green Party co-leader and candidate for Mayor of London Sian Berry said: “I can’t think of a more shameful way for an organisation to have handled this whole situation. “There was literally no […]
8 March 2021 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Jonathan Bartley: “Increasing road capacity discourages the use of public transport and puts thousands of acres of countryside under threat” The Green Party has reiterated its call for the government to scrap its £27bn road building programme and all airport expansion, which severely undermines efforts to cut air pollution and carbon emissions. Green Party co-leader […]