Green Party of England and Wales

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The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Welsh: Plaid Werdd Lloegr a Chymru), often known simply as the Greens, is a green and left-wing political party in England and Wales. Led by Zack Polanski since 2025, the party has five MPs in the House of Commons, two members of the House of Lords, over 1,300 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 supports proportional representation, LGBTQ rights, drug policy reform, and public ownership. 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...

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