Green Party of England and Wales

The **Green Party of England and Wales** is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales. The party's policies promote environmentalism and progressive social reform. It wants to create a system of proportional representation for British elections.

The party has 5 out of 573 English and Welsh seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, three members of the London Assembly and hundreds of elected members of local government. The party is close to the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party of Northern Ireland. The party's first leader was Caroline Lucas from 2008 until 2012. Its current leader is Zack Polanski, who was elected as leader on 2 September 2025.

The Green Party includes several regional parties. The Cornish Green Party supports autonomy for Cornwall.

## Policies

Sources:

- Investment in the National Health Service (NHS)
- £15 an hour minimum wage
- Give rights to those renting a property
- More renewable energy
- End university tuition fees
- Bring the railways, water companies and the largest five energy companies into public ownership to lower the cost of train tickets, water bills and fuel bills
- Tax the assets of those with over ten million pounds
- Increase tax on those earning over £50,270 a year
- Make large industries - such as airlines - pay £120 for every tonne of carbon they put out
- Introduce free school meals for all children
- End government subsidies to oil and gas companies

## List of leaders

|colspan="4"|Leader <small>(Birth–Death)</small>|Took office|Left office|Election|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||colspan="3"|Caroline Lucas <small>(1960–)</small> <small>MEP for South East England (before 2010)</small> <small>MP for Brighton Pavilion (from 2010)</small>|5 September 2008|3 September 2012|2008 2010||||
||colspan="3"|Natalie Bennett <small>(1966–)</small>|3 September 2012|2 September 2016|2012 2014||||
||Caroline Lucas <small>(1960–)</small> <small>MP for Brighton Pavilion</small>|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Jonathan Bartley <small>(1971–)</small>|2 September 2016|4 September 2018|2016|
||Siân Berry <small>(1974–)</small> <small>Member of the London Assembly</small>|4 September 2018|31 July 2021|2018 2020|||||
|colspan="7"|_Siân Berry served as Acting Leader during this interim, following the resignation of Jonathan Bartley._||||||||
||Carla Denyer <small>(1985–)</small> <small>MP for Bristol Central (from 2024)</small>||Adrian Ramsay <small>(1981–)</small> <small>MP for Waveney Valley (from 2024)</small>|1 October 2021|2 September 2025|2021|||
||colspan="3"|Zack Polanski <small>(1982–)</small> <small>Member of the London Assembly</small>|2 September 2025|_Incumbent_|2025||||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: Green Party of England and Wales
- **native name**: Plaid Werdd Lloegr a Chymru
- **logo**: GPEW logo.jpg
- **logo size**: 100px
- **leader1 title**: Leader
- **leader1 name**: Zack Polanski
- **leader2 title**: Deputy Leaders
- **leader2 name**: Rachel Millward
 Mothin Ali
- **foundation**: July 1990; 35 years ago
- **ideology**: Green politics
 Progressivism
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **position**: Left-wing
- **european**: European Green Party
- **seats1 title**: House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons (English and Welsh seats)