Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

Jennifer Helen Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb,  (born 23 December 1949) is a British politician who was the Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales. She was until September 2019 the only Green Party member in the House of Lords.

Jones represented the Green Party in the London Assembly from 2000 until retiring in 2016. She was the Green candidate for Mayor of London in the 2012 election. She was also the sole Green councillor on Southwark Council from 2006 to 2010. Southwark Greens Stop paying council cleaners poverty wages.

It was announced in August 2013 that Jones was to become the first Green life peer in the House of Lords since Tim Beaumont.Working Peerages announced. 1 August 2013. Gov.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2020. She was introduced to the House of Lords on 5 November 2013."Introductions" Democracy Live (House of Lords; published by the BBC), 5 November 2013; "Introduction: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb – in the House of Lords at 2:38 pm on 5th November 2013." They Work For You. 5 November 2013.

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