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Thanks in part to their excellent gains in the 2019 local elections, but also to their slow and steady progress in the preceding years, the Green Party now has a genuine national presence across much of England. Many of those gains were in councils that elect on the “thirds” model – that is, one-third of the seats are up one year, another third the next and the final third the year after, with the “spare” year the only one that the council has no elections. The Green Party would, on a good night, make gains in some but not all of those areas: Amber Valley, Tameside, Colchester a...

She says that young Black men being six and half times more likely to be stopped and searched than their white counterparts in areas served by Avon and Somerset police. “A major part of my campaign manifesto is institutional reform,” says Lake, who has previously held the position of lord mayor and chairs the Avon Fire Authority inclusion board. “The disproportionate use of stop and search against members of our Afrikan and Asian communities and particularly amongst a young demographic must be reduced. “We need to empower communities, hear them and build trust. I believe in active dem...

When is the 2021 London Mayoral Election and who are the candidates? Lizzie Edmonds UP NEXT Normally, elections take place every four years - and more than six million people in London are registered to vote. Voters can pick a first and a second preference for Mayor.  The candidates with least votes are knocked out and their second preferences allocated to the others, until someone gets a clear majority of votes.  © Provided by Evening Standard Read more on the London Mayoral electionES The incumbent Mayor, Sadiq Khan, faces competition from the main political parties, p...

SOUTHAMPTON'S Green party is calling on the government to hand over control of the test and trace system to local authorities. Following the outbreak of the South African variant of Covid in Southampton in February, and and now again in South London, the Green Party has called on the government to decentralise its "calamitous" test and trace system and hand over control of the system to local authorities. The demand comes soon after Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley led the party’s call for a public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic. Green Party candidate...

By Aran Dhillon, Local Democracy Reporter Lyndsay McAteer WARRINGTON and Halton Green Party has launched its election campaign. Ahead of the local elections on May 6, nationally, the Greens are looking to build on their record results from the last local elections in 2019, which saw the party more than double its number of councillors. Locally, the party is looking to win its first council seat in each borough and has pledged that any councillor appointed will continue the hard work of those currently elected around the country in ...