News Press Releases
10 May 2022 / 10 May 2022 by pressofficer
A consultation on the future governance of Liverpool is running until June, rather than the promised referendum. Today, Liverpool Green Party is urging people across the city to take part, and opt for a more democratic system to hold councillors to account and encourage cross-party working.
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1 May 2022 / 10 May 2022 by Álvaro
We are supporting Plantlife and supporting the campaign #NoMowMay which is aimed at the gardens and green spaces away from the roadside. It tries to raise awareness and understanding of the biodiversity opportunity lost by mowing in early season.
28 April 2022 / 29 April 2022 by Álvaro
At the Liverpool Green Party, we are strongly in favour of adopting the committee system since it involves many more councillors in decision making and policy development.
2 March 2022 / 2 March 2022 by pressofficer
Councillor Tom Crone today (Wednesday March 2) welcomed Labour stealing Green Party Budget plans for more active travel and controls on senior management costs, but warned the Mayor can no longer dodge funding the local green new deal Liverpool so desperately needs.
31 January 2022 / 31 January 2022 by pressofficer
Green Councillors today pledge to work with the ruling Labour group and community stakeholders to produce an ethical charter for the Council that is ‘worth more than the paper it is written on.’
26 January 2022 / 26 January 2022 by Álvaro
Green Party Councillor Anna Key tonight (Wednesday January 26) thanked campaigners after Liverpool City Council voted to stop the expansion of Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
25 January 2022 / 24 January 2022 by Álvaro
Liverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson is being urged by a cross-party coalition including the Liverpool Green Party to press the Home Secretary to withdraw the Nationality and Borders Bill for fear it will ‘stoke the politics of division’ and encourage far-right activity in the city.
18 January 2022 / 20 January 2022 by Álvaro
Liverpool is facing both ways on the climate crisis, risking ridicule and failure, Liverpool Green Party Councillor Anna Key will warn councillors as she moves a motion aimed at stopping the expansion of Liverpool John Lennon Airport on to a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
7 January 2022 / 7 January 2022 by Álvaro
Our long march to democracy is marked by the numerous campaigns, protests and demonstrations that forced successive reluctant governments to extend to right to vote to adults, allow workers to organise in trade unions and extend civil liberties to all. Yet, the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) is a threat to that. We need your support opposing the Policing Bill.
8 December 2021 / 8 December 2021 by Álvaro
Green councillors today (8 December) demand council action to back communities tackling the climate emergency. A wide-ranging Green Party Climate Emergency motion has gained cross-party support and is likely to be agreed at this evening’s full council meeting. It: Recognises the recent international COP26 gathering in Glasgow failed to meet the needs of the planet […]
23 November 2021 / 23 November 2021 by Álvaro
Liverpool Green Party is outraged that the city’s council-owned, premier venue ACC is hosting an event for Franklin Graham, the US preacher with a long history of condemning gay people and same-sex marriage.
31 October 2021 by Álvaro
Sign our petition to make Liverpool City Region accessible for everyone. Liverpool Green Party is backing Transport For All’s Equal Pavement Pledge.
29 October 2021 / 29 October 2021 by Álvaro
Green councillors today (October 29) urged Liverpool council leaders to call a summit of local community leaders to set out plans to protect the most vulnerable.
27 October 2021 / 29 October 2021 by Álvaro
Can you help raise £1,000 to give Green voters the best chance to get Green Councillors elected in the three upcoming by-elections in Liverpool?
17 October 2021 / 17 October 2021 by Álvaro
Watch the Talk on COP26 with Natalie Bennett that took place on Tuesday 12 October 7-8.30pm. Natalie Bennett is one of the two Green Party representatives in the House of Lords.
Campaigns News Press Releases
25 July 2021 / 29 September 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party today (Monday July 26) warns that it’s less than a month to the ‘Great NHS Data Grab’ which threatens to share people’s most personal medical information with private companies. It urged new health secretary Sajid Javid to dismantle the toxic legacy left by his predecessor Matt Hancock by scrapping the proposed Great […]
21 July 2021 / 29 September 2021 by pressofficer
Green councillors today (Wednesday July 21) urged new Labour Mayor Joanne Anderson to be bold and back a ban on an international arms fair planned for October in the council-owned Exhibition Centre. They welcomed the Mayor’s recognition that Electronic Warfare Europe is a major arms fair bringing together weapons merchants and ‘some of the most […]
Elections News Press Releases
28 May 2021 / 2 June 2021 by pressofficer
Green councillors vowed to deepen and intensify scrutiny of the new Labour administration following the first council meetings. Green councillors will sit on key committees, including those scrutinising Planning, Audit and Licensing decisions made by the Labour Mayor. Green Party Group leader Cllr Tom Crone said: ‘We know from comments made by the last Mayor […]
News St Michaels
7 May 2021 / 26 January 2022 by Álvaro
Stephanie Pitchers is the new Green Party councillor for St Michaels.
3 May 2021 / 4 May 2021 by pressofficer
New analysis of publicly available council attendance record for the last five years reveals that it is Green councillors who turn up while others stay away. Of councillors with five or more years on the council: St Michaels Green Councillor Sarah Jennings has the highest percentage attendance. Two out of the top three highest […]
14 April 2021 / 15 April 2021 by pressofficer
The Green Party today (Thursday April 15) called for urgent action following a devastating new report highlighting delays in tackling air quality that are costing lives and damaging the city economy. A new report from CBI Economics, commissioned by the Clean Air Fund, found that ‘Liverpool remains behind other cities such as London, Bristol and […]
24 March 2021 / 24 March 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Group leader Tom Crone today (Wednesday, March 24) called on the city’s Labour leaders to ‘resign as one’ following a damning report into years of failure that has opened the door to unelected Tory rule on Merseyside. Cllr Crone said the people of Liverpool would have the chance to make their verdict known […]
18 March 2021 / 18 March 2021 by pressofficer
Tom Crone sitting on electric cargo bike The Green Party today (Friday March 19) called for a 50 per cent cut in city centre traffic to end a crisis killing over 1,000 people a year. The call came as the Liverpool City Council debated a new clean air policy. Green Group leader, and city mayor […]
3 March 2021 / 18 March 2021 by pressofficer
Green Group leader Tom Crone today (Wednesday March 3) warned that the Liverpool City Region freeport deal was the wrong strategy to create the clean green economy of the future. Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the entire region will become a Freeport under a plan announced in the Budget. Cllr Crone said evidence from around […]
