GREEN Party co-leader Caroline Lucas may be stepping down but will continue to play a valuable role as MP for Brighton Pavilion.
The Greens’ sole MP has long been one of Parliament’s most powerful voices in opposition to the sleaze and entitlement that characterise that institution.
The Greens have become a more prominent force in British politics since she first became leader in 2008 and she has done much to add a radical critique of capitalism and injustice to its traditional focus on environmental issues.
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative



