Who are Green Party leaders Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas and what do they stand for?

The Green Party demands action on predominantly environmental and welfare issues and is headed-up by two leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley. 

Dating back to 1972, the Greens first began as the People Party, before two name changes saw it settle for its current status. 

A left leaning party whose headquarters are in London, the party has one MP, three members of the European Parliament and one member sitting in the House of Lords.

Who is Caroline Lucas?

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) has been leader of the party since September 2, 2016, succeeding Natalie Bennett.

Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, she graduated from the University of Exeter receiving a  PhD before joining the Green Party in 1986 and moving first onto Oxfordshire County Council as a councillor and then an MEP for South England in 1999.

Lucas was selected to become leader of the party in 2008 but stepped down to focus on her duties as MP of Brighton Pavilion, a position she has served since the general election in 2010.

Who is Jonathan Bartley?

Jonathan Bartley (born 16 October 1971) was formerly the Green Party's national Work and Pensions spokesperson before becoming co-leader of the party.

Despite standing as parliamentary candidate for Streatham in the 2015 general election and succeeding, he has chosen not to stand in the 2017 election. 

Bartley was educated at Dulwich College before graduating from the London School of Economics and taking up a role as UK parliament researcher.

In 2012, Bartley was selected as the Green Party candidate for the Lambeth and Southwark constituency during the London Assembly elections.

What does the party stand for?

 The Green Party's main campaign slogan is to "create a confident and caring Britain that we can all be proud of".

Their key policies include introducing a four day working week, abolishing the zero hour contracts, rolling back the 'privatisation' of the NHS and renationalising railways, energy, water, buses and the Royal Mail.

Environmental changes include making sure every home is insulated, replace fracking and coal power stations with renewable energy and calling for a one off payment to be paid by car manufacturers who cheated emissions testing regime.

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