THE Greens count 30-year-old Amelia Womack as one of their most senior leaders.

Her energy and political orientation, perhaps even more than her age, have turned Ms Womack into the face of the party’s new generation.

A year since becoming deputy leader, Ms Womack told the Star that between general elections and tripling the number of party members she has still had time to do some local action.

“This year’s been really hectic,” she said with a smile.

“Just seeing that old phrase ‘a week is a long time in politics’ it really has proved it — the amount of changes that can happen.

“When I was elected there were 18,000 members of the Green Party, there are now 66,000.

“Balancing work commitments and the role as deputy leader hasn’t been the easiest because the amount of work that had to be done has increased so much.”

On her work for the May election she added: “One of the things about the general election that really hit home was the amount of people you speak to whose lives have been torn apart by austerity and communities completely being destroyed.

“On the doorstep people needed some hope and policies to be implemented that improved people’s lives. It was disappointing [to lose in many seats], the reality was they didn’t need hope they needed people to be elected to represent them.”

To her, like to her leader Natalie Bennett, electoral reform is a must, but so is activism in particular battling the housing crisis and fuel poverty in Britain.

“The social issues strike home but then social and environmental issues don’t work in isolation. Our manifesto wasn’t just points of what we wanted to do it was points of what we’ve done.”

With 7,000 new members since the general election Ms Womack can confidently look into drafting the party’s 2020 manifesto.