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Green Party leader opens conference with pledge to cleanse Westminster

THE “rotten core” of Westminster has to be removed and the Greens are the party for the job, leader Natalie Bennett announced yesterday as she opened this year’s Green Party conference.

In her first address to party members meeting in Bournemouth this weekend, Ms Bennett defined the Greens as the political opponents of climate change, social inequality and an “unfair” electoral system.

Ms Bennett, who led the party through its “surge” and its best ever electoral result, slammed the Conservative government on every one of its flagship policies.

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