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Green Party Co-Leader Jonathan Bartley, Deputy leader Amelia Womack and Co-Leader Sian Berry at the Observatory, London Wetlands Centre, for the launch of the Green Party manifesto
THE Green Party is facing allegations of racial discrimination by its own elected equality and diversity officer.
Rashid Nix, who was elected onto the Green Party executive committee as its equality and diversity co-ordinator earlier this year, claims that he was not considered for a paid role in the party in June because of his race.
He insists that his experience as a Green candidate in national and local elections in 2015 and 2016 made him qualified for the role of campaigns manager, but he was rejected without being shortlisted.
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
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
