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NATALIE BENNETT said yesterday that voting Green at the general election can spark a “peaceful political revolution” as she bounced back from her “mind blank” radio embarrassment.
The under-pressure Green leader was cheered on by 1,300 members as she delivered a short but assured speech to her party’s biggest ever conference.
She pledged her party will “end the failed austerity experiment” if its MPs hold the balance of power after Britain’s most unpredictable general election in May.
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
