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GREENS will be “shut out” of national politics if Caroline Lucas loses a “savage” general election scrap with Labour, the party’s campaign manager warned at the weekend.
The party’s membership has soared by 42,000 in the last year, seeing the Greens outgrow the Lib Dems to become the third largest party in England and Wales.
And new members made up almost half of the 1,500 activists attending the party’s biggest ever conference, which concludes today in Liverpool.
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
