Carla Denyer and I met at a quaint café in Parsons Green, west London. I sipped a cappuccino; she plumped for something thick and green. Dua Lipa played in the background, a fun reminder that the co-leader of the Green Party doesn’t yet have the luxury of a Westminster office to hold such meetings.
Denyer was upbeat – and perhaps she has good reason to be. The Greens made historic gains in May’s local elections, winning control of the Mid Suffolk District Council, the party’s first council majority. More recently, in the three July by-elections, the Greens took the third-highest share of each constituency.
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