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28 May 2021

The Greens are on the march. Who should be afraid?

May’s local elections saw support for the Green Party increase, but that won’t necessarily translate into more MPs.

By Ben Walker

England’s Green party is on the march. Buoyed with local council seat gains throughout much of the country, there’s talk now – albeit talk almost exclusively from them – of supplanting the Liberal Democrats as the nation’s third most popular party. The polls don’t yet show that to be the case, but the latest numbers do record a slight uptick on the Green party’s support since the May local elections. 

But in our electoral system, how far can they go?

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