Green Party co-leaders, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay at the local election campaign launch.
2024-05-09 928词 中等
Fifty years on, the party has changed its policies and raised its profile. In local elections on May 2nd it gained 74 council seats, bringing its tally to 812 councillors in England and Wales. It is polling at a lofty 6% share of the vote nationally. At a general election later this year the Greens will be held back by Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system. They won almost 840,000 votes at the last election in 2019 and ended up with just one seat; they will do well to double their seat count this time round. But other parties, from UKIP to Reform UK, have had an impact on the right wing of British politics that did not depend on having seats in Westminster. The Greens may end up having a similarly outsize effect on disaffected voters on the left.
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