By Peter Cranie, Green Party health spokesperson The resignation of Matt Hancock as health secretary has quite rightly given rise to calls for further scrutiny and several questions that require urgent answers. From queries over Gina Coladangelo’s appointment as a non-executive director of the Department of Health and Social Care…

These are the big questions, and the government has the wrong answers By Green peer Natalie Bennett Four hundred thousand years ago, in the East African Rift Valley, human species faced a huge threat — massive ecological change. The very foundations of their world had shifted. What those ancient humans — individuals like you and I — did was develop new skills…

Today the House of Lords held its Budget debate. I’ve no doubt for almost all of the rest of the country that now feels like ancient history, but there is an advantage of perspective achieved nine days after delivery. The dust has settled and the overall picture is far clearer. …

In order to limit air pollution to healthy levels there would need to be a radical overhaul in the transport sector. The Greens would revolutionise transport by ending the dependence on carbon, using clean energy alternatives and investing in public transport to get people out of cars and onto trains…

The year the UK chairs the COP26 conference must be a year when the Chancellor finally rises to the scale of the challenge presented by the climate emergency. …

When Lehman Brothers went belly-up on September 15, 2008, the global financial system wobbled and there was a serious risk that the cash machines would stop working, UK and global government swung into action. On October 8, the government announced a £500 billion rescue package. The previous day, October 7…

Small businesses have been hit hardest in this pandemic. Let’s make sure we support them properly. No one can deny that small businesses have been hit hard during the pandemic. They’ve got to get the support they need to survive, and to thrive, after the crisis is over. We’ve got…

Ahead of the expected publication of the government’s long promised ten point plan on the environment, we’re setting out five tests for Boris Johnson to meet if the plans are to be welcomed as a serious response to the climate emergency. “The promise of this ten-point plan represents an important…

Fires in the Arctic, Australia and the US. Refugees in the channel. Thousands sleeping rough on our streets. A pandemic that has killed over a million people. It’s easy to feel despair at the moment, but we wanted to look back at some of the reasons to be hopeful since…