Green party accused of trying to purge gender-critical voices

The Green party is veering away from its founding culture towards a more leftwing authoritarianism, its former health spokesperson has claimed.

- Matthew Weaver

Dr Pallavi Devulapalli said trans rights had become an obvious totem in the new climate, and accused the party of trying to purge anyone with gender-critical views.

Devulapalli, a GP and member of King's Lynn and West Norfolk council, was expelled from the party for a rules breach that she has said was because of her beliefs on gender. Her expulsion this month, she said, has exposed a rift in the party's leadership on transgender issues that threatens to widen during this summer's leadership election.

The party's co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who has argued that members should not be thrown out for saying trans women are not women, is pressing internally for Devulapalli's expulsion to be reviewed.

A party spokesperson said: "We don't comment on individual cases."