Denyer announces she will not stand again as Green party co-leader

Carla Denyer has announced she will not stand again as co-leader of the Green party, ending its most electorally successful leadership duo, which delivered four MPs at last year's general election.

- Peter Walker

Denyer, who won the Bristol Central seat from Labour, said she wanted to put all her efforts into her parliamentary role.

She has served as co-leader since 2021 alongside Adrian Ramsay, who was also elected as an MP last July, for Waveney Valley. He must now decide whether to stand as a solo candidate or with someone else in the leadership election.

The party's deputy leader, Zack Polanski, announced on Monday that he would stand. However, Ramsay would not be able to stand jointly with Polanski because party rules dictate that if there is a co-leadership the duo cannot be the same gender.

The Greens in England and Wales normally hold leadership elections every two years, but there has not been a vote since 2021. Denyer and Ramsay were initially elected for three years because the election was out of sequence, and the next one was delayed for a year because of the general election.