United Kingdom

In local elections across the United Kingdom, the Green Party is celebrating progress after adding new councillors and defending existing seats in England and Scotland, including retaining seats on the London Assembly, Norwich and Glasgow City Councils and doubling the number of city councillors in Edinburgh.

In the British seaside city of Brighton, Greens won 33% city wide and 23 seats in May 5th elections to achieve the first Green Party-led city council in UK history. The party's local manifesto "A Fresh Start for a Fair City" was headed by a pledge to resist the service cuts and privatisation imposed by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat national coalition government. This same area helped elect Caroline Lucas as the first Green to the House of Commons in 2010.