At first it was unquestionably a single issue green party, preoccupied with issues around sustainability that it fought to make fashionable. The next leader of the Green party will have one big question to address: what is the party for? Is it a potential party of government, or is it a party that seeks to disrupt and to challenge? At the last general election it was an anti-austerity party, the fate of the planet reduced to only one of six objectives. Britain needs the Greens, and the Greens need a leader who is impossible to ignore.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2016 12:52 UTC