The mother of a Green Party MP has claimed the Greens have welcomed ‘less than nice people’ through the door by shunning their eco-roots.
In a dramatic intervention, Liz Spencer, the mum of recently elected Green MP Hannah Spencer and herself a Green member, said of the party in its current guise: ‘It’s not what the Green Party used to be; nice people who wore hemp shoes.
‘That opened the door for lots of less-than-nice people to enter. And no one was primed for it.’
Ms Spencer first joined the Green Party when it was called the Ecology Party, and unsuccessfully stood in
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