‘We’re on a roll’: Greens’ leaders promise to pile pressure on Labour

Green Party leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay believe their party is a ‘major force in local government across the country’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The leaders of the Green party have promised to hold to account a “timid” Labour government as the party gathers for what will be a celebratory annual conference after it returned four MPs in the general election.

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, who both won seats on 4 July, told the Guardian that the gathering in Manchester of the England and Wales Greens would be both a chance to mark the successes of a party “on a roll”, and to set out what comes next – and how best to exert their new parliamentary influence.