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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Siân Berry says Labour shift to right could help Greens hold Brighton

Siân Berry (right) with Caroline Lucas in London in 2021
Siân Berry (right) with Caroline Lucas, whose Brighton Pavilion seat Berry hopes to retain for the party. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Labour’s seeming shift to the right under Keir Starmer will make the Greens’ chances of holding their sole parliamentary seat easier, but is ultimately bad for the country, the party’s chosen successor to Caroline Lucas has said.

Siân Berry, a former Green co-leader who has been selected by local party members to fight the Brighton Pavilion seat held by Lucas since 2010, said Starmer’s decision to maintain the two-child benefit limit provided a powerful argument to keep an alternative perspective in parliament.

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