Locking up her bike on a busy Brighton street, cafe manager Bridget Weston might seem a good bet to back the local Green party, but she is sceptical. “I think they have become complacent,” she says. “There’s almost this presumption that because of the way Brighton is, people are just going to vote Green.”
A general election is most likely still over a year away, but the starting gun has been fired on one of its most fascinating micro-battles: whether the Greens can hold on to their sole Commons seat in an area where, these days, they arguably represent the political establishment.
