Surging U.K. Greens Double Staff as Bennett Seeks ‘Real Change’
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The Greens have doubled their staff and taken more office space to capitalize on growing support in a bid to further fragment the U.K.’s party system in May’s election, their leader Natalie Bennett said.
The Greens’ poll ratings have surged to as much as 11 percent as they’ve attracted disillusioned voters, particularly students, from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats and the main opposition Labour Party. The development, which Bennett said had taken the party by surprise, may favor Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s bid to stay in power on May 7, even though Labour is a more natural ally for the Greens.