Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay says they can win seats on Cambridgeshire County Council

The Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said he was confident the party could get councillors elected to Cambridgeshire County Council in the upcoming elections during a visit to the county last week.

Mr Ramsay visited last Wednesday (9 April) and spoke with Kathryn Fisher, a county council candidate for Histon and Impington, about concerns on youth provision and potholes in the division.

He met other candidates for the 1 May elections including Darren Green (Romsey) and Elliot Tong (Abbey), and the Greens’ mayoral hopeful Bob Ensch before joining the team to canvass support.

The Greens said he had a positive response from several voters on the doorstep who were “increasingly disillusioned with Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems”.

Mr Ramsay said: “We’re really confident that we can get a group of Greens elected to Cambridgeshire County Council, which will be so important to push the council to do more by protecting local services, defend the local environment and address inequality.

“The issues are huge. There are major growth plans for the region which will only reinforce inequality, with people not able to get access to the affordable housing they need –it’s a huge water-stressed region and local services are not getting the investment they need.”

The Greens say they are hoping to make an impact beyond Cambridge, in places like St Neots East and Gransden, and Soham South and Haddenham in the elections. The county council is currently under the control of a coalition of Liberal Democrat, Labour and Independent councillors.

They also expect to improve on their 2017 performance in the mayoral election, also on 1 May. Mr Ensch is running against Labour’s Anna Smith, Conservative Paul Bristow, Liberal Democrat Lorna Dupré and Ryan Coogan, of Reform UK in the race to succeed Dr Nik Johnson as mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.