Three London councils – Hackney, Lewisham and Haringey – said they wanted to lobby the Government on a series of national issues over education, home affairs and counter-terrorism following Green wins in the local elections on May 7th.
The Greens won 441 seats and seized control of five councils for the first time in the party’s history. But concerns have been raised that the Left-wing party could use its powers to “undermine vital safeguarding measures”.
Scrapping “high-stakes formal testing” in schools, such as GCSEs and A-levels, is one of the policy ideas being explored.
In Hackney, East London, Green councillors said they would refuse to share data of migrant victims of domestic abuse with immigration enforcement agencies.
Instead, they advocated a firewall to be established between the police and the Home Office, which could frustrate attempts by the Government to tackle Britain’s illegal immigration crisis. …
The Green Party’s manifesto also includes plans to lobby the Government to axe Prevent, the Government’s deradicalisation programme aimed to stop people from “becoming terrorists and supporting terrorism”. …
They also hope to convince the Supreme Court to rewrite the Code of Practice, which would “allow for trans inclusion in single-sex services”, undermining efforts to keep biological men from participating in women’s sports or entering female prisons. …<<<Read More>>>....
