Leader Profiles: Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This bonus episode of Newscast is a profile of the co-leaders of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer.

Adam is joined by Paul Barltrop, BBC West Political Editor, and Rupert Read, co-director of The Climate Majority Project, to chronicle their early lives and political careers. They discuss how they became involved with environmentalism, their careers before politics and how the co-leaders were matched together.

This episode is part of a series where Newscast profiles each of the leaders of major political parties.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, as part of newscast's election cast coverage,
0:07.8	we're bringing you these bonus episodes profiling each of the major party leaders
0:12.3	running in the 2024 UK general election.
0:15.9	We've been speaking to journalists who followed their careers and also to people who know these politicians
0:20.9	really well about what they are actually like.
0:24.9	This episode is all about the Green Party of England and Wales co-leaders, 38-year-old Carla Denier,
0:31.4	and 43-year-old Adrian Ramsey.
0:34.0	We'll talk about Adrian's role in introducing the leadership system in the Green Party
0:38.0	and how Adrian and Carla were matched together as co-leaders
0:42.0	as well as how Carla brought in the first declaration of a climate
0:46.0	emergency by any council in Europe. We'll cover all that and more on this bonus episode of Newscast.
0:53.3	Newscast.
0:54.3	Newscast from the BBC.
0:56.3	And we can discuss the two leaders now with Paul Bartrop who's the BBC's west of England political editor.
1:07.0	Hi Paul.
1:08.0	Hello there Adam.
1:09.0	And the west is kind of is a green heartland at the moment, isn't it?
1:12.0	Yeah, it really is. it's been building up steadily you know if you go back sometime and I've been around this part of the world for a good long while now
1:20.7	places like Stroud in Gloucestershire where there's a bit of a green tinge to life
1:26.6	around there and politics there has taken a green tinge for a long time.
1:30.4	I remember the Greens getting a substantial presence on the town council well they
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