Can we take the Greens seriously?

A policy of Russian appeasement and a disastrous radio interview don't auger well for the Greens.

It's been an "inauspicious start" to the Green Party's election campaign, says Sebastian Payne on his Spectator blog. Leader Natalie Bennett started her day by advocating a policy of Russian appeasement on the Today programme and followed it up with a "disastrous" interview with LBC's Nick Ferrari.

Challenged on the party's proposal to build 500,000 new social rent houses, she was left stuttering and lost for words.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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