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Friday 8 June 2012

Peter Cranie contender in Leadership contest

Peter Cranie is a contender for the Green Party leadership contest which will follow the standing down of Caroline Lucas in September (the Green Party is the only political party in the UK that has a policy of rotating its leader).

Peter was really instrumental here in Halton in our achieving our best results when we nearly took seats off Labour and Lib Dems(Halton View ward (130 votes short) and Kingsway ward (114 votes short).

It's going to be quite a challenge for the next leader of the Green Party to follow Caroline Lucas's act but I consider Peter is up to it.

He is a down to earth, genuine person who has the gift of being able to put people at their ease. But also he has the political acumen to deal with the challenges he's likely to face and the vision and strength  to see the party through its  current developmental stage.

And it won't be such a bad thing, if he is successful, to have as a leader someone who has their roots in the north west here.

I wish him all the best in the contest.