‘The job starts straight away’: Adrian Ramsay on his first 100 days as Green MP

‘The job starts straight away’: Adrian Ramsay on his first 100 days as Green MP

Co-leader has had to prioritise the most urgent constituency cases until finally assembling his full team

When Adrian Ramsay confounded more than a century of Conservative hegemony in rural East Anglia to win Waveney Valley for the Greens on a wave of local enthusiasm, he might have expected to enjoy a pleasant political honeymoon.

Pledging to work constructively with the new government, Ramsay’s first significant parliamentary intervention at the inaugural PMQs 20 days into his new job was an innocuous inquiry about how Keir Starmer would show leadership at the forthcoming Cop16 conference on nature. It was met with the football-loving prime minister’s rhetorical equivalent of a two-footed tackle.

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