Here are all of the Green Party’s internal motions for their annual autumn conference – taking place in Brighton from 2-4 October. Browse at your leisure…
Policies passed by a vote at the conference immediately become official party policy. Headaches abound for Polanski…
Every motion tabled for conference is grouped below by theme: click a theme to open it, then click any motion to see its proposer, synopsis and any amendments tabled against it. Use the search box to find a motion, proposer or keyword, or the filter buttons to show only late motions, motions that have attracted amendments, or those ruled out of order. To all the journalists hogging these and claiming them as exclusives – sorry…
Proposed by Standing Orders Committee · 9 pages · 5 supporters
Rewrites section L of the conference standing orders to create a process for membership ballots proposed by the executive or the party council, which the 2025 motion permitting such ballots never provided. It gives members the same oversight over these ballots as they have over ballots called by conference.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Haydn Osborne-Brookes · 6 pages · 21 supporters
Instructs the Parliamentary Green Party to draw up Standing Orders codifying how it functions, to be brought to conference for member approval by Spring 2028 at the latest and in any case before the next general election. They must address how the arrangements would scale to a larger group of Green MPs.
Proposed by Rachel Collinson · 6 pages · 15 supporters
Adds a constitutional clause barring major donors from standing for, being co-opted to, or remaining in any national governance or executive role. A major donor is defined as anyone, or any company they are a shareholder or board member of, whose donations to the party have exceeded the Electoral Commission reporting threshold in any of the last five years. Elected politicians drawing a salary are exempt.
Proposed by Ann Forsaith · 7 pages · 15 supporters
Requires every member seeking internal election at any level to agree, on nomination, to abide by the seven Nolan Principles. The principles would be written into the Code of Conduct and into the model local party constitution and all regional and local party constitutions.
Proposed by William Parnell · 11 pages · 16 supporters
A package on holding elected officers to account, arguing AGMs have failed to do so and there are few ways to check whether officers are doing their jobs. Standing Orders Committee ruled parts of it out of order, including a clause requiring reasons to be published where questions to officers go unanswered.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Adam Lawson · 8 pages · 17 supporters
Amends the constitution to close off rapid membership infiltration, noting that members can currently join and immediately vote at conference and in online ballots. The motion warns that decisions made by an infiltrated membership cannot be overturned by officials, citing near-miss attempts by anti-trans activists to infiltrate online conferences during the pandemic.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 8 pages · 19 supporters
Amends the constitution so that approved policy must be published in a public policy book, and gives the Policy Development Coordinator full technical access to edit both member-facing and public-facing policy, with a named staff member responsible for maintaining it.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Anne Gayfer · 6 pages · 15 supporters
Writes Policy Fest into the constitution, requiring two to be held each year timed around spring and autumn conference so policy working groups can consult beforehand. The proposer argues the lapse of Policy Fests has seriously damaged the policy process.
Proposed by Kyra McDonald · 7 pages · 24 supporters
Proposes an allowance for anyone in a national committee role expected to take more than ten hours of voluntary work a week, on the argument that unpaid senior roles exclude people without money. Those already paid as politicians above the median wage would not receive it, and committees would have to verify that recipients are doing the hours.
Proposed by Martin Rose · 8 pages · 19 supporters
Adds a new clause to conference standing orders requiring a vote of no confidence in the chair to be seconded by 50 members or 10% of those present, whichever is greater. A member whose motion fails could not propose another for the rest of that session, and nobody could propose one on the same grounds. Follows the consecutive no-confidence votes that stalled Spring Conference.
Proposed by William Parnell · 11 pages · 17 supporters
Sought to bring staff behaviour under the constitution for the first time, to make staff actions accountable and transparent to members. Standing Orders Committee ruled the substantive new part out of order as too vague, leaving the clause unaltered.
Proposed by William Parnell · 10 pages · 16 supporters
A tidying motion covering several unrelated constitutional problems at once, including diversity reporting requirements, repeated delays to elections, and transparency over co-options. Standing Orders Committee deleted seven words as contrary to the constitution and moved other parts to background text.
Proposed by Melanie Earp · 6 pages · 24 supporters
Lets the Wales Green Party Council put one additional motion to GPEW conference outside the prioritisation ballot where it concerns Wales, subject to the same objections and debate. It also makes the Wales Standing Orders Committee the final authority on interpreting Welsh constitutional matters.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by James Vessey-Miller · 8 pages · 24 supporters
Gives the recognised staff union one non-voting seat on both the party council and the executive, alongside the chief executive and existing non-voting members. The motion presents this as regularising existing practice so staff can be heard in operational governance.
Proposed by Anne Gayfer · 14 pages · 20 supporters
A set of changes to conference standing orders on the policy process, aligning them with current practice and improving guidance on accreditation. Most significantly it changes the number of objections needed to halt fast-tracking of a motion.
Proposed by Anne Gayfer · 8 pages · 15 supporters
Reverses the governance restructure passed as D05 at Autumn Conference 2025, returning the constitution to its post-2023 text while keeping the dissolution provisions and the Trade Union Committee. It would restore the Regional Council in its previous form and membership. The proposer argues the 2025 changes had unintended consequences and were made without proper member consultation.
Proposed by Andrew Hedges · 7 pages · 4 supporters
Rewrites the bye-law on selecting parliamentary candidates. It replaces the current hustings requirement with a fixed timetable of five to eight weeks where dissolution is not imminent, with an exceptional shortened procedure retained for a snap election.
Proposed by Rupert George · 6 pages
Would have written constitutional protections for local and regional party autonomy, preventing the national party from overriding their decisions and acting as a counterweight to a centralised national party and enlarged staff team. No motion text was published.
Proposed by Allan McLeod · 5 pages · 103 supporters
Expresses solidarity with members named in Canary articles, singling out a piece by David Miller on who filibustered the Zionism is Racism motion. The motion says the claims are largely unevidenced speculation and that publication has led to abuse of Jewish members and their families and to harassment of women in party governance addressing antisemitism, in some cases compromising personal safety.
Proposed by Kai Simmons · 6 pages · 14 supporters
Would have rewritten the clause defining local party boundaries, which currently requires them to be determinable from a postal address by reference to either parliamentary constituency or local authority. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Kyra McDonald · 5 pages
A governance restructure the proposer withdrew, stating it was being moved to spring conference because of the volume of motions submitted.
Proposed by Andrew Hedges · 7 pages · 26 supporters
Would have required Green MPs to attend local party meetings at least four times a year, and created a conference sovereignty mechanism letting members attach an amendment making a policy binding on Green MPs in parliamentary votes. Ruled out of order on two grounds.
Proposed by Ian Hedges · 7 pages · 4 supporters
The resubmitted conference sovereignty proposal, setting out a defined process with a right of appeal and amending the clause that currently lets representatives state their own position where they disagree with policy. Ruled out of order as contrary to the Philosophical Basis.
Proposed by Andrew Hedges · 7 pages · 24 supporters
The original parliamentary candidate selection motion, replacing the hustings requirement with a fixed five to eight week timetable and a requirement to email all eligible members a month ahead. Ruled out of order.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Andrew Hedges · 6 pages · 21 supporters
Would have replaced open attendance at autumn conference with elected local party delegations: two delegates for the first 200 members and one per additional 200, elected by STV four months ahead, at least half women or of minority genders, with an optional extra youth delegate and expenses covered by the local party. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Andrew Hedges · 7 pages · 4 supporters
Another resubmission of the parliamentary candidate selection timetable, matching the text later accepted as D33.
Proposed by Roger Mann · 7 pages
Would have created an elected IT and Digital Systems Coordinator on the executive, chosen through the annual ballot for a two-year term, advising on systems, digital infrastructure, data management, cyber security and procurement, with the party council able to vet candidates' suitability. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Roger Mann · 16 pages
Would have asked the executive and party council jointly to commission a governance review reporting within 14 months, examining national structures, accountability, transparency, staffing, capacity, campaign strategy, policy processes and the party's legal form. Included in the first agenda by mistake; it lacked enough co-proposers.
Proposed by Joseph Hudson-Small · 18 pages · 22 supporters
Bundled twelve separate constitutional proposals into one motion, covering fast-tracking, motion thresholds, ballot approval thresholds, the timing of the annual ballot and AGM, the size of Standing Orders Committee and the complaints referral group, regional top-up seats on the party council, and longer leadership terms. Ruled out of order because the synopsis did not say what the motion was about, and Standing Orders Committee said it would report the attempt to submit twelve motions as one as an abuse of process.
Proposed by Ben Hooper · 6 pages · 4 supporters
Would have barred anyone who is a landlord of land, housing or other leased property, directly or through a company they control, from standing as a Green parliamentary candidate, including anyone who has been one for more than six months in the preceding five years.
Proposed by Joe Hudson-Small · 10 pages · 4 supporters
A trimmed resubmission of A13 keeping four elements: simplifying fast-tracking, changing the vote of no confidence procedure to reduce filibustering, moving committee elections out of conference into the annual ballot, and adding regional top-up seats to the party council. The other eight proposals were dropped.
Proposed by Billy Lewis · 6 pages · 14 supporters
Would have built an open digital forum into the membership portal so branches, groups and individuals could coordinate and make announcements, ending reliance on Meta and Google platforms and lowering the barrier to joining working groups and local branches. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Rupert George · 8 pages · 13 supporters
Would have required the party council to elect three of its members to draft constitutional and code of conduct provisions governing staff behaviour, on the principle that staff, including those employed by elected Greens, should have no influence over internal democracy. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Melissa Harker · 5 pages
A placeholder for an enabling motion on the rights and responsibilities chapter, never filled in.
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 5 pages
Would have clarified the policy process as set out in conference standing orders. No motion text was published. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 5 pages
Would have clarified policy roles and processes in the constitution that have fallen out of step with recent changes. No motion text was published. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 8 pages · 17 supporters
Proposed a new Party Governance Committee to standardise how standing orders and governance documents are updated and approved. The motion argues decisions routinely happen behind closed doors and that unmandated, self-selecting or invisible groups hold excessive power over party processes. Ruled out of order.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 5 pages
Would have set out the party's processes and expectations for training governance bodies, local parties, special interest groups and staff. No motion text was published. Withdrawn.
Proposed by John Appleyard · 6 pages
Would have established a citizens' assembly model inside the party as an advisory body. Withdrawn before text was published.
Proposed by Andrea Grainger · 6 pages · 2 supporters
A placeholder asking the party to commit to acting on whatever problems the Unite the Union internal audit of Green Party workplace culture identifies, to be updated when the report is published.
Proposed by Martin Rose · 8 pages
Would have forced the executive, the party council and Standing Orders Committee to publish their minutes on the members' website, which the motion says the constitution already requires but which is avoided on the grounds that there is nowhere on the site to put them. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by Martin Rose · 7 pages
Would have given Spring Conference the same status as Autumn Conference, including the power to call an extraordinary conference, arguing that unfinished spring business simply rolls into autumn and creates a backlog. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by James Mochrie · 7 pages · 2 supporters
Would have fixed the constitutional wording requiring local parties to define boundaries 'either by parliamentary constituency or local authority', which frequently overlap, making it impossible to comply and blocking mergers unless every local party in an authority agrees. Prompted by six Somerset local parties trying to merge. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by GPEx · 9 pages · 3 supporters
An executive proposal to change how often and by what method membership subscription and capitation rates are agreed. Ruled out of order for not meeting the requirement for a proposer plus three other members and evidence of proper discussion.
Proposed by GPEx · 5 pages
The executive's recommended membership and capitation rates from 1 January 2027, requiring conference approval. Withdrawn before figures were published.
Proposed by Benjamin Stephenson · 5 pages
An enabling motion instructing the Policy Development Committee to create a working group on internal organisation. No motion text was published.
Proposed by Benjamin Stephenson · 7 pages · 14 supporters
Would have required a local party ballot before a sitting councillor or MP defects to the Green Party, arguing the current protocols are opaque, inconsistent with the requirement that local parties set democratic selection procedures, and increasingly significant given the number of defections. Ruled out of order as requiring no consequential action.
Proposed by Graham Tavener · 7 pages · 8 supporters
Would have instructed the leadership to begin consultative work with the Scottish Greens, the Green Party of Northern Ireland and Welsh Greens towards a federation or coalition under a Green Party UK banner with a single common leader, in time for the next general election. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by Camille Ainsworth · 6 pages · 8 supporters
Would have required a review of the party's staff pay framework taking account of geographical differences in living costs across England and Wales, and the effect of current pay on recruitment, retention and geographic diversity. Ruled out of order on both late motion tests.
Proposed by Ryan Ahmad · 4 pages
A member proposes himself to conduct an audit of the skills and experience available among party members, citing work alongside prime ministers, Cabinet Office security clearance and experience of more than £130 billion of government spending. Ruled out of order on both late motion tests.
Proposed by Jonathan Miles · 5 pages · 24 supporters
Would have created a dedicated Green Party spokesperson for health and social care, arguing the portfolio is too large to hand to an MP already carrying casework and another brief, and that without a Green voice the party's solutions get no public hearing and cannot be used to pressure government. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by LGBTIQA+ Greens · 9 pages · 24 supporters
Commits the party to campaign for the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and its replacement with a new statutory UK Human Rights and Equality Authority with guaranteed independence from ministers. Chairs and commissioners would be appointed with the approval of two parliamentary committees and no ministerial override, and the new body would face transparency requirements.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Allan McLeod · 14 pages · 38 supporters
Commits the party to lobby for, and in government enact, new protected characteristics under the Equality Act. These include social class, covering socioeconomic and educational background, homelessness history, job history and employment status, worded asymmetrically so it cannot be used by the advantaged, and domestic situation or parental status.
Proposed by Melissa Harker · 9 pages · 48 supporters
Argues that colonial, Eurocentric and misogynistic attitudes shaped elite sporting norms, and commits the party to challenge them. Sporting bodies enforcing bans affecting trans athletes would have to publish the scientific evidence, consultation reports and equality impact assessments behind them, and the Equality Act would be enforced to prevent exclusion from sport.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Morton Atkins · 7 pages · 27 supporters
Adds anti-Palestinian racism, Sikhophobia and Hinduphobia to the list of racisms named in the party's anti-racism policy statement, alongside antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Blackness and antigypsyism. Two further amendments would add cultural appropriation as a form of racism and insert a working definition of racism.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Sebastian Moss · 12 pages · 23 supporters
Condemns NHS England's decommissioning of puberty blockers for trans and gender diverse young people and the subsequent private-sector prescribing restrictions, and says recent developments including the Cass review and the Appleby report have been unduly influenced by actors opposed to trans rights. It calls for the restrictions to be reversed and for an unbiased review.
Proposed by Louise Newberry · 9 pages · 14 supporters
Commits the party to publicly challenge government reviews that fail to follow scientific best practice, naming drugs policy, ADHD, ME/CFS and trans healthcare as areas where it says evidence has been misused. It would require published registers of interest for review staff, public disclosure of memberships of pressure groups, and conflict-of-interest checks.
Proposed by Sophus Magill · 8 pages · 26 supporters
Commits the party to stand with all victims of domestic and sexual abuse regardless of gender, sex or orientation, while recognising the role of sexist and patriarchal attitudes. It calls for better support services and gender-neutral consent and healthy relationships education, and for this framing to be carried into the national manifesto. Prompted by the 2024 manifesto mentioning these crimes only in relation to women and girls.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Allan McLeod · 6 pages · 14 supporters
Creates higher corporation tax bands tied to the gender pay gap. A business required to report its gap that exceeds 1.5 times the national average would pay 1.5 times the normal corporation tax rate, and one exceeding three times the average would pay double.
Proposed by Tariq Khawaja · 12 pages · 176 supporters
Condemns the racist smear campaign the motion says contributed to the death of Professor Jason Arday and criticises Cambridge University's institutional failure. It asks party communications, including Global Majority officers, to create a rapid response protocol for members targeted by coordinated racist smears, with legal and welfare signposting, and asks the executive to review how party-affiliated media handle allegations against individuals.
Proposed by Patrick Thelwell · 6 pages · 75 supporters
Addresses misogyny inside the party, including misogyny directed at trans women and transfeminine people, through education, intersectional training, accessible facilitation and mediation, and confidential support for women, non-binary and trans members, candidates and representatives. It stresses that informal or restorative routes must be voluntary and must never replace or delay formal processes.
Proposed by John Le Marchant Dane · 6 pages · 212 supporters
Responds to the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee pausing, on 27 September, all gender-affirming surgeries referred by the Welsh Gender Service, Wales's only gender identity clinic. The motion says the committee acted beyond its brief on a moral rather than clinical basis, and commits the party to oppose the decision. It carries 212 supporters, the most of any late motion.
Proposed by Antony Hinkes · 5 pages
Would have set up a working group to define the words 'man' and 'woman' as used in trans rights policy clause RR530, arguing that without definitions the policy that trans men are men and trans women are women is meaningless and that discussion of the subject has been effectively closed off. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by John Appleyard · 8 pages
Would have replaced the EHRC with separate commissions for each protected characteristic, elected on ballots held alongside elections to a reformed second chamber and excluding political parties. Also proposed keeping life peers as non-voting members with speaking rights. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Ferha Syed · 11 pages · 22 supporters
Would have adopted social location as the party's framework for considering equality and racism, on the argument that party processes should not create a hierarchy between forms of racism or give exceptional treatment to particular forms of discrimination. Ruled out of order on two grounds.
Proposed by John Appleyard · 14 pages · 4 supporters
Proposed replacing the EHRC with elected rights commissions for civil liberties and each identity-based protected characteristic, arguing the February 2026 High Court ruling and the commission's statutory code of practice entrenched the exclusion of trans and intersex people from facilities matching their lived gender. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Maud Waret · 7 pages
Would have set up an expert advisory committee, working with practitioners, academics, trade unions and affected communities, to develop a national anti-racism framework for public sector professional standards across education, healthcare, policing and the civil service, grounded in critical race theory.
Proposed by Shabaan Saleem · 6 pages · 3 supporters
Would have called for a national inquiry into systemic and institutional racism across policing, criminal justice, health, education, housing, employment and public services, on the argument that previous inquiries identified the problems but their recommendations were never fully implemented. Ruled out of order on both late motion tests.
Proposed by Sophus Magill · 4 pages
An earlier submission of the gender-inclusive domestic and sexual abuse motion, prompted by the 2024 manifesto mentioning these crimes only in relation to women and girls. Withdrawn and later resubmitted as E35.
Proposed by Lucifer Severine · 6 pages
Inserts a new opening clause into the party's Philosophical Basis naming capitalism as fundamentally incompatible with democracy, ecological sustainability and social justice, and committing the party to democratic eco-socialism. It says essential services, natural resources and the natural world should be stewarded for present and future generations and protected from exploitation, while leaving room for limited private enterprise under democratic oversight. A composite of motions A14 and A95, it needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Lucy Severine · 5 pages
The composite version of the eco-socialism motions, inserting a new clause at the start of the Philosophical Basis. It names capitalism as incompatible with democracy and sustainability and commits the party to democratic eco-socialism, with essential services and natural resources collectively owned and stewarded, and democratic control over work, education and housing.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Lucifer Severine · 6 pages · 34 supporters
Inserts a new clause PB107 stating that a sustainable society means democracy at work, in education and in housing, and declaring the Green Party an eco-socialist party because the society it seeks cannot be realised under capitalism. It defines capitalism and ecosocialism in the Philosophical Basis itself, and needs a two-thirds majority.
3 amendments tabled
Proposed by Joseph Hudson-Small · 7 pages · 60 supporters
The democratic socialism version of the same Philosophical Basis change, naming capitalism as the root cause of the inequalities the party already criticises. It says the economy should be judged by its contribution to wellbeing, equality and sustainability, and that essential services and natural resources should be managed in the public interest. It attracted seven amendments, several pushing it further towards collective ownership.
7 amendments tabled
Proposed by Patrick Thelwell · 22 pages · 47 supporters
Amends the Strategy section of the Philosophical Basis to embed anti-fascism in how the party communicates, campaigns, governs, organises and works internationally. Standing Orders Committee split the original into two motions and moved much of the supporting argument into a background paper, which the proposer's own amendment tries to reinstate.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Petra Codato · 10 pages · 42 supporters
Inserts a new clause PB304 into the Philosophical Basis committing the party to intersectional ecofeminism, on the argument that injustices against women and girls, other marginalised genders and the more-than-human world share a root in patriarchal ideology. Standing Orders Committee ruled parts of the original out of order and moved others to background.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Racism Policy Working Group · 8 pages · 7 supporters
Requires Green-led or Green-influenced councils to carry out an economic justice and racial equity audit within their first year, reviewing three to five years of procurement, commissioning, grants, asset ownership and disposal, leases, rents, developer contributions and neighbourhood investment. It also requires a procurement review to open contracts to small businesses, cooperatives and voluntary sector organisations.
Proposed by nicolehaydock · 6 pages · 13 supporters
Asks the executive to fund legal professionals to work with a Co-operative Model Working Group on drafting a new Memorandum and Articles of Association based on cooperative principles, building on a 2015 scoping paper. The draft would go to Co-operatives UK and the Financial Conduct Authority by March 2027.
Proposed by Sophus Magill · 15 pages · 13 supporters
Rewrites the party's core values into a shorter, more communicable form. The proposed version leads with 'Justice for People and Planet' and 'Quality of Life over Profit', arguing economic, social and environmental threats are one problem and that success cannot be measured by narrow economic indicators. Requires a two-thirds majority.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Patrick Thelwell · 14 pages
A short enabling motion instructing the Policy Development Committee to create an Anti-Fascist Policy Working Group with a mandate to bring a new chapter of anti-fascist policy to future conferences. Separated out by Standing Orders Committee from the anti-fascism motion D16.
Proposed by Petra Codato · 5 pages
A short enabling motion instructing the Policy Development Committee to create an intersectional ecofeminist policy working group with a mandate to bring a new policy chapter to a future conference, aligning policy with the Philosophical Basis change proposed in D17.
Proposed by Robert Magowan · 5 pages
A placeholder for a new political strategy. No text was published.
Proposed by Mark Shotter · 5 pages · 57 supporters
Argues that Andy Burnham's election as Labour leader and prime minister is likely to produce a 'Burnham Bounce' that costs the Greens votes, as happened at the Manchester mayoral election, and that disillusioned Labour voters the party hoped to win will now give Burnham a chance. It calls for local election literature to spell out where Green policy differs from a Burnham-led Labour. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Martha James · 20 pages
This report, after a brief introduction, comments on (1) The Final Agenda and Ordering of Motions for Conference; (2) a notification of motions and amendments ruled out of order and where these are published; (3) A report on SOC’s participation in the Agenda process including any motions or amendments that SOC is submitting to Conference; (4) timetabling, chairing, and other procedural matters affecting conference including elections to be held at Conference, with the recommendations of SOC; (5) the report of the ERO; (6) proposed changes to Standing Orders for the Conduct of Conference (SOCC); (7) a report by SOC on any changes they have adopted to their Standing Orders; (8) rulings…
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Martha James · 80 pages
This section contains all the SOC rulings since Spring Conference
Proposed by Lumin Tucker McLellan · 10 pages
The PDC submits this report to Autumn Conference 2026 in accordance with theclause 14i of the Constitution and Standing Orders for the Conduct of Conference (SOCC). This report covers PDC's activities since the previous report, including: support provided to Policy Working Groups (PWGs) and members; accreditation of motions for Conference; updates to PDC Standing Orders and PWG governance, and; policy development coordination and training The addenda to this report contain the updated Standing Orders for PDC (SOPDC), Standing Orders for Policy Working Groups (SOPWG), and an example Terms of Reference for a PWG.
Proposed by Green Party Council · 9 pages
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Proposed by Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee · 6 pages
Proposed by Evie Earp · 7 pages · 19 supporters
Instructs the executive to create a concessionary conference ticket for under-18 members with full voting rights, priced at the same proportion of the full ticket as the concessionary membership rate is of full membership, currently 10%. An unaccompanied child would be entitled to a carer ticket, which carries no voting rights.
Proposed by Roger Mann · 5 pages
Would have let Standing Orders Committee and Conferences Committee call a one-day online continuation plenary within 45 days where conference ran out of time, to stop motions waiting six or twelve months and a backlog building. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Green Party Council · 5 pages
A political strategy update from the party council. No text was published.
Proposed by Code of Conduct Oversight Group · 14 pages
The Code of Conduct Oversight Group's report. No text was published.
Proposed by Katherine Grant · 7 pages · 28 supporters
Would have mobilised members behind the National Emergency Briefing campaign, which is pressing for a Covid-style prime-time televised government briefing on climate and nature risk. The campaign briefed over 1,200 politicians, including Zack Polanski, at a London event last November.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Jonathan Miles · 4 pages · 8 supporters
Argues that submitting entire policy chapters as single motions is undemocratic, leaving members to accept or reject whole documents drafted by a handful of working group members rather than debating individual points. It proposes that policy be brought as smaller motions instead. Ruled out of order on both late motion tests.
Proposed by Peace, Security and Defence PWG · 15 pages · 8 supporters
Updates five sections of peace, security and defence policy: outer space, where the party would work to prevent an arms race and clean up orbital debris; cyber security; the effect of Brexit on EU and Northern Ireland security; and nuclear weapons. It also commits a Green government to initiate a comprehensive defence review.
Proposed by Valentina Butenko · 21 pages · 29 supporters
Calls for Ukrainian voices to be central to negotiations and reconstruction, with Ukraine's territory and resources under democratic control rather than serving oligarchs. It asks the UK to close fossil-fuel sanctions loopholes, strengthen sanctions on the Russian state and complicit corporations, transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, and increase both humanitarian and military aid.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Ashok Kumar · 8 pages · 106 supporters
Calls on the UK to pursue diplomatic normalisation with Iran, lift broad economic sanctions that harm civilians while keeping targeted measures, and oppose sanctions as collective punishment. Most contentiously it opposes proscribing Iranian state institutions including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which drew an amendment to strike that clause and a further amendment opposing the first.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Raeeka Yassaie · 9 pages · 55 supporters
Requires Green elected members to demand the release of detained Iranian protesters and political prisoners, to ease sanctions that hit civilians, and to press for the expulsion of Iranian diplomats until protesters' rights are respected. It proposes financially proscribing the IRGC while repealing sections 11 to 13 of the Terrorism Act.
Proposed by Paul Ingram · 12 pages · 26 supporters
Commits the party to explicitly oppose increases in military spending, arguing it drives the security dilemma, is already sufficient, and is wasted on defence industry profits and prestige projects. It proposes cancelling large legacy programmes and redirecting towards low-cost networked systems, and amends policy to build common security with other countries.
Proposed by Samuel Murray · 9 pages · 17 supporters
Recognises the right to self-determination of the Bashkort, Buryat, Chechen, Circassian, Cossack, Erzya, Ingrian, Kalmyk, Moksha, Sakha and Tatar peoples, and condemns Russian imperialism. It commits the party to support the Free Nations League and to call for independent investigation of arbitrary detention, torture, forced conscription and sexual exploitation.
Proposed by Huw Sparkes · 6 pages · 9 supporters
An enabling motion instructing the Policy Development Committee to start a formal review of terrorism policy, clauses PSD410 to PSD420, through a counter-terror policy working group working with the crime and justice, international, and rights and responsibilities groups. It would cover physical, mental and online aspects, and state-sponsored terrorism.
Proposed by Adam Lawson · 8 pages · 15 supporters
Would have shifted NATO policy to a position that the alliance in its current form is not sustainable because it is too dominated by the United States, while accepting that leaving is impractical without building an alternative first, and revised missile defence policy to fit the party's opposition to nuclear weapons. Ruled out of order for insufficient consultation.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Barney Iley · 9 pages · 28 supporters
Would have committed the party, its leadership and elected representatives to oppose rising military spending, noting Keir Starmer's commitment to more than double the military budget over a decade at a cost of an extra £280 billion, which the motion says is worth more than seven times the Affordable Homes Programme. Ruled out of order on appeal.
Proposed by Tom Woolmore · 43 pages · 25 supporters
A substantial rewrite of defence policy covering treaties, outer space, security, defence, military forces, drones and the arms trade, intended to lend the party strategic credibility. Ruled out of order after the Policy Development Committee advised there had been insufficient consultation, a decision upheld on appeal.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Huw Sparkes · 6 pages · 29 supporters
The original terrorism policy review, proposing that the peace, security and defence, crime and justice, and international working groups, plus the Global Majority, Muslim, Jewish and Young Greens groups, rewrite the terrorism section last approved in 2023. Later resubmitted successfully as E47.
Proposed by Animal Rights PWG and Wildlife & Habitats PWG · 44 pages · 27 supporters
Replaces animal rights clause AR423 in full, reframing 'pest and vermin control' as 'wildlife management' and accepting that animals suffer under current methods. Elected Greens would create a recognised wildlife-management qualification with a code of practice, and legislate to ban the cruellest methods, including rodent glue traps, snares, Larsen traps and electrical deterrents.
Proposed by Climate Emergency Policy Working Group · 63 pages · 8 supporters
Expands and strengthens the existing carbon pricing framework rather than replacing it with a single carbon tax, rewriting clauses EC777 and EC778. Land and livestock emissions outside the built environment stay outside the tax and are handled through land management support and planning. Part of the revenue would be returned as dividends to residents.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Food & Agriculture PWG · 57 pages · 16 supporters
Tightens the target for cutting nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution from agriculture into water from 50% to 75% by 2035 against a 2018 baseline, and ties it to returning within biogeochemical planetary boundaries while strengthening food sovereignty. Addresses both runoff damage to rivers and the security risk from global phosphorus supply shocks.
Proposed by Land Use policy working group · 14 pages · 23 supporters
Consolidates the party's scattered positions on Crown Estate land into a single policy, replacing inconsistent references in Policies for a Sustainable Society and the 2024 manifesto. It adds an end to the Sovereign Grant to the existing clause abolishing the monarchy's governmental role.
Proposed by Racism Policy Working Group · 10 pages · 14 supporters
Commits the party to a national river and catchment restoration programme, prioritising the most polluted, flood-prone and water-stressed catchments, each with a published restoration plan and targets. It calls for democratically accountable catchment governance bringing together councils, regulators, publicly owned water companies, farmers and communities.
Proposed by Adrian Ramsay · 24 pages · 32 supporters
Backs the Zero Hour campaign for a Nature and National Security Bill, treating nature loss as a national security priority rather than only an environmental one. It frames ecological collapse as a threat multiplier driving food insecurity, infrastructure damage and geopolitical instability, and argues security spending should reflect that.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Matt Browne · 7 pages · 24 supporters
A policy statement supporting the managed reintroduction of Eurasian lynx to selected sites in England, on the grounds that the lynx shaped English woodland ecosystems, kept deer numbers in check and aided woodland regeneration. It cites evidence from the Missing Lynx Project.
Proposed by Seb Matthews · 13 pages
Would have required mandatory environmental assessments, energy efficiency standards, fair grid access and meaningful community engagement for large data centres, and challenged green belt encroachment, critical infrastructure classification and the economic claims used to justify planning approval. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Leila Gómez Fernández · 9 pages · 6 supporters
Would have imposed a moratorium on new large-scale land-based fish farms, citing the proposed Cleethorpes facility, and arguing recirculating aquaculture systems use up to three times the energy of sea-cage farming, require significant freshwater abstraction in water-stressed catchments and rely on wild-caught fish for feed. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers, which Standing Orders Committee admits it flagged late.
Proposed by Leila Gómez Fernández · 51 pages · 2 supporters
A resubmission of the land-based fish farm moratorium with the same arguments about energy use, freshwater abstraction and reliance on wild-caught feed. Also ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Greg Dring · 34 pages · 8 supporters
Would have required government to introduce fair distribution, effectively rationing, of meat, dairy, petrol, diesel and flights, on the argument that as climate shortages push up prices poorer consumers are priced out. It deletes the word 'possible' before carbon rationing in the climate chapter. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Animah Kosai · 8 pages · 99 supporters
Instructs Green councillors across England and Wales to put BDS motions to their councils. Objectives include full public disclosure by local government pension funds of holdings in complicit companies, divestment of those holdings, regular due diligence on contracts and supply chains against international humanitarian law, ending contracts with complicit organisations, and moving council banking away from Barclays to ethical banks.
Proposed by Kyra McDonald · 6 pages · 51 supporters
Instructs the party executive and council to boycott every company on the BDS lists, and requires the chief executive to report annually to the AGM listing which BDS-listed companies the party uses, the status and timeline of the boycott, and what replacements have been found.
Proposed by Lubna Speitan · 22 pages · 745 supporters
Defines Zionism as a political ideology calling for an ethnonationalist Jewish state in historic Palestine to the exclusion or domination of the non-Jewish population, and declares the Green Party an anti-Zionist party. It rejects equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism and supports a single democratic Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine. The most contested item on the agenda, with 745 supporters and 12 amendments, several attempting to safeguard Jewish members or limit disciplinary use of the policy.
12 amendments tabled
Proposed by George Walton · 11 pages · 52 supporters
An alternative, consensus-seeking Palestine motion. It affirms that Israel is an ethnonationalist state characterised by apartheid, racism, ethnic cleansing and genocide, condemns antisemitism and attempts to conflate it with criticism of Israel, and sets out steps towards ending impunity. Eight amendments were tabled, including one rejecting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which was ruled out of order.
8 amendments tabled
Proposed by Amina Mukhtar · 13 pages · 94 supporters
Commits the party to expose, disrupt, dismantle and support in response to what it terms the genocide in Sudan, including confronting UK and third-party complicity through arms exports, re-export failures and economic partnerships, and severing political, military and economic ties with those enabling the violence.
Proposed by Thomas Shaw · 16 pages · 22 supporters
Recognises ongoing genocides in Sudan, Myanmar, Xinjiang, West Papua and Ukraine and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh. It names and condemns the presidents of Azerbaijan, the UAE and Indonesia, and calls for arms embargoes and targeted sanctions against each, extending the precedent set by the party's position on Gaza.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Natalie Kopytko · 10 pages · 15 supporters
Commits the party to support the Baloch people's struggle for human rights, democracy and self-determination across Pakistan and Iran. It demands the UK condemn Pakistan's human rights abuses in Balochistan, press for the release of detained activists including Mahrang Baloch, and review its aid and relations with Pakistan.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Morton Atkins · 4 pages · 109 supporters
Responds to what the WHO says is on track to be the worst Ebola outbreak in history, with over 2,500 dead and more than 5,000 cases of the Bundibugyo species recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It instructs Green parliamentarians to use statements, PMQs, early day motions and letters to ministers to press the UK government to increase support.
Proposed by Shankar V · 7 pages · 8 supporters
Would have created a universal framework for assessing and responding to international communal oppression, identifying unacceptable behaviours without naming particular states, intended to avoid the party's own prejudices and provide an impartial basis for setting boundaries. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by Nick Cheel · 6 pages · 20 supporters
Would have pressed for UK legislation on the model of the Irish law of 23 July 2026 making trade in goods with organisations maintaining the Israeli occupation unlawful, with similar bills progressing in Belgium and the Netherlands. The proposer cites over 1,000 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire and escalating settler violence. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Amanda Onwuemene · 6 pages · 24 supporters
Amends the Standing Orders for Party Discipline to remove the complainant's ability to request a no-fault suspension as part of their complaint. Instead the Referral Group would have to judge that the subject poses a risk before asking the party council to impose one. The proposer argues the current route invites bias and unfairness.
Proposed by Disabled Greens & DPWG · 7 pages · 16 supporters
Instructs Disabled Greens and the Disability Policy Working Group to form a Disability Inclusion Working Group to produce a plan for combating ableism in the party, including a pack for local and regional parties and a toolkit for elected members. The policy group would also review the Target To Win campaign strategy, which the motion says is currently used in explicitly exclusionary ways.
Proposed by Animah Kosai · 8 pages · 23 supporters
Sets up a dedicated group to review the party's complaints and disciplinary process with human rights and justice lawyers and the relevant party bodies, reporting a framework to the next conference and detailed rule changes by Autumn 2027. The review must be transparent and published to members, and must build in natural justice including the right of respondents to defend themselves.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by William Parnell · 13 pages · 20 supporters
Rewrites constitutional clause 4.8(viii), which currently lets the party council suspend or expel members. The motion tackles what the proposer calls the most egregious problems ahead of a fuller rewrite, including limiting how long a temporary suspension can run before a disciplinary decision.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Joe Hudson-Small · 63 pages · 5 supporters
A full rewrite of the disputes and complaints process drawing on conference workshops, working groups, staff experience, industry practice and legal advice. Standing Orders Committee ruled several sections out of order, including provisions letting disciplinary committee co-chairs restrict a disruptive member's participation.
Proposed by Kyra McDonald · 10 pages · 16 supporters
Would have created an independent national committee to help members navigate party governance and the complaints system and to advocate for members' rights, kept separate from the party council on the grounds that the body which supports members should not also be the one that suspends and expels them. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Kyra McDonald · 11 pages · 5 supporters
The resubmitted version of the member advocacy committee. Ruled partly out of order for failing to define the boundary between the new body and existing party structures.
Proposed by Ferha Syed · 5 pages
Would have benchmarked the party's complaints and discipline framework against government, regulatory and private sector equivalents and allowed the disciplinary standing orders to be updated with legal advice immediately, without a membership ballot. Ruled out of order and short of co-proposers.
Proposed by Prashant Kumbhat · 9 pages · 21 supporters
Would have commissioned an independent organisation with expertise in systemic racism to review the Member Speaking Out procedure, required publication of anonymised data on open complaints and how far they have progressed, and required the leadership to respond to every open complainant with a resolution timeframe. Ruled out of order.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Joseph Hudson-Small · 53 pages · 23 supporters
The original submission of the full disputes and complaints rewrite later resubmitted as D35. Ruled out of order on three separate grounds.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Economy Policy Working Group · 11 pages · 54 supporters
Replaces the national economy section with a new framework for central government economic management. The Office for Budget Responsibility would become an Office for Fiscal Transparency, and rather than targeting debt or deficit through rigid fiscal rules, a new Fiscal Policy Committee would recommend a target. The aim is to fund economic transformation without being constrained by holders of capital.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Economy Policy Working Group · 15 pages · 12 supporters
Rewrites the business section of the economy chapter, deleting a block of existing clauses. It adds support for small businesses and for cooperative and employee-owned models, introduces levers against corporate monopoly power, brings private equity and venture capital under control, and drops the dated concept of the third sector.
Proposed by Food & Agriculture PWG · 13 pages · 17 supporters
A package of measures for pubs, restaurants, bars and cafes: raising the Employers Allowance to take more small businesses out of employer National Insurance, letting councils grant business rate exemptions and control rents for independents, decoupling electricity prices from gas, establishing community banks, and eventually replacing business rates with a land value tax.
Proposed by James Meadway · 8 pages · 14 supporters
Calls for the Bank of England's mandate under the 1998 Act to be revised, arguing that with inflation increasingly driven by geopolitical shocks and climate impacts the Bank cannot influence, using the base rate as a single blunt tool raises household costs and slows the green transition without addressing the cause.
Proposed by Michael Chessum · 5 pages · 134 supporters
Responds to the anti-austerity summit hosted by Hackney Council on 9 September, which agreed a set of demands, mobilisation for an eve-of-Budget demonstration on 27 October and an ongoing Anti-Austerity Coalition. It notes councils have lost around 40% of central government funding since 2010, and commits the party to help build a mass movement funded by taxing the rich and big business.
Proposed by Nick Robins · 9 pages · 3 supporters
Would have backed investigation of an extreme weather levy on the value of UK investments in fossil fuel assets globally, complementing carbon pricing by targeting the investment side, rewarding reallocation to zero-carbon assets and raising revenue for climate action at home and in developing countries. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Economy Policy Working Group · 40 pages · 6 supporters
Would have replaced the intellectual property section of the economy chapter, shifting from what the proposers call an anti-IP position to a more balanced one working through the European Patent Office and WIPO, supporting innovators with limited resources including in the global south while preventing abuse by large corporations. Withdrawn.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by David Rose · 4 pages · 4 supporters
Would have put Modern Monetary Theory at the centre of economic policy, making the core fiscal rule that inflation should not outpace the skills and resources in the economy rather than balancing the books, followed by updating policy documents and a public awareness campaign. Ruled out of order as not arising since the pre-agenda deadline.
Proposed by Michael Clare · 5 pages
Would have abolished National Insurance and replaced it with two taxes, on turnover and on profit, calculated per million pounds so that businesses with fewer employees per unit of turnover pay a higher rate, on the argument that National Insurance taxes employing people but not automation or AI. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Georgina Hollifield · 5 pages · 74 supporters
Would have committed the party to investigate the Teesworks project for corruption and to examine the effect of the transfer of public assets into private hands on local communities. It links decades of underinvestment in Teesside to the loss of community assets, the embedding of organised crime and recent violence and unrest in Middlesbrough. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by GPEW Asylum & Migration Policy Working group · 12 pages · 25 supporters
A short policy statement calling on the Home Office not to use artificial intelligence in any form to assess asylum claims, on the basis that people seeking refuge deserve to have their cases heard in full and in person. Prompted by a Home Office pilot and the proposed use of AI in age assessments.
Proposed by Morton Atkins · 8 pages · 33 supporters
Adds video games to the definition of culture in policy, and creates a new clause preventing companies from shutting down online services that leave purchased games unplayable. Companies would have to make alternative provision before switching off infrastructure. An amendment would go further and decriminalise piracy for preservation by public institutions and for commercially unavailable games.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Alexander Sallons · 6 pages · 30 supporters
Opposes a social media ban for under-16s as an infringement of young people's rights to free speech, assembly and social interaction, and as digital ID by the back door. It argues the answer is regulating social media companies rather than excluding young people, particularly after cuts to youth services.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Robert Garner · 9 pages · 17 supporters
Calls for bans on identity verification for online services outside e-commerce, banking and government; on ID-based age verification; on video selfies and 3D face scans; and on verification services run by non-UK companies or on servers outside UK jurisdiction. It proposes an education-based approach to online safety instead, with a government site explaining device-level parental controls.
Proposed by Em Dean · 6 pages · 81 supporters
Calls for an immediate moratorium on new data centres pending a review of regulation and standards, urgently applying Ofgem's proposed energy use levy to new builds, and cutting commercial and industrial water abstraction limits. Data centres would lose critical national infrastructure status absent a demonstrated case, fall under general industrial planning use, and face minimum water and energy efficiency standards, with new marginal power and water taxes on large industrial consumers.
Proposed by Jacqueline Bond · 9 pages · 92 supporters
The late version of the AI data centre moratorium, qualifying as late because conditions changed after the pre-agenda deadline: July 2026 was the driest and sunniest July on record for England and Wales, nearly three-quarters of England is in drought, 78% of rivers are running below normal and reservoir storage has fallen to 66%. It caps new AI data centres above 40MW grid import and ends planning privileges that override local consent.
Proposed by Jacqueline Bond · 25 pages · 31 supporters
The fuller version of the AI data centre moratorium, covering facilities above 40MW grid import and an 'AI signature' threshold, ending planning privileges that override local consent, barring public subsidy, prioritising households for grid and water, and adding anti-monopoly measures and independent oversight.
Proposed by Michael Payne · 8 pages · 5 supporters
Proposed publicly accountable, non-commercial digital spaces as alternatives to advertising-funded platforms, arguing that data extraction, behavioural profiling, addictive design and opaque algorithms have created democratic and social harms. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Steven Ratheram · 6 pages · 11 supporters
Would have committed the party to open source, decentralised and self-hostable digital technology, with a presumption of free and open source software for public digital services and a preference for systems that can be self-hosted, audited and shared. It cites Bitcoin as the only widely deployed adversarially-tested example with evidence of reducing renewable curtailment. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Steven Ratheram · 5 pages · 9 supporters
Would have commissioned a review of whether the party's digital systems, security and governance remain fit for purpose, noting membership has passed 230,000 and citing a heightened cyber threat environment and the party's increased political prominence. Ruled out of order on both late motion tests.
Proposed by Transport Policy Working Group · 36 pages · 18 supporters
A full rewrite of the transport chapter of Policies for a Sustainable Society, the first major revision in about two decades. It argues most personal travel by road and air is done by wealthier people while poorer people bear the consequences, and that car dominance in planning decisions forces many into car use they cannot afford. The paper covers rural buses, aviation, speed limits, road pricing and the funding of rail and mass transit.
6 amendments tabled
Proposed by Marine and Coastal Policy Working Group · 163 pages · 23 supporters
Replaces the marine and coastal chapter of Policies for a Sustainable Society in its entirety. It is organised around ecosystem regeneration, coastal communities and economies, and large-scale marine industry, covering marine protected areas, the high seas, plastics, marine litter, noise and light pollution, ocean acidification, regenerative fisheries and offshore energy. First brought as a draft in 2024 and revised through consultation since.
3 amendments tabled
Proposed by Health Policy Working Group · 296 pages · 18 supporters
Replaces the health chapter of Policies for a Sustainable Society with a new policy built around five objectives: ending health inequity, embedding health across all policy, delivering a publicly owned and publicly provided NHS, and acting on the wider determinants of health. Specific sections cover public health capacity, pre-conception and maternity services, early years, child and adolescent mental health, and neuro-affirmative services.
4 amendments tabled
Proposed by Culture Media and Sport Policy Working Group · 105 pages · 12 supporters
A complete rewrite of the culture, media and sport chapter, which last passed in 2007 and was updated in 2014. Drafted after consultation with more than 80 organisations and over 70 party members and groups, it treats culture, media and sport as shared infrastructure sustaining communities, from grassroots music venues to playing pitches and broadband.
4 amendments tabled
Proposed by Crime and Justice Policy Working Group · 24 pages · 5 supporters
The first part of a rewritten crime and justice chapter, replacing sections CJ100 to CJ313, CJ320 to CJ322 and CJ400. It covers the structure of the legal system, devolution in Wales, access to justice, retention of criminal records, court accessibility and youth justice, and commits to sanctions that do not perpetuate existing social inequalities. Policing, prisons, probation and specific offences are held over to later papers.
Proposed by Crime and Justice Policy Working Group · 6 pages · 4 supporters
A short enabling motion asking conference to let the Crime and Justice Policy Working Group continue beyond Part 1 and bring further voting papers to subsequent conferences, as the rewrite instructed in 2024 is still unfinished.
Proposed by Pollution Policy Working Group · 90 pages · 11 supporters
The draft voting paper rewriting the pollution chapter, agreed for revision at Autumn 2025 conference with a final paper due by autumn 2027. It sets out general principles followed by sections on specific pollutants and affected environments including air, water and soil, and ends with governance and the financial implications of the policies. Externally reviewed.
Proposed by Education Policy Working Group · 44 pages · 15 supporters
The second version of the draft education chapter, following member feedback on the first version in 2025 and actioning the 2024 enabling motion. The existing chapter dates from 2009 with its last significant update in 2015. The draft covers values and purpose of education, equity and inclusion, and aims to give campaigners a clearer framework.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Democracy, Government & Constitution Policy Working Group · 18 pages · 6 supporters
The draft voting paper replacing the public administration and government chapter, renamed Democracy, Government and Constitution. It covers electoral reform, the electoral and boundary commissions, party funding and donations, election spending, regulation of referenda, local and regional government in England, the devolved legislatures, the Commons, a second and third chamber, the monarchy and the Church of England, the civil service and the constitution.
3 amendments tabled
Proposed by Mark Ross · 11 pages · 23 supporters
Opposes the government's reclassification of animal testing and breeding facilities as key national infrastructure, which the motion says criminalises peaceful protest to shield private industry. It calls for repeal of those regulations and of the cumulative disruption powers and face covering restrictions in the Crime and Policing Act 2026, and supports the legal challenge.
Proposed by Crime and Justice Policy Working Group · 7 pages · 5 supporters
A policy statement opposing the use of criminal law to restrain protest through the Crime and Policing Act, arguing that protest is necessarily disruptive to those in power and that the approach further erodes trust between police and communities. It calls on Green parliamentarians to work to reverse the provisions.
Proposed by Racism Policy Working Group · 10 pages · 15 supporters
A package of immigration commitments: no retrospective worsening of settlement, dependant, family or language requirements for people already in the UK, with full transitional protection; an end to employer-tied visas in favour of portable or union-backed sponsorship; and stronger modern slavery protections covering recruitment debt, withheld wages and immigration threats.
Proposed by Vicki Beere · 6 pages · 19 supporters
Abandons the current approach of naming and separately regulating fourteen different drugs, which the Drug Policy Working Group says leaves policy permanently out of date and hard to defend, with new products entering the illicit market unaccounted for. The motion enables work on a voting paper setting out a single standard regulatory model.
Proposed by Peter Allen · 5 pages
Would have committed the party, with other Green parties, to organise ongoing protests throughout the 2027 G20 summit in Manchester demanding international climate and nature action, and to set up an organising group immediately. Withdrawn.
Proposed by Norah Patricia Mary Chanse · 5 pages · 62 supporters
Would have committed the party to judicial reform in miscarriage of justice cases, on the argument that after conviction for serious offences the system defends itself rather than seeking the truth, and identifying three areas of the justice system needing specific reform. Ruled out of order as not arising since the pre-agenda deadline.
Proposed by Climate Emergency Policy Working Group · 20 pages · 18 supporters
Amends climate chapter clause CC017 so that contrails and aviation-induced cirrus are described as producing a net warming effect rather than treated as water vapour, and adds reduced aviation to the list of measures cutting indirect greenhouse gases. Also tightens the target reductions for transport use to match the party's climate targets.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Energy Policy Working Group · 50 pages · 57 supporters
Rewrites the electricity generation section to align with planetary boundaries. Generation would be based primarily on offshore wind, onshore wind and rooftop solar, and, significantly, nuclear fission is added to the list of low-carbon sources, dropping the party's blanket opposition. The chapter is reordered to separate generation from storage and grid balancing.
3 amendments tabled
Proposed by Dylan Lewis-Creser · 6 pages · 57 supporters
Commits a Green government to establish a nationalised housebuilder replacing Homes England, with a capital budget to develop new housing schemes addressing affordability, tenure, density, urban design, infrastructure, transport and quality. Attracted five amendments, including one from the Housing Policy Working Group recasting it as a national social housing delivery agency.
5 amendments tabled
Proposed by Thomas Atkin-Withers · 7 pages · 19 supporters
Argues better international rail is the alternative to airport expansion, with connections from English regions, Wales and Scotland to the continent by day and overnight. It proposes passport checks on trains rather than before boarding, regaining the state's stake in Eurostar sold by the coalition, and building a new international depot on HS1.
Proposed by Energy Policy Working Group · 35 pages · 17 supporters
Sets numerical limits on energy inequality: the highest-consuming 1% should use no more than 5% of total energy, the highest 10% no more than 20%, and the lowest-consuming half should account for at least 35%. It also guarantees sufficient energy for basic material security for everyone and hardens opposition to fossil fuel subsidies.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Ben Hooper · 8 pages · 14 supporters
Would have renamed the Trade Union Liaison Committee the Trade and Tenant Union Liaison Committee and expanded its remit to tenant unions and similar working-class organisations based on direct action and collective bargaining. Ruled out of order on three grounds.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Sian Berry · 25 pages · 19 supporters
Replaces the children, families and young adults section of social welfare policy. It fleshes out universal free early years education and care, updates courts, justice and child protection policy, recognises the wide range of family units children are raised in, and adds a new section on children's rights and empowerment.
Proposed by Maud Waret · 8 pages
Would have embedded anti-racist and decolonial principles through education policy, covering curriculum, teacher education, school governance and accountability, on the grounds that current policy addresses equality and inclusion but never names institutional racism, racial literacy or decolonisation.
Proposed by Cassiopoeia Herrieven · 8 pages
Would have added a policy that children and young people be treated as active agents in their own lives with a say in decisions affecting them, and argued against blocking young people's internet access on the grounds that those who circumvent a ban are less likely to seek help when something goes wrong. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Education Policy Working Group · 8 pages · 20 supporters
Would have required home local authorities to retain responsibility for the care needs of SEND and ALN children placed out of area, given every child with identified needs a named caseworker, and required schools and authorities to accept private diagnoses from regulated professionals. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Education Policy Working group · 7 pages · 4 supporters
The resubmitted version of the SEND and ALN motion, adding ring-fenced funding for specialist placements and a formal UK-Welsh Government agreement to close the gap between the SEND and ALN frameworks. Also ruled out of order.
Proposed by Education Policy Working Group · 7 pages · 181 supporters
Would have entered a policy statement on protecting education from climate disruption, citing heatwaves and wildfire smoke causing closures and shortened days, and vulnerability to flooding, storms, transport disruption, power failure and building damage. It covers continuity planning, eco-anxiety and the knowledge needed for life in a climate-changed world. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Matthew Hull · 6 pages · 61 supporters
Commits the party to build trade union work into its strategy and operations, and instructs the executive to allocate staffing, funding and resources to it at every level. The executive and regional council, with the Green Party Trade Union Group, would consult unions, consider mechanisms for union participation in party structures, and report on options for union representation before the next conference.
2 amendments tabled
Proposed by Allan McLeod · 20 pages · 19 supporters
Calls for a national Domestic Violence Prevention and Protection Programme requiring every public sector employer, including privatised utilities and publicly funded bodies, to designate a lead HR officer responsible for supporting staff at risk of domestic abuse or intimate partner violence, operating both internally and through a national network.
Proposed by Matthew Hull · 7 pages · 49 supporters
Adopts the Workers' Charter launched by the party and the Green Party Trade Union Group at the 2026 May Day rally in Manchester, and calls for campaigning around its demands over the following six months. The charter covers higher pay, stronger rights and collective power, including union policies the motion says Labour dropped when watering down the Employment Rights Act.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Allan McLeod · 10 pages · 31 supporters
Creates a right to three days of paid menstrual leave a month without a doctor's note, not recorded as sickness absence or deducted from annual leave, extendable with a note for conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, PMDD and PCOS, requiring that note no more than once a year. Follows a petition that closed with over 109,000 signatures.
Proposed by Felix Ricketts-Mason · 14 pages · 10 supporters
Would have strengthened workers' rights policy following the Employment Rights Act 2025, which the motion welcomes for restricting zero hours contracts, shortening the qualifying period for unfair dismissal protection and easing union organising, while criticising the concessions forced by the House of Lords. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Food & Agriculture PWG · 108 pages · 34 supporters
Rewrites the agriculture and climate section to drive down methane and nitrous oxide from food production. It keeps ten-year consumption-emission reduction targets and promotes a substantial shift away from meat and dairy consumption and nitrogen fertiliser use, with farmers supported through advice and payments for carbon sequestration.
Proposed by Animal Rights PWG · 61 pages · 50 supporters
Replaces animal rights clause AR412 so elected Greens would ensure nutritionally balanced vegetarian, plant-based and vegan options, defined as 100% animal-product free, are available across the public sector including schools, hospitals and care homes. Follows the Casamitjana ruling and the Equality Act definition of service providers, and adds the term 'plant-based' to policy.
Proposed by Nicola Swift · 12 pages · 43 supporters
Backs the Basic Income for Farmers campaign as both income stabilisation against climate volatility and a step towards universal basic income. The motion cites precarious farm incomes, low pay for tenant farmers and landworkers, a mental health crisis in farming, and the way insecurity blocks long-term investment in sustainability.
Proposed by James Meadway · 15 pages · 17 supporters
Commits the party to urgent action on food prices, arguing rising costs are a major part of the cost-of-living crisis while farmers are squeezed by extreme weather, input costs and the market power of major buyers. It says the current UK approach falls short on long-term food security and climate resilience.
Proposed by Haydn Osborne-Brookes · 6 pages · 13 supporters
Proposed a nationally owned food retailer modelled on Zohran Mamdani's New York policy, taking over shops closed by private supermarkets and undercutting their prices. No motion text was published.
Proposed by Jonathan Fluxman · 11 pages · 46 supporters
Three linked demands: that Green MPs, councillors and members back NGOs seeking to rebuild healthcare in Gaza and press for more medical evacuations; that Green MPs oppose the government's plan to tackle antisemitism and other racism; and that the party adopt a short-term policy statement cancelling all NHS contracts with Palantir and other healthcare companies it deems involved in genocide.
Proposed by Tomas Sloan · 11 pages · 14 supporters
Endorses the Fire Brigades Union's programme for the fire and rescue service: an end to all cuts, significantly increased central funding, reversing cuts to firefighter numbers starting with 5,000 more urgently, a new statutory national body overseeing standards with FBU representation, and minimum crewing of five on fire engines.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Laura-Beth Thompson · 6 pages · 13 supporters
Would have committed the party to back a statutory public inquiry into maternity and neonatal safety and to remove all references to natural or normal birth ideology from party policy, arguing the Amos Report confirmed systemic national failings and that pressure toward natural birth has driven unsafe decisions and delayed escalation. Ruled out of order.
Proposed by Michael Peel · 3 pages
Would move social care funding off councils and onto national insurance, arguing some areas lose 67% of their budget to social care, that lower council tax would ease the cost of living, and that the shift would reduce money flowing to private social care providers. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
Proposed by Health Policy Working Group · 6 pages · 70 supporters
Would have called on the new prime minister to revoke the UK-US pharmaceutical trade deal agreed in December 2025, which the motion says will divert an estimated £44.7 billion from the NHS to pharmaceutical corporations by 2036, in exchange for a tariff deal rendered meaningless when the US Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal. Ruled out of order as not arising since the pre-agenda deadline.
Proposed by Sacha Ismail · 8 pages · 23 supporters
Sets out immediate demands on the monarchy short of abolition: ending the King's consent process by which royals vet legislation, abolishing the Sovereign Grant, which the motion says has risen from £31 million in 2012 to £138 million, and replacing it with a grant of no more than £10 million, limiting the monarch to two state-funded homes, ending funding for other royals, and folding the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster into the Crown Estate.
1 amendment tabled
Proposed by Richard Tustian · 8 pages · 18 supporters
Supports creating a UK artist-owned streaming platform on which musicians upload directly and keep full rights, integrated into the TV licence and BBC digital services so it is free to UK residents and subscription-based abroad. It also backs campaigns for transparent streaming royalties and fair pay, and links the platform to the live music and night-time economy.
Proposed by Maria Emilia Jennings · 6 pages · 6 supporters
A one-sentence amendment inserting into policy that the head of state shall be democratically elected by the people. Ruled out of order for insufficient co-proposers.
1 amendment tabled
Source: Green Party of England and Wales, Autumn Conference 2026 agenda papers. Amendments are listed under the motion they amend. “Out of order” items were ruled out of order by Standing Orders Committee.
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”