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GREEN Party leader Natalie Bennett suggested yesterday that she would be “happy” to work with Ukip to push for electoral reform.
The Greens received 1.1 million votes at the general election, while Ukip finished with almost four million but both parties ended up with just one MP each.
After the results came in, Ms Bennett and Ukip leader Nigel Farage — who both failed to win a seat — spoke of their frustration at the first-past-the-post system.
Asked if the Greens would stand alongside Ukip on a platform for electoral reform, Ms Bennett said: “Lots of people who were in seats where they have never thought about electoral reform before are looking at their MP or local council and are saying: ‘How did we end up with that? That’s not what we wanted.’
“So I think we will see a grassroots campaign and we will be supporting that and very happy to join with anyone else who supports that, working on an issue by issue basis as the Green Party has always done.”
