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Amelia Womack
Womack in December 2014
Deputy Leader of the Green Party of
England and Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 September 2014
Serving with Shahrar Ali (2014–2016)
LeaderNatalie Bennett (2014–2016)
Caroline Lucas (2016–2018)
Jonathan Bartley (2016–)
Siân Berry (2018–)
Preceded byWill Duckworth
Shahrar Ali (co-deputy, 2014–2016)
Personal details
Born (1985-01-12) 12 January 1985 (age 39)
Newport, Wales
Political partyGreen Party of England and Wales
Alma materImperial College London
University of Liverpool

Amelia Helen Womack (born 12 January 1985) is a British politician. She has served as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales since September 2014 (alongside Shahrar Ali for the period 2014–16).

She was re-elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2016 for a second two-year term,[1] and then again in September 2018.

Education

Womack was born in Newport, South Wales[2] and attended Bassaleg School, a state comprehensive school in the suburb of Bassaleg, from 1996 to 2003.[3] She studied a BSc in Environmental Biology[3] at Liverpool University,[4] and went on to complete an MSc in environmental technology at Imperial College London in 2009, with a thesis entitled Who's afraid of environmental law? How the law of Ecocide can secure our environment for business resilience.[5]

Political career

Womack joined The Green Party around 2000.[6] She stood as a Green candidate for Herne Hill ward on Lambeth Council, in the United Kingdom local elections, 2014,[7] and for London in the 2014 European Parliament election, though she won neither seat.[8]

She was elected deputy leader of The Green Party in September 2014, delivering her first speech in the role at the party's conference on 6 September.[9] Having been elected at the age of 29, Womack is the youngest deputy leader of any political party in the UK.[10]

She stood in the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the 2015 United Kingdom general election,[11] finishing third with just over 10% of the vote.

In September 2015, Womack announced her intention to stand for the Wales Green Party in the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election. The Welsh Green Party announced in late October that she had been selected as the lead candidate for the regional South Wales Central (proportional representation) list as well as for the Cardiff Central constituency.[12]

Womack's re-election as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales was announced at the party conference in early September 2016. She is serving a second two-year term.[13]

Through her work as an End Ecocide Campaigner, she has worked with Vivienne Westwood to promote the change in environmental law and attempt to secure the one million votes required for a European Citizens' Initiative.[14]

In August 2016, she criticised Byron Hamburgers after they worked with the Home Office to call their London workers to a fake Health and Safety briefing, whereat immigration officials present at the venue arrested several employees, deporting 35 for immigration offences. Womack was quoted as saying "It’s about the family and friends of people who are left behind as well. You don’t need to be pro-migration to realise that employing people, having them pay tax and contribute to the company for years and then turn them over to authorities without any responsibility for the chaos caused is the wrong thing to do".[15]

In March 2017, Womack reported the Daily Mail newspaper to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over a front page photo of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon with the caption "Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it". In her submission she said: "This headline and the further derogatory comments inside the paper would not have even been considered, let alone published, if the two politicians in question had been men".[16]

In January 2019 she apologised for tweeting a picture accused of being antisemitic.[17]

In February 2019, it was announced that Womack would be the Wales Green Party candidate in the 2019 Newport West by-election,[18] a position she had nominally been selected for in November 2018.[19] The by-election was held on 4 April 2019 and Womack finished in sixth place in a field of 11 candidates, with 924 votes (3.9% of the total votes cast).[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley Elected Green Party Leaders In Job-share". HuffPost. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  2. ^ Powell, Nick (3 September 2015). "Green deputy leader wants to switch to Welsh politics". ITV News. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Amelia Helen Womack". LinkedIn. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Deputy Leader of the Green Party to visit Liverpool on Easter Monday". Liverpool Green Party. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Imperial College London Library – find books, articles and more". exlibrisgroup.com.
  6. ^ "About". Amelia Womack – Green Party. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "Election results for Herne Hill". lambeth.gov.uk.
  8. ^ "Vote 2006: European election candidates for London". BBC News.
  9. ^ "Amelia Womack's maiden speech as Green Party Deputy Leader (Full Text)". Green Party. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Amelia Womack". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 June 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  11. ^ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
  12. ^ "Record Number of Female Candidates Top Green Party Regional Lists for the Assembly Elections". Wales Green Party. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  13. ^ "Green Party announces Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley as co-leaders". ITV News. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  14. ^ Vivienne Westwood wants you to End Ecocide. YouTube. 16 January 2014.
  15. ^ "Byron protest: 'chef deported without being able to see his pregnant wife'". London Evening Standard. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  16. ^ "Daily Mail formally reported to press regulator over 'Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon's legs' front page". The Independent. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  17. ^ Sugarman, Daniel (25 January 2019). "Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack belatedly apologises after tweeting 'antisemitic' picture". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  18. ^ "A Green vision for Newport West". Green World. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  19. ^ "Green deputy leader selected as Newport West candidate | The Green Party". www.greenparty.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  20. ^ "Newport West by-election: Labour holds on to seat". BBC News. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
Party political offices
Preceded by Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
2014–present
With: Shahrar Ali (2014–2016) 		Incumbent
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