Green party

Adrian Ramsay - Deputy Leader

adrian ramsayAdrian Ramsay, 28, is Deputy Leader of the Green Party and is standing to become MP for Norwich South at the next General Election.

Adrian is part of the largest group of Green Party Councillors in the country on Norwich City Council. The Green Party is the second largest party and the official opposition at City Hall, holding 13 seats (just two behind Labour). Adrian stepped down as Leader of the Green PartyCity Councillors in December 2009 in order to focus on his campaign to become Member of Parliament for Norwich South.

Born and brought up in Norwich, Adrian went on to gain a First Class Degree in Politics and Sociology from the University of East Anglia in 2002, where he received an award for his Politics essays. He later gained a Masters' Degree.

Adrian joined the Green Party in 1998 at the age of 16 because he felt the other parties were overlooking environmental issues and were not tackling poverty and animal cruelty. He still feels strongly that the Green Party is the only party with strong and coherent policies on these issues.

As a prominent councillor and prospective MP, Adrian is motivated by the need to make a difference on these issues at a local and national level.

Adrian himself was first elected as a City Councillor in 2003 at the age of 21, gaining 50% of the vote. He was re-elected in 2007 with 62% in Norwich's Nelson Ward.

Adrian is Parliamentary Candidate for the Norwich South constituency - one of three target constituencies for the Green Party at the General Election. In the 2009 local elections the Green Party obtained 34% of the vote across Norwich South and was over four thousand votes ahead of Labour.

If this is repeated at the next General Election Adrian will unseat former Home Secretary Charles Clarke and become one of the first Green MPs.

Adrian lives with his partner Jenny in the Unthank Road area of Norwich.

For more information about Adrian's work as a local councillor and Parliamentary candidate, please visit the Norwich Green Party website:

www.norwichgreenparty.org