My Views

Jenny regularly writes a blog, see below, and occasionally writes for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph

  • Iran strikes (3/9/2026) -
  • My Oral Question on Carbon Budget 6 (3/4/2026) - To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether their policies and plans will deliver Carbon Budget 6
  • My QSD on Public Office (Accountability) Bill: Exclusion (2/27/2026) - To ask HMG why Members of Parliament and members of the House of Lords are excluded from Clause 11, “Offence of misleading the public”, of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill; and what consideration they have… More
  • New Housing: Flood Risk (2/27/2026) - I do not want to get into the water reform Bill too much—it is a terrible Bill and the Government ought to withdraw it—but on this issue of flood risk, the fact is that houses… More
  • Global Biodiversity Loss and National Security (2/24/2026) - The Government sound very good on all these policies, but, in fact, they are not meeting their targets. They are not meeting their targets on tree-planting, marine protected areas or flooding. It is going to… More
  • Drax revelations (2/19/2026) - We joined others in writing to the Secretary of State following media reports that one senior manager wrote “we’ve been saying we don’t source from these forests when it appears we might be.” We are… More
  • How your Green Peers voted on the Employment Rights Bill  (2/12/2026) - Both Green Party peers voted against all Conservative amendments during the final stage of the Employment Bill being passed into law and voted for the overall Bill. Our MPs did the same.  Even though the government watered down the bill to… More
  • Crime and Policing Bill Committee Stage Day 15 (2/6/2026) - Regulators such as Ofwat have been in bed with the water industry bosses, and the Environment Agency has lost staff and legitimacy. Labour are wedded to private ownership of water and refuse to consider public… More
  • English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill Committee Stage Day 4 (2/3/2026) - Ultimately, these amendments are about empowering local decision-making
  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage (1/29/2026) - I feel that we have completely failed children who are home educated; we have not understood how important that aspect of education is for many children. At the moment, there are excessive data powers, legal… More