The leader of the Green Party has welcomed the government's announcement of a universal state pension. But she said that the plans do not go far enough.
The youth wings of the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party have attacked proposals - supported by LibDem and Tory ministers - to raise student tuition fees in England.
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has said that Prime Minister David Cameron's dream of a Big Society is “hiding a nightmare of socially devastating cuts”.
New Green MP Caroline Lucas is jointly heading up attempts to give voters the option of Proportional Representation in May's electoral reform referendum.
A political panel debate at the New Economic Reality conference in Edinburgh has heard a trenchant attack on the economic consensus of the big parties.
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has attacked the new Labour leader Ed Miliband, suggesting he is failing to live up to his reputation as an environmentalist.
Environmental groups have given a sceptical response to pledges made by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne at the Liberal Democrat conference.
Leading trade unionists and the Green Party have declared that they will work together to fight the cuts to public services proposed by the coalition government.