Principal Speaker

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Principal Speakers are leaders and public spokespersons of the Green Party of England and Wales. There are two principal speakers, one male and one female. They perform the public and media role undertaken by the leaders of more convention-following parties. Green Parties often consider joint leadership of this kind to embody the widely-held Green beliefs in consensus decision making and gender balance.

Since August 2004, the principal speakers are Keith Taylor and Caroline Lucas. Taylor was narrowly reelected in 2005, after controversy about his media performance, beating ecosocialist Derek Wall, 851 to 803.

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