Siân Berry

Sian Berry (born 9 July 1974 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion at the 2024 general election. Berry was one of the Green Party's Principal Speakers (2006–2007) and was selected as the party's candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election. A member of the London Assembly (since 2016), she is a former co-leader of the Green Party (2018–2021).

Quotes

• Gordon Brown thinks you should solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. We think you should solve climate change by changing your Government.
  • Keynote Speech, GP Autumn Conference 2007, Liverpool [1]

• Boris Johnson has real contempt for Londoners. He hates that we celebrate each other's heritage; he hates that we try to pass on a healthy environment to our children; he hates that we look after our most vulnerable neighbours; and most of all he hates that we all expect to share in our city's financial success.
  • Calling on her voters to give Ken Livingstone their second preference in the 2008 London Mayoral election [2]

• Keir Starmer is abandoning so many pledges so quickly, it's sending a real message to people on the left – that they are no longer the party for things like improving child benefit policies, things like controlling rents.
  It will only be Green MPs arguing for these things in the next parliament, standing up for things like repealing the horrendous Public Order Act, which Labour wouldn't vote against.
  That does make our job easier in terms of getting elected. But it makes our job harder if we haven't got a decent government – it's concerning on a good-of-the-country level.
  • "Siân Berry says Labour shift to right could help Greens hold Brighton" The Guardian (21 July 2023)
  • Speaking after her selection as the Green Party candidate for Brighton Pavilion. Berry succeeded the Green's Caroline Lucas as the constituency's MP in 2024.