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13 September 2007updated 21 Sep 2023 11:27am

Green Tories? Not likely!

Sian Berry reports from the Green Party conference on the day David Cameron's 'Quality of Life' revi

By Sian Berry

It’s the Green Party conference again. These six-monthly get togethers seem to come around more and more quickly. Come to think of it, most of the policemen I saw at the DSEi arms fair protest last week looked like they should be doing their GCSEs. Must be my age.

We’re the first conference of the season this autumn, so there’s a fair bit of media interest in what we’re up to. Thursday was the opening day and, thanks to the Tories launching their Quality of Life review group report that morning, I spend most of the day on the phone or in front of a camera commenting on how disappointing it was.

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