{"id":633242,"date":"2026-10-01T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:28:14","slug":"green-deputy-leader-questioned-on-small-boats-polling-and-bin-strike-on-bbc-local-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633242\/","title":{"rendered":"Green deputy leader questioned on small boats, polling and bin strike on BBC local radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

A revealing – and at times bruising – round of local radio interviews for Green deputypublished at 11:45 BST<\/p>\n

11:45 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Joshua Nevett
Political reporter<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

This was a revealing – and at times bruising – round of local interviews for the Green Party\u2019s joint deputy leader Rachel Millward.<\/p>\n

On the big national picture, Millward had a handful of key messages she clearly wanted to hammer home.<\/p>\n

First, that the Greens had done well electorally under leader Zack Polanski, and second, that the party can \u201ctake the credit\u201d for toppling Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister.<\/p>\n

She said Labour’s rhetoric had “shifted in our direction” under Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n

Going forward, she said the Greens would push the Labour government to go further and continue calling for rent controls, nationalisation of water companies and wealth taxes.<\/p>\n

But on local issues, Millward faced some tough questions, some of which she wasn\u2019t able to answer.<\/p>\n

For example, she was asked about the bin strikes in Birmingham<\/a>, where a minority coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents run the council.<\/p>\n

She said she hadn’t “been given enough information to answer that question” and apologised several times.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s not in my briefing, it should have been,” she said. “I\u2019m happy to come on another time and chat about it.”<\/p>\n

It was an awkward moment. These BBC local radio rounds can be tricky, with presenters often asking about issues in their patches.<\/p>\n

Millward seemed most comfortable on national topics, arguing the Greens \u201chave the power to set the agenda for this government\u201d and hold Burnham to account.<\/p>\n

We’re now ending our live coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A revealing – and at times bruising – round of local radio interviews for Green deputypublished at 11:45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-633242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}