Tim Worstall

Leader or no leader?

The supporters of the latter, led by the MEP Caroline Lucas, and Prince Charles’s favourite Green, Jonathan Porritt, succinctly argued in a letter to this paper on Tuesday that a single identifiable leader who people recognise and trust is the best way of engaging the voters.

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If they want to contest elections within the existing system, if there is going to be a Green party, as opposed to a green pressure group, they have to act like players. And in a context of minimal voter attention and celebrity politics, that means the party’s enviably simple message has to be put across by a single leader.

The Guardian comes out on the side of two of its occasional columnists. Amazing, don’t you think?