Green Party of England and Wales elections in England and Wales, the Green Party in Brighton and Hove took minority control of the City Council by winning 23 seats, 5 short of an overall majority. At the 2012 local government elections the Green Party gained 5 seats, and retained both AMs at the 2012 London Assembly election. At the London Mayoral Election the party's candidate Jenny Jones finished third, and lost her deposit. In May 2012, Lucas announced that she would not seek re-election to the post of party leader. In September, Natalie Bennett was elected party leader and Will Duckworth deputy leader in the leadership
The New Leader platform for what was then known as liberal anti-Communism. The founding editor in 1924 was James Oneal, succeeded by Sol Levitas in 1940. Suzanne La Follette was a managing editor in the 1950s. Myron (Mike) Kolatch took over in 1961 until the magazine's closure in 2006. Its contributors were dominant liberal thinkers and artists. "The New Leader" first published Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It first published Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included James Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Willy Brandt, David Dallin,