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
Max Bennett (actor) and the most wanted man in England, "a messianic, charismatic leader bent on fomenting Catholic rebellion". In 2017, it was announced that Bennett would be joining the cast of the fourth series of the BBC’s "Poldark", as "unscrupulous society figure" Monk Adderley, a "psychopath with a death wish", according to the The Guardian, "played brilliantly by Max Bennett". The Telegraph described him as "seized by the kind of malign competitive lust not seen on screen since "Dangerous Liaisons"". Max Bennett (actor) Max Bennett (born 24 November 1984) is an English actor. On screen he is best known for playing Robert