Natalie Bennett to ask: “Five hundred thousand homes – £2.7bn? What are they made of – plywood?” In January 2015 Ofcom ruled to exclude the Green Party from the televised debates surrounding the 2015 election, on the grounds that the party had not demonstrated "significant past electoral support in General Elections". This ruling led to an upsurge in Green Party support after Bennett called the ruling "disgraceful and indefensible" and David Cameron claimed that he was "quite happy for there to be no debates at all" if the Green Party was not included. This decision was later reversed, after which the Green
Amanda Bennett Amanda Bennett Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two newspapers, "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Lexington Herald-Leader" and author of six nonfiction books. Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was raised in Boonton, New Jersey, where she attended Boonton High School, graduating with the class of 1971. She graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature from Harvard College in 1975, where she was an editor on the "Harvard Crimson". She has two children with her late husband, Terence Foley, and four step-children with her husband,