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
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,