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I'm Rachel, and I’m standing for Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. With leadership experience spanning film, arts, and local government, I'll empower & support new Green leaders from all backgrounds, help us find funds together and make sure we cut through in media like never before.

IN THE MEDIA

As co-leader of a district council, I've confronted the housing crisis, crumbling public services, water privatisation, scapegoating of immigrants, and Reform's lies.

With support, we can all speak truth to power and bring hope to our communities.

Media training - broadcast and social - must become a party-wide priority. We have the policies, principles, and proven delivery in councils and Parliament. It’s time to share our vision and our successes.

I'll help equip local parties with the skills, confidence, and fundraising to make it happen.

ABOUT me

I co-lead Wealden District Council in Sussex, one of 15 Green-led councils in the UK.

Elected as Wealden's third Green councillor in 2021, I helped the team win 11 seats in 2023 and now co-lead the Council with cabinet roles in Housing & Benefits, then Community, Culture and Communications. Our council's mission to make Wealden greener, fairer and kinder is delivering at pace through new initiatives in affordable housing, nature restoration and community wellbeing. I regularly appear on BBC Politics South East TV and local radio.

Born in the West Midlands after my parents left Hull, I studied at Oxford University and the African Gender Institute in Cape Town. I've lived in Brighton, working as a carer, and then London, where I founded international women's film festival Birds Eye View (now evolved into Reclaim the Frame). This led to recognition as one of 50 'Women to Watch' by Arts Council England and a Woman of the Future Award nomination for Media. I later directed a community arts space in Hackney and became Executive Director for Sam Lee's live music platform, the Nest Collective.

I've been politically active since childhood—my first protest was against South African apartheid aged 8, around the same time I joined Greenpeace. Studying gender and development with women from 9 African countries shifted my focus from international development to equality for women in Britain. Birds Eye View helped spotlight the radical inequality in film and spearheaded more initiatives to redress the balance. It was after knocking on doors trying to stop Brexit happening that I realised I needed to step forward into politics, and it was around XR that I knew where my political home would be.

Throughout my life, I've championed marginalised voices and worked for social justice—for women, disabled people (informed by my lived experience of disability), and nature - through co-founding Friends of the River Medway and volunteering as an Ashdown Forest conservator.

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endorsements

  • Miles Thorpe, 2024 campaign manager for carla denyer

    “Rachel would be an incredible Deputy Leader. She’s a natural in the media, has excellent experience in and out of politics, and brings the hard work and compassion that’s needed in the role. The Green Party needs to kick it up a gear, and I’ll be voting for Rachel to help us do that.“

  • Leda Schiltz, 2024 campaign organiser for siân berry

    “Rachel is the Deputy Leader we need now. She’s one of the best communicators in the party, dedicated, compassionate and hard working, I know that she will give her all to taking this party to the next level. She is as natural face to face as she is in the media, with a proven track record in fundraising, mentoring, and movement building. Now is the time for this party to leap forward and that’s why I’ll be voting for Rachel.“

  • Cllr Nate Higgins, Newham Green Group Leader

    “I’m proud to endorse Rachel as one of our Deputy Leaders. As someone who has relentlessly championed social housing, tenant support, and held water companies to account over raw sewage pollution, her record resonates deeply with the social and environmental justice I’ve fought for as a Newham Green councillor. Rachel brings the strategy, empathy, and integrity our leadership team needs to grow our movement and win real change – and to take the fight to Reform.”

  • Haydn Osborne-Brookes, Under 18’s Liberation Group Co-Chair

    “I'm endorsing Rachel to be one of our Deputies. Rachel has represented rural greens like myself extremely well and shown that inequality affects us all, no matter where we live. Rachel can communicate a strong message of social, environmental, and economic justice that will resonate with rural and urban communities alike. Rachel is also an amazing communicator who can tackle the rising threat of Reform head on, and prepare our party to win.”

  • cllr Claudia Fisher, former south east field organiser

    “I couldn’t be happier to endorse Rachel Millward as Deputy Leader of the Green Party. Rachel is deeply principled, charismatic, intelligent, fair, articulate, an experienced politician and a natural leader. Rachel has my vote!”

  • cllr Stuart Jeffery, Leader of maidstone borough council

    “Anyone who watched Rachel destroy the new Reform leader of Kent County Council on BBC Politics last month can be under no illusion that Rachel is a formidable speaker and debater. Rachel is exactly who we need to get our unique messages across to the widest possible audience and to do it fearlessly. I urge you to vote for Rachel to be Deputy Leader.”

endorsements from Councillors

  • Shuguftah Quddoos

    Nottingham City Council

  • Emily O'Brien

    Lewes District Council

  • Jenny Knight

    Norwich City Council

  • Wilson Colley

    Lancaster City Council

  • Laura Manston

    Sevenoaks District Council

  • Jess Hulbert

    Wealden District Council

  • Dr Max Morris

    Oxford City Council

  • Claudia Fisher

    Horsham District Council

  • Nate Higgins

    Newham Borough Council

  • Cornelie Usborne

    Wealden District Council

  • Stuart Jeffery

    Kent County Council/Maidstone District Council

  • Paul Stepto

    Kent County Council

  • Christina Coleman

    Wealden District Council

  • Greg Collins

    Wealden District Council

  • Rich Lehmann

    Kent County Council

  • Ian Tysh

    Wealden District Council

  • Alison Wilson

    Wealden District Council

  • Alex Powell

    Oxford City Council

  • Grace Couch

    Maidstone Borough Council

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I’m backing Rachel Millward to be the next Deputy Leader of the Green Party. 

Why? Not only is she a champion for people and planet, but someone who’s fighting against the deep inequality that’s hitting rural communities just as hard as urban ones. 

This our moment to be bold and take the fight to Reform. Rachel will lift up new Green voices, bring hope to both rural and urban communities, and drive our movement forward.

Two-party politics are crumbling. This is our opportunity to cut through. I’m backing Rachel to help make that happen - and I hope you’ll join me in getting involved.

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