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PM due to take questions on growth, international affairs and defence, and on welfare and health ahead of the Easter recessThe Green party says it is offering “positive change” at the local elections to people fed up with the “old, tired parties”.It is formally launching its campaign later this morning and, according to extracts released in advance, Adrian Ramsay, the party’s co-leader, will argue that his party is doing well because it is offering voters something different.We know that politics in this country isn’t providing people with what they need - that disillusionment is high and morale is low. But up and down the country Greens are making a difference. We are smashing through records getting more and more hard-working councillors elected.We are taking votes from the old, tired parties to offer something different - the positive change so desperately needed.The over 800 Green councillors across England and Wales between them already represent millions of people in this country. They are working hard every day to make a difference for their communities, working all year round on practical solutions, not just turning up on the doorstep when it’s election time.Here in Warwick where we lead the council, we have invested millions into making council housing warmer and cheaper to run. In Mid Suffolk, another Green run council, in one year we have prevented hundreds of people from becoming homeless.Campaigners said they are “deeply moved by the overwhelmingly positive response” to the baby loss certificate scheme.The voluntary service launched in February last year, allowing parents in England who had lost a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy to acknowledge their baby existed. Continue reading...