'Send a message with your vote': Green Party looks to Stockport for next MP

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The Green Party has urged Stockport residents to send a message about the climate crisis by backing its candidates in the general election.

It plans to stand in all three Stockport seats in Parliament as it looks to the borough for its next MP. This includes the marginal areas of Cheadle and Hazel Grove, where Conservative MPs have majorities of less than 5,000.

The Denton and Reddish seat is set to be abolished in the next election as part of a constituency boundary review, with the Reddish wards being represented by the MP for Stockport, currently Labour's Navandu Mishra. READ MORE: A slice of the future in a corner of Stockport Alex Drury, the Green candidate for Cheadle, said: "It's important to me that everyone that wants to send a message with their vote that the climate crisis is important to them, they are given an opportunity to do that on the ballot paper. "We've seen a lot of rolling back from climate change comments from Labour and the Conservatives over the last few years, this is a platform to put our views across about that." The 41-year-old Gatley resident added: "The Conservatives don't have any councillors in Stockport at the moment, that's telling for their prospects in this election." Mr Drury said he wasn't worried about potentially taking votes away from other parties, as he wanted to use his platform to push the Green agenda.

This includes increasing renewable energy as a top priority to help people with the cost of living crisis. Research has found that Hazel Grove is one of the seat where residents feel strongly about green issues which could decide which way the vote goes.