The popularity of the Green Party is growing with a fast increasing membership.

It is no surprise therefore that the Conservatives would like to expose the Labour Party to Green Party arguments in a national televised leadership debate.

David Cameron clearly believes that his strongest opposition will come from the Labour Party and UKIP. He probably also believes that the Greens can do damage to Labour in the way that the Scottish Nationalists have done in Scotland, though on a lesser scale.

He may calculate that the ‘left vote’ that went to Nick Clegg in 2010 at the expense of Labour is now lost to the LibDems and may not go back to Labour where it came from, but go to the Greens.

It is therefore rather obvious that Labour and the LibDems are trying to deflect their concerns about Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party taking part in a televised leadership debate, by interpreting David Cameron’s insistence on the Greens taking part as a ruse to get out of it himself.

What all this means is that The Green Party is feared by all the main parties because it is an emerging force in British politics, having the support of a majority of the under 25s and many more.

Across the country, it has shown that it can defeat candidates of all parties, including the Tories, as it has twice done in Worcester in recent times.

Peter Nielsen

Worcester.