Natalie Bennett has just been taking questions as part of the Sky leaders’ debates for younger voters, and delivered the second Green U-turn of the day, this time on terrorism. After struggling on the Sunday Politics to explain why her party thinks that membership of a terrorist group alone should not be a crime, the Green leader decided to say that actually, her party thought that it was:
‘Obviously [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda are hideous terrorist organisations that advocate and support violence. If you are involved in them, support them in any way, then you are participating in inciting violence, that’s a crime, rightly, and should be pursued to the full extent of the law.’
This follows Caroline Lucas saying that the citizens’ income was a ‘longer-term aspiration’ rather than something that would appear in the 2015 general election manifesto. Lucas also told the Today programme she was ‘very comfortable’ with Bennett appearing in the leaders’ debates, though the pair seem to have only come to an agreement after Lucas had a tough time explaining why she might do some of them herself when she appeared on This Week.
Should Lucas be ‘very comfortable’ with Bennett appearing? The Brighton Pavilion MP is no longer her party leader, but she does still come across better on the airwaves than her colleague.
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