Adrian Ramsay is the Green Party MP for Waveney Valley, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Ramsay won 20,467 votes, representing 41.7% of the vote. The Conservative candidate, Richard Rout, received 14,873 votes (30.3%), while the Reform UK candidate, Scott Huggins, secured 7,779 votes (15.9%). Ramsay was duly elected with a majority of 5,594.

The Waveney Valley constituency was newly created ahead of the 2024 election, spanning the border between Norfolk and Suffolk in the East of England.

Political Career

Ramsay currently serves as a Green spokesperson for the Treasury, health, dentistry and environment, food and rural affairs (all since July 2024).

Ramsay served as co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) from October 2021 to September 2025. He served alongside Carla Denyer, who was also elected as an MP in 2024.

In October 2021, Ramsay and Denyer elected as Green co-leaders on a platform of “professionalising” the party’s electoral machine. Ramsay and Denyer’s ticket defeated Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond by 6,273 votes to 3,902.

Ramsay and Denyer’s tenure as Green co-leaders coincided with a period of significant electoral advancement. In the 2022 local elections the Green Party made a net gain of 71 seats. A year later, the Greens gained overall control of their first council, Mid Suffolk District Council, in the 2023 local elections. Mid Suffolk had previously been a minority Tory administration, reflecting the Greens’ appealing rural areas. The party gained more than 200 councillors across England, winning a record 481 council seats nationwide. It became the largest party on East Hertfordshire District Council, Lewes District Council and Warwick District Council.

The Greens achieved their best ever local elections results in 2024, winning a projected national vote share of 13% and a net gain of 74 seats. This took the party’s total presence in local government to 838. In Bristol, the party fell narrowly short of taking overall control, winning 34 of the 70 seats.

Under Ramsay and Denyer’s leadership, the Greens won a historic four seats at the 2024 general election. The result followed years of targeted campaigning, focusing the party’s resources on four specific constituencies, Brighton Pavilion, Bristol Central, Waveney Valley and North Herefordshire.

The 2024 general election manifesto foreword, penned by Ramsay and Denyer, argued that despite Britain’s wealth, “nurses are using food banks, our children’s schools are crumbling, a roof over our heads is all too often unaffordable, and a hospital appointment or a dentist is like gold dust.” Ramsay and Denyer called for the creation of a “greener, fairer country… in which we are all safer, happier and more fulfilled.”

They added: “The solutions to the climate crisis are the same as those needed to end the cost of living and inequality crises, making the future not just more liveable but fairer for us all too.”

In May 2025, Denyer announced her decision to step back from the leadership, choosing to focus on being the “best MP I can be, in parliament and in Bristol Central.”

Ramsay stood in the 2025 Green Party leadership election as part of a joint-ticket alongside fellow MP Ellie Chowns. Ramsay and Chowns were pitted against the party’s deputy leader, Zack Polanski, a member of the London Assembly. Polanski’s “eco-populist” platform was popular with the party membership. Ramsay and Chowns argued that the Greens would not be able to “outshout” Reform with populist-style messaging.

The contest was characterised by the two campaign’s contrasting styles. Ramsay argued that the “British people have had enough with populist approaches to politics that seek to simplify everything, that are all about chasing the next headline, the next set of likes, rather than real substance.”

During an LBC Radio debate, Ramsay struggled to say whether he personally liked Polanski. Under repeated questioning, Ramsey responded that they had “worked together” and he “enjoyed working with Zack”. Iain Dale, the LBC Radio host and debate moderator, told Ramsey he could not “even bring yourself to say that you like Zack Polanski”.

Ramsey responded: “Zack is a valued colleague; I like working with Zack.”

In the end, Polanski secured 20,411 votes (84.1%) among the Green membership. Chowns and Ramsay polled 3,705 votes (15.3%).

In a statement responding to Polanski’s election, Ramsay and Chowns congratulated the new Green leader and thanked “him for running such a strong and passionate campaign.”

They added: “Our party is in the strongest position in its history. We’re winning record numbers of seats, reaching people in every community and from across the political spectrum, and showing that Green politics is rooted in the issues that truly matter.

“As MPs, we remain fully committed to playing our part: holding this government to account and championing the policies needed for a fairer, greener and more liveable future.”

Ramsay is listed as a member of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on the environment.

Ramsay delivered his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 26 July 2024 during a debate on making Britain a clean energy superpower.

In it, he said: “I have been a climate campaigner for 25 years – that has been my primary passion since I was a teenager – and making a difference on climate and the environment has guided everything that I have done in my career, including spending the last decade leading national charities whose purpose is to support the renewable energy sector.

“I am the first to argue that we need to scale up all types of renewable energy, and there was much in the minister’s speech to welcome.”

He added: “To get to net zero we have to move away from fossil fuels as well as increasing renewable energy…

“I will play a constructive role in this House by supporting the Government and working with other parties where I agree with them, and in pressing the Government to be bolder on restoring nature, responding to the climate emergency and rebuilding our public services.”

Ramsay is a longstanding member of the Green Party. He first joined the party in 1998 at the age of 16.

Ramsay was first elected as a Green councillor on Norwich City Council in May 2003 aged 21. He served on the council until 2011.

In September 2008, Ramsay was elected as the first deputy leader of the Green Party. (Two years later in 2010, Ramsay defeated a challenge from Derek Wall, winning 73.4% of the vote.) He stepped down as deputy leader in 2012.

Ramsay previously stood as the Green Party candidate for the Norwich South constituency in the 2005 general election and 2010 general election.

Political Views

The Greens are an environmentalist and progressive political party positioned on the left of British politics.

The party’s foundational ideological beliefs are set out in its official core values and “philosophical basis”. This latter document outlines the aims and beliefs of the party, providing the basis on which all its policies are agreed.

The opening to the Green Party’s philosophical basis states: “A system based on inequality and exploitation is threatening the future of the planet on which we depend, and encouraging reckless and environmentally damaging consumerism.

“A world based on cooperation and democracy would prioritise the many, not the few, and would not risk the planet’s future with environmental destruction and unsustainable consumption.”

The Greens’ 10-point statement of core values commits the party to “social and environmental justice, which supports a radical transformation of society for the benefit of all, and for the planet as a whole.”

The party’s 2024 general election manifesto, branded with the slogan “Real hope. Real change”, focused heavily on the cost of living and affordability.

Ramsay is listed as one of activist group Green New Deal Rising’s “cross-party green new deal champions”. GNDR is a progressive campaign organisation which promotes rapid decarbonisation and the transformation of the UK economy with a “Green New Deal” – a long-term plan to tackle climate change with large-scale public investment in renewable energy, green infrastructure and public services.

Ramsay was endorsed by local groups of the cross-party organisation Compass during the 2024 general election. Compass is a thinktank and campaign group. As part of its “Win as One” campaign in the 2024 election, local Compass groups backed a slate of progressive candidates who had pledged their support for electoral reform. The central aim of the initiative was to elect a “caucus” of MPs who would champion the cause of replacing the first past the post electoral system.

Ramsay is listed as a supporter of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair elections – a cross-party group of MPs and peers that campaigns for electoral reform. The group’s stated aims include replacing the first past the post (FPTP) voting system with a form of proportional representation, eliminating “dark money” and “undemocratic influence” from politics, and countering disinformation.

In May 2026, Ramsay signed an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, calling on the government to establish a “national commission on electoral reform”. Tabled by Alex Sobel as chair of the fair elections APPG, the amendment aimed to force a rethink of the first past the post voting system. At the time, Sobel described FPTP as “one of the biggest examples of a broken status quo in UK politics.” He invited colleagues to join this “common sense call to take a fresh look at how parliament is elected in modern Britain.”

In December 2024, Ramsay voted in favour of the Elections (Proportional Representation) Bill – introduced by Liberal Democrat frontbencher Sarah Olney under the 10-minute rule procedure. The bill sought to “introduce a system of proportional representation for parliamentary elections and for local government elections in England”. A total of 138 MPs supported the bill – with 136 opposed. Notably, 59 Labour MPs backed Olney’s bill.

Welfare

Winter fuel payment EDM: In September 2024, Ramsay signed an early day motion (EDM) expressing concern over the government’s proposed changes to the winter fuel payment. The motion called on the government to “postpone the ending of winter fuel payments and establish a comprehensive strategy to tackle fuel poverty, health inequality and low incomes among older people.”

Assisted dying

Ramsay voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at both second reading (November 2024) and third reading (June 2025).

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Ramsay voted in favour of a backbench amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in June 2025. The amendment, which was passed by a majority of 242 votes, removed women from the threat of prosecution for ending a pregnancy at any stage. As an issue of conscience, MPs were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs.

Lying amendment: In January 2026, Ramsay was listed as a supporter of an amendment to the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, often referred to as the “Hillsborough Law”, that would extend the proposed criminal offence of misleading the public to include MPs and peers. Luke Myer, the Labour MP behind the proposal, argued that his amendment would mean “no-one in parliament would be above the law”, adding: “If politicians deliberately lie to the public, there should be consequences.”

Myer stated: “This amendment is a proportionate, carefully safeguarded response to a real democratic risk. It is not about stifling debate or political disagreement, it is about ensuring that those who seek or hold public office cannot deliberately and knowingly mislead the public without consequence.

“The polling shows that voters across the political spectrum expect parliament to act.”

Myer’s amendment won the support of 30 cross-party MPs.

Palestine

Palestinian recognition letter (July 2025): In July 2025, Ramsay was among the over 254 MPs to sign a cross-party letter calling for the government to immediately recognise the state of Palestine. The letter called on the prime minister and foreign secretary to recognise Palestine at the UN Conference then taking place in New York.

Palestine Action vote: Also in July 2025, Ramsay was one of 26 MPs to vote against the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. The ban, passed by 385 votes to 26, came after the Home Office accused the group of “aggressive and intimidatory attacks against businesses, institutions and the public”. However, civil liberties organisations argued proscription represented an overreach of state power and a threat to the right to protest.

Before Politics

Adrian Philip Ramsay was born in Norwich in August 1981.

He attended the City of Norwich School.

He studied politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and later obtained a master’s from the same institution.

Ramsay went on to hold a series of roles in the environmental charity and sustainability sectors.

He served as chief executive of the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) based in Wales from 2014 to 2019 and later led the MCS Charitable Foundation.

Personal Life

Ramsay lives in Norwich, Norfolk.

He has two children.

Trivia

Ramsay is the first ever male Green MP in the UK.

He is a lifelong Norwich City fan