We are very pleased to announce that Zoe Leventhal KC, a leading barrister and Kenilworth Town Councillor, is our MP candidate for Kenilworth & Southam.
We’re going for it! The Greens now lead Warwick District Council and Kenilworth Town Council, and we’re building on our local presence because we believe that Zoe, a Green candidate, is the right candidate for this electorate. Now it’s time to take on the Tories and make history with Zoe as our first Green MP for Kenilworth & Southam.
About Zoe
Zoe lives in Kenilworth with her family and is already a Green champion for the community, as well as having all the skills and integrity we need in a new MP.
As a local councillor on Kenilworth Town Council, Zoe is well-known for initiating new councillors’ surgeries in the area, creating a cycling scheme for young people, securing public scrutiny of decisions on key issues such as leisure and school transport, and initiating an accessibility project for disabled access.
In her professional life, she is a King’s Counsel - a barrister in the field of public law - and practises in areas such as health & social care, discrimination, climate change and planning. Her work is about ensuring that the Government is fair, transparent and honest about what it is doing, that it respects the rights of individuals and works for the public good. But we’ve seen erosion of the rule of law, mockery of the truth and empty talk about the climate crisis; and it’s time to fix the politics that enables this.
In her own words
Zoe says:
“Over the past year, I’ve knocked on hundreds of doors across the constituency and got to know lots of people in the community - from Wellesbourne, to Stretton-on-Dunsmore, to Southam and south to Tysoe, as well my home community of Kenilworth. What are people saying?
- People are fed up with politics and politicians. They feel taken for granted by a Government who many people voted for but few can now trust.
- People are struggling to get by on a daily basis with the high cost of food, bills and housing.
- Most importantly, people are proud of their communities, their connections, the things they love about their villages and towns, supporting each other, their children, their grandchildren, and the action they are taking to look after the environment and stay hopeful. We need to cherish and protect this.
We all want someone who will stand up for our communities, bring integrity back into our broken politics and take strong action on the climate crisis that we and future generations need.
So that is why I am stepping up. It’s time for me to stand up and be counted for our community. I will be your strong Green voice for Kenilworth & Southam. Together we can make a difference!”
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