The Green Party has elected its work and pensions spokesperson Jonathan Bartley as co-leader of the party.

He will pair with Caroline Lucas in what will be the first co-leadership in Westminster Politics.

Both were elected with 86 per cent of the total vote at the party’s annual conference on 2 September.

Bartley, who joins Lucas, the Green Party’s only MP, will also continue in his role of work and pensions spokesperson.

Bartley is also a founder and director of theological think tank Ekklesia.

The leaders have pledged to propose policies which redistribute power and wealth and enable people to ‘take control’ of their lives.

The party stands for member-nominated trustee boards and for all amendments made to schemes to be approved by members.

The pair also affirmed that they aim to put an end to the loophole that enables schemes to only pay death benefits to partners of members in same-sex marriages or civil partnerships from 2005, when civil partnerships were introduced.

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