Jonathan Bartley
| Jonathan Bartley | |
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Bartley pictured with Caroline Lucas in July 2016
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| Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales | |
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Assumed office 2 September 2016 Serving with Caroline Lucas |
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| Deputy | Amelia Womack |
| Preceded by | Natalie Bennett |
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| Born |
16 October 1971 London, United Kingdom |
| Political party |
Conservative (circa 1995) Green Party of England and Wales (2011 - present) |
| Education | Dulwich College |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Political activist |
Jonathan Bartley (born 16 October 1971, London) is an English politician, and since 2 September 2016, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, a position he shares with Caroline Lucas. He was the Green Party's national Work and Pensions spokesperson and the party's Parliamentary candidate for Streatham in the 2015 general election.
Bartley is the founder and was (until 2016) co-director of Ekklesia, an independent think tank looking at the role of religion in public life and appears regularly on UK radio and television programmes. He is a member of the blues rock band The Mustangs and lives with his family in Streatham, South London.
Bartley was born in London on 16 October 1971. His father was Dr Christopher Bartley, an NHS consultant physician, and Normandy veteran. Bartley's uncle was Anthony Bartley, a World War II spitfire pilot and squadron leader who married the actress Deborah Kerr. Bartley is a direct descendent of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. Bartley accidentally killed someone in a car accident when he was 17.
From 1980—1989, Bartley was educated at Dulwich College, a boarding independent school for boys, in Dulwich in south London, followed by the London School of Economics, from which he graduated in 1994.
After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1994, Bartley worked at the UK Parliament as a researcher and parliamentary assistant for a number of years, and was part of John Major's campaign team in the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election against John Redwood.
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