Croydon and Sutton Green Party are delighted to announce that Peter Underwood has been selected as our General Election candidate for the new seat of Croydon East.
Peter said:
“I am so pleased to be selected as the candidate for the area where I live. I’m proud to be standing for the Green Party to bring some honesty, decency, and humanity back into politics.
We are facing a cost of living crisis, a climate crisis, and a crisis of politics that has become swamped in lies and corruption. The Green Party is the only party with solutions to all of those – caring about people, caring about our environment, and caring about trust.
We have suffered for too long under the current Government and the polling shows that the Conservatives are certainly not going to win this time.
In Croydon we have also suffered under Labour. They’ve become a party that cares more about success for itself than improving the lives of people they are supposed to serve.
If you keep voting for those same old parties, you’ll just get the same old politics.
We deserve better and if you want better you have to vote for it. That’s why I’m telling everyone that this time you need to vote Green.”
About Peter
Peter has lived in Croydon for over twenty years and is very active in his local community. He is on the committee of his Residents’ Association and his local woodland Friends group. He is a former chair of Croydon Friends of the Earth and was also a member of the Croydon Climate Crisis Commission.
Peter was brought up in the midlands of England, the son and grandson of coal miners and car factory workers. Peter went to his local comprehensive school and, despite becoming homeless when he was 17 years old, successfully gained a place at Oxford University where he studied Philosophy and Psychology. Peter also has a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Peter spent the first half of his career working in the civil service. He started off offering benefits advice in Croydon and over the years moved through many different government roles and promotions to end up leading the team that wrote the UK’s renewable energy strategy. He has worked in both the UK Parliament and the European Parliament.
For the last ten years Peter has worked for environment conservation charities, working to support volunteers looking after our local parks and woodlands as well as working on large rewilding projects in Scotland.
Peter has been active in the Green Party for over ten years and has held roles at local and national level in the party, as well as representing the Green Party of England and Wales at the European level.