Amelia Womack

Education

Womack attended Bassaleg School from 1996 to 2003. Following a BSc in Environmental Biology, at Liverpool University. Womack completed an MSc in environmental technology at Imperial College London in 2009, with a thesis entitled 'Who's afraid of environmental law? How the law of Ecocide can secure our environment for business resilience'.

Political career

Womack joined The Green Party around 2000. She stood as a Green candidate for Herne Hill ward on Lambeth Council, in the United Kingdom local elections, 2010, and for London in the 2014 European Parliament election, though she won neither seat.

She was elected deputy leader of The Green Party in September 2014, delivering her first speech in the role at the party's conference on 6 September. Having been elected at the age of 29, Womack is the youngest deputy leader of any political party in the UK.

She stood in the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, finishing third with just over 10% of the vote.

In September 2015, Womack announced her intention to stand for the Wales Green Party in the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election. An ITV article titled "Green deputy leader wants to switch to Welsh politics" wrote of Newport-born Womack. The Welsh Green Party announced in late October that she had been selected as the lead candidate for the regional South Wales Central (proportional representation) list as well as for the Cardiff Central constituency.

Womack's re-election as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales was announced at the party conference in early September 2016. She will serve for a second two-year term.

Through her work as an End Ecocide Campaigner, she has worked with Vivienne Westwood to promote the change in environmental law and attempt to secure the one million votes required for a European Citizens' Initiative.

In August 2016, she criticised Byron Hamburgers after they worked with the Home Office to call their London workers to a fake Health and Safety briefing, whereat immigration officials present at the venue arrested several employees, deporting 35 for immigration offences. Womack was quoted as saying "It’s about the family and friends of people who are left behind as well. You don’t need to be pro-migration to realise that employing people, having them pay tax and contribute to the company for years and then turn them over to authorities without any responsibility for the chaos caused is the wrong thing to do".

In March 2017, Womack reported the Daily Mail newspaper to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over a front page photo of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon with the caption "Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it". In her submission she said: "This headline and the further derogatory comments inside the paper would not have even been considered, let alone published, if the two politicians in question had been men".

In June 2017, she was critical of a potential coalition between the Conservative Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, following the 2017 general election. Womack branded the potential tie-up as a “coalition of cruelty”. She said: “We may have seen a record number of women gain seats in the Parliament this week, but the 10 MPs of the anti-abortion, anti-equal marriage DUP look set to have a disproportionate influence which should concern us all. The DUP’s obstruction to legal abortion in Northern Ireland has left many women in dire circumstances, forced to travel to England where they are not entitled to NHS-funded terminations or face prosecution for seeking help at home. It is deeply concerning that a party responsible for so much pain could be in a position to exert so much influence. Women’s rights are under threat and we must work together to stop a lurch to the right under a Tory-DUP alliance”.