Green Party campaigners will be be pulling out all the stops this week, encouraged by the, 31st May 2009, Sunday Telegraph/ICM poll which puts the Greens on 11% - ahead of UKIP nationally for the first time this campaign.
With 11%, the Greens would expect to return two or three new MEPs, as well as holding their existing seats in London and the South East.
In the county elections, the Greens remain confident of gains in Norfolk and Lancashire, capitalising on the strength of city council Green groups in Norwich and Lancaster. But in the South West, Devon Greens may be about to bring off a surprise result, a party spokesperson said today.
A poll published in the Daily Express two weeks ago, commissioned by UKIP and conducted by ComRes, put the Greens on 16% in the South East (including Eastern region) - in third place ahead of both UKIP and the LibDems - but the Sunday Telegraph/ICM poll is the first of this campaign to put the Greens ahead of UKIP nationally.
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