The co-leaders of the Green Party, including Bristol’s Carla Denyer, say they could soon be in government as British politics is reaching its "tipping point".
Clifton Down councillor Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, who won the party's leadership campaign two weeks ago, have said people from across the political spectrum are turning Green.
Speaking ahead of their first Green Party in-person conference, Ms Denyer said: "While it might seem like renting a government in England, and Wales is a long way away, just like the climate has tipping points, so politics can have tipping points.
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"And I think we might be coming up to one now with a lot of voters, and very disillusioned with the feed old sort of tired parties that haven't really learned any new tricks lately, where we're finding that we're picking up votes from people with very different backgrounds and very different parts of the country."
Describing her middle-class upbringing, Ms Denyer admitted she didn't know her parent's political stance but insisted her "strong principles" led her to the party and helped to unite members.
She said: "I was part way through my engineering degree when I had a kind of epiphany about really quite how bad climate change is. Over the summer holidays, it really hit me like a train."
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After that summer Ms Denyer felt she had a duty to begin campaigning for the environment, social justice and human rights.
Mr Ramsay said his own "modest" upbringing in Norwich enables him to connect with people from all sides of the political spectrum, The Mirror reported.
He said: "We weren’t poor but we certainly weren’t rich either. So I understand different political perspectives that people have.
"My family would’ve been Conservative voters from modest backgrounds.
"Most of my friends and people I met in university were Labour voters, and that's where a lot of our voters have come from."
At their Bristol-based conference, the party said every UK household should get £320 this winter funded by landlords to help fund soaring fuel bills.
The co-leaders demanded an increased one-off Winter Fuel Payment to be extended to every household in the country this year, which would come on top of the existing Winter Fuel Payment.
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