1. Jonathan Charles Bartley was born on 16 October 1971 and is a British politician who was a co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, a position he shared with Caroline Lucas from 2016 to 2018, and then, from 2018 to 2021, with Sian Berry.
Jonathan Bartley was the Green Party's national Work and Pensions spokesperson and the party's Parliamentary candidate for Streatham in the 2015 general election.
Jonathan Bartley was the Unite to Remain candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood at the 2019 general election.
Jonathan Bartley is the founder and was 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.
Jonathan Bartley is a member of the blues rock band The Mustangs.
Jonathan Bartley's father was Christopher Bartley, an NHS consultant physician, and Normandy veteran.
Jonathan Bartley's uncle was Anthony Jonathan Bartley, a World War II Spitfire pilot and squadron leader who married the actress Deborah Kerr.
Jonathan Bartley is a direct descendant of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry.
From 1980 to 1989, Jonathan Bartley was educated at Dulwich College, a boarding independent school for boys, in Dulwich in south London.
At the age of seventeen and while still at school, Jonathan Bartley hit and killed a young student while driving a car, but the death was treated as accidental and the police did not press charges.
Jonathan Bartley volunteered on John Major's campaign team in the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election against John Redwood.
Jonathan Bartley is a regular contributor to BBC One's The Big Questions.
Jonathan Bartley has formerly contributed to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day and ITV's The Moral of the Story, and has been a columnist for The Church Times.
Jonathan Bartley has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and has written for The Guardian newspaper.
On 27 April 2010, while Jonathan Bartley was waiting to attend a hospital appointment at the Evelina Children's Hospital with his son Samuel, a Conservative Party official asked if he would like to meet the-then Leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron.
Jonathan Bartley agreed and party officials then brought the Conservative leader over to meet them, on his way to a car after a General Election campaign event in South London.
Jonathan Bartley asserted that Conservative manifesto plans would increase the segregation of disabled children as it pledged to "end the bias towards the inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream schools".
The Daily Telegraph pointed out that Jonathan Bartley had been on The Moral Maze and was a regular commentator in the media.
Jonathan Bartley said he was a "floating voter", that he felt let down by the main parties and criticised the Labour government over the issues of inclusion.
In 2012, Jonathan Bartley was selected as the Green Party candidate for the Lambeth and Southwark constituency for the London Assembly elections, winning over 18,000 votes.
Jonathan Bartley acted as the party's press officer for the London campaign.
In 2014, Jonathan Bartley contested the St Leonard's Ward on Lambeth Council as a Green candidate.
Jonathan Bartley has represented the Green Party in the media, including the BBC's welfare debate at the 2015 general election, clashing with then-Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
Jonathan Bartley sought to be the party's candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, but was defeated by Sian Berry.
Jonathan Bartley was instead named in fourth place on the party's list of candidates for the concurrent London Assembly elections and played an active role in the campaign.
On 31 May 2016, it was announced that Jonathan Bartley would run for the position of the leader of the Green Party in a job share arrangement with the former leader Caroline Lucas in the forthcoming 2016 Green Party leadership election.
Jonathan Bartley did not stand for election at the 2017 general election.
Jonathan Bartley was the Work and Pensions spokesperson for the Green Party from 2016 to 2017.
On 3 May 2018, Jonathan Bartley was elected as a Green Party councillor for St Leonard's Ward on Lambeth Council.
Jonathan Bartley stood for election as co-leader with Sian Berry and the two were successful.
On 16 October 2019, his 48th birthday, Jonathan Bartley was arrested by police while demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in Trafalgar Square.
On 8 June 2020, Jonathan Bartley announced his intention to stand again as co-leader alongside Berry.
Jonathan Bartley was reported to have said that he personally supports the banning of halal slaughter.
Jonathan Bartley later apologised and clarified his position saying he is against the suffering inflicted during slaughter on any un-stunned animals, and recognising that the majority of Halal slaughter involves pre-stunning animals.
In May 2021, Jonathan Bartley was a signatory to an open letter from Stylist magazine, alongside celebrities and other public figures, which called on the government to address what it described as an "epidemic of male violence" by funding an "ongoing, high-profile, expert-informed awareness campaign on men's violence against women and girls".
In July 2021, Jonathan Bartley announced that he would be standing down as party co-leader later in the month, triggering a leadership contest.
Jonathan Bartley is the drummer for British blues rock band The Mustangs.
Jonathan Bartley confirmed in May 2017 that he and Lucy had separated.