Larry Sanders (politician)

Lawrence "Larry" Sanders (born April 25, 1935) is an American-born British academic and politician. He is a member of the Green Party. Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the brother of United States senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Larry Sanders
Health Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 February 2016
Councillor on the Oxfordshire County Council
In office 2005–2013
Personal details
Born	(1935-04-25) 25 April 1935 (age 90)[1] New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Green Party
Domestic partner	Janet Hall ​ (m. 1998)​
Parents	Eli Sanders (1904–1962) Dorothy Glassberg (1913–1960)
Relatives	Bernie Sanders (brother)
Education	Brooklyn College Harvard Law School
Occupation	Academic, social worker, politician

Sanders moved to the United Kingdom in 1968. He was active in the Labour Party in Oxford in the 1980s. He left the Labour Party in 2001 because he felt that it had moved too far to the right under Tony Blair, and joined the Green Party.^[2] Sanders was a Green Party county councillor representing the East Oxford division on Oxfordshire County Council, until he retired from the Council in 2013.^[3][4] He was a candidate to be the Member of Parliament for Witney. He came in fourth place.^[5]