Hannah Spencer is not the first MP to campaign against alcohol

Spectator Australia · Andy Twelves · Friday 1 May 2026

Hannah Spencer is not the first MP to campaign against alcohol

Green MP Hannah Spencer has said Parliament’s drinking culture makes her feel ‘really uneasy’. Her comments, in an interview with PoliticsJOE,… The post Hannah Spencer is not the first MP to campaign against alcohol appeared first on The Spectator Australia. What to read next: Why the Greens have a problem with alcohol | How to stop rising Jew hate in Britain | Why is Polanski downplaying anti-Semitism in the Green party? | The High Court has undermined freedom of speech in universities

A Green MP discovers Parliament drinks too much — next week's bulletin: water is wet. Every wave of new MPs arrives convinced they've found the original sin, and every one of them watches the bar tab survive their term. The drinking culture isn't the problem, mate — it's the symptom of a building where the work could be done sober in half the time and nobody wants to admit it.

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