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In April 2007 he joined the Green Party of England and Wales prospective parliamentary candidate in the constituency of Oxford East.

However, in December 2009 Tatchell announced he was standing down from the post due to brain damage he says was sustained from injuries by President Mugabe's bodyguards when Tatchell was trying to arrest him for the second time, and by neo-Nazis in Moscow while campaigning for gay rights, as well as from an accident on a bus.

He is a regular contributor to The Guardians online opinion section, " Comment is Free ".