Caroline Lucas, TheGreenParty’s first-ever MP, has announced she will not be standing again at the next general election eleanormia takes a look back at some of her most influential moments from her time in Parliament ⬇️
to take a seat in Parliament after winning the constituency of Brighton Pavillion with a majority of 1,252.
Caroline Lucas MP speaks at the launch of the Green Party’s European Election Campaign on May 8, 2019 in London, England. In June 2013, Ms Lucas was reprimanded during a Westminster Hall debate on media sexism after she wore a T-shirt with the slogan “No More Page Three”.which featured topless models and even brandished a copy of the page in the debate.
The Green Party MP, who has previously described herself as a “different kind of politician, had joinedFollowing her arrest, she said: “Despite the opposition to fracking being abundantly clear, the government has completely ignored the views of those they are supposed to represent. Ms Lucas has called for an evidence-based reform to the law which would focus prevention and treatment rather than policing.
She presented a private members’ bill to Parliament titled the Electoral Reform Bill, which would ensure general elections used the Additional Member System already used in used in Scotland, Wales, and London. “And for the benefit of Hansard, the Leader of the House has been spread across three seats, lying out as if that was something very boring for him to listen to tonight.”that it was a “mistake” to have reclined back on the seats during the late-night debate, and admitted it was “distracting from the importance of what was going on”.In 2019, the Green Party MP made the extraordinary move ofin a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
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