The comedian is aiming to be selected as Labour's candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election, when the Green Party's only MP Caroline Lucas is standing down
Ms Lucas, 62, made history when she was elected as the MP for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election, becoming the first and only Green Party candidate to enter the House of Commons.
Her share of the vote has increased at every election since, and she won with a majority of almost 20,000 in 2019.In an interview with Brighton news outlet The Argus, Izzard praised the outgoing Green MP for doing a"wonderful job", but added:"One MP can't make a government. The Green Party is the party of protest, the Conservative Party is the party of chaos and Labour is the party of governance.
If selected to stand for Labour, and then elected at the next general election, Izzard would become Labour's first MP in the constituency for 13 years. Izzard would also break a glass ceiling by becoming Labour's first transgender MP, telling The Argus:"That would be very positive but just like Obama being an African-American man becoming president, it wasn't the thing that defined his presidency."
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