Green MP Caroline Lucas has published an open letter to constituents through the local Argus newspaper to announce that she will not be standing as MP for Brighton Pavillion at the next General Election. Caroline told constituents: “The reason I came into politics was to change things. 13 years ago, it was inconceivable that Parliament would have declared a climate emergency; I’ve put issues like a universal basic income and a legal right to access nature on the political agenda; secured the first Parliamentary debate in a generation on drug law reform; and thanks to my work in Parliament, a Natural History GCSE will soon be on the syllabus. I have said the previously unsayable, only to see it become part of the mainstream, on coal, on the myth that endless economic growth makes us happier, on a Green New Deal. My determination to try and make change is stronger than ever. I look forward to having the time to explore ever more imaginative and creative ways of helping to make a liveable future a reality.”
