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Budget 2012 – True Blue budget is nail in the coffin of green government pledge

21st March 2012 | Comments Off on Budget 2012 – True Blue budget is nail in the coffin of green government pledge

  Pic: the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s burgundy budget briefcase: more true blue, certainly not green.    Some headline sell-outs – ‘Environment versus economy’ rhetoric and tax breaks for oil and […]

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Caroline Lucas champions bill to reduce food waste

20th March 2012 | Comments Off on Caroline Lucas champions bill to reduce food waste

  Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas is championing a new campaign in Parliament to force the big supermarkets and food manufacturers to donate a proportion of their “waste” food to […]

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Vote down the NHS Bill – Greens' final appeal to city's Tory MPs

16th March 2012 | Comments Off on Vote down the NHS Bill – Greens' final appeal to city's Tory MPs

  Caroline Lucas, Brighton Pavilion Green MP and councillors, joined the Save Our NHS rally outside Tory office on Saturday 17 March. Leading Greens from across the city joined campaigners […]

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Caroline Lucas joins high pay board

7th March 2012 | Comments Off on Caroline Lucas joins high pay board

  Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has accepted an invitation to sit on the advisory board of the High Pay Centre. The new centre is a follow-on project from the High Pay Commission, which helped bring the stratospheric salary packages of some top company executives […]

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Labour's white flag economics

16th January 2012 | Comments Off on Labour's white flag economics

  Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas wrote to the Guardian newspaper. Her letter is below. To the Guardian newspaper editor: In his interview with your paper on Saturday, Ed Balls […]

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Brighton's Green MP named 'most influential' this year

6th December 2011 | Comments Off on Brighton's Green MP named 'most influential' this year

  Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has been recognised by a prestigious political body as the MP who has most influenced the political agenda in 2011. Since her election in […]

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Hove councillor takes Greens' winning message to Paris conference

14th November 2011 | Comments Off on Hove councillor takes Greens' winning message to Paris conference

  Pic: Alex Phillips and Caroline Lucas talk to voters in the Goldsmid by-election. Photo credit: www.jjwaller.com Hove Green city councillor, Alex Phillips, addressed a conference in Paris at the […]

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Caroline Lucas to vote for EU referendum

24th October 2011 | Comments Off on Caroline Lucas to vote for EU referendum

  A referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU is a vital opportunity to create a more democratic and accountable Europe – with a clearer purpose for the future, […]

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National Trust campaign against Government planning reforms backed by Lucas

12th October 2011 | Comments Off on National Trust campaign against Government planning reforms backed by Lucas

  Caroline Lucas Brighton’s Green MP has pledged her support for the National Trust’s ‘Up for Grabs’ campaign by signing a petition against sweeping reforms to the planning system. The […]

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Brighton Green MP and councillors welcome fresher uni students

2nd October 2011 | Comments Off on Brighton Green MP and councillors welcome fresher uni students

  Green councillors and Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas (pictured) welcomed freshers students at local universities last week. They were there to give students an opportunity to meet their local […]

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