Budget 2012 – True Blue budget is nail in the coffin of green government pledge 21st March 2012 by 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 gas show Osborne still doesn’t get it – Coalition to bulldoze ahead with ‘growth at any cost’ planning reforms – Toxic 50p tax cut for […] Read more »
Caroline Lucas champions bill to reduce food waste 20th March 2012 by 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 charities feeding people living in food poverty. The Food Waste Bill, launched last week by Kerry McCarthy, the MP for Bristol East, highlights the scale […] Read more »
Vote down the NHS Bill – Greens' final appeal to city's Tory MPs 16th March 2012 by 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 outside the Conservative Association offices in Church Road, Hove, on Saturday 17 March, urging the city’s two Conservative MPs to persuade Parliamentary colleagues to oppose […] Read more »
Caroline Lucas joins high pay board 7th March 2012 by 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 under closer scrutiny. The High Pay Centre will continue to look at rewards at the top, but will also branch out to focus on other key […] Read more »
Labour's white flag economics 16th January 2012 by 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 effectively holds up a white flag and admits that Labour has given up any attempt to set out an alternative economic agenda (Beyond the hair […] Read more »
Brighton's Green MP named 'most influential' this year 6th December 2011 by 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 2010, the UK’s only Green MP has made a significant impact through her work on a range of issues – from putting pressure on the […] Read more »
Hove councillor takes Greens' winning message to Paris conference 14th November 2011 by 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 weekend on how to win elections. Alex, who was a key organiser in the successful 2010 Parliamentary election of Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas, was […] Read more »
Caroline Lucas to vote for EU referendum 24th October 2011 by 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, said Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas. Ms Lucas has tabled an amendment to the Conservative Backbench motion for a referendum on the UK’s membership of […] Read more »
National Trust campaign against Government planning reforms backed by Lucas 12th October 2011 by 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 petition calls on the Coalition Government to withdraw and rethink its proposed National Planning Policy Framework which would introduce a presumption in favour of development […] Read more »
Brighton Green MP and councillors welcome fresher uni students 2nd October 2011 by 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 elected representatives, find out more about the Green-led city council administration’s plans for the coming months and learn more about the work being done by […] Read more »