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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
15th September 2011 by
Pic: Demonstrators at the May 2008 Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas today found cluster munitions openly being promoted by both the Pakistan Government and Pakistan companies at the Defence System and Equipment International Exhibition (DSEi) being held in London, in breach of UK law. At the same time […]
14th September 2011 by
Caroline Lucas hasbeen named ‘MP of the Year’ in the Scottish Widows & Dods Women in PublicLife Awards- just 16 months after she was elected as the first Green to enterthe UK Parliament. The title was awardedto the Brighton Pavilion MP, who is also leader of the Green Party of Englandand Wales, for proving […]