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Green MP Caroline Lucas at a rally for Palestinian rights in May 2018
THE GREEN PARTY’s sole MP, its former leader Caroline Lucas, is to stand down at the next election.
She said her role in Parliament meant she had “struggled to spend the time I want” on the crises facing the environment.
The 62-year-old was elected as the first Green MP in 2010 and was party leader between 2008 and 2012 before returning as co-leader with Jonathan Bartley for two years from September 2016.
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
