Caroline Lucas

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Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas (born December 9, 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire ) is a British politician with the Green Party of England and Wales . She was chairman of the party from 2008 to 2012 and co-chairman from September 2016 to September 2018. Since May 2010, she has been the only MP of her party in the House of Commons . She was previously a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2010 .

biography

Lucas studied at the University of Exeter , in 1989 she received her doctorate in English and women's studies . In the European elections of 1999 , she was in the constituency of South East England in the European Parliament voted, where she is the Group of the Greens / EFA joined. In the 2004 and 2009 European elections , she was able to win a new mandate. Most recently she was a member of the Committee on International Trade and the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council .

In 2010 she left the European Parliament after winning the 2010 British general election in the Brighton Pavilion constituency . She won the first seat for the Green Party in the lower house. At the end of 2012, Lucas passed the chairmanship of her party to Natalie Bennett . In the general election on May 7, 2015 and the general election on June 8, 2017 , she was able to win the Brighton Pavilion constituency again and increase her share of the vote to 52.3 percent. She remains the only Green Party MP in the UK lower house.

Lucas takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis . She is one of the signatories of an open letter published in December 2018, in which politicians have failed to address the crisis and are called upon to join movements such as Extinction Rebellion and to refrain from consuming.

Web links

Commons : Caroline Lucas  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Premiere in the lower house - Greens win seats in parliament for the first time , Spiegel Online from 7 May 2010.
  2. ^ Brighton Pavilion Parliamentary constituency. BBC News, June 9, 2017, accessed June 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Act now to prevent an environmental catastrophe. The Guardian, December 9, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lucas, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Green Party), Member of the House of Commons, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Malvern