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Also known as Caroline Patricia Lucas

British politician, Member of Parliament for the Green Party (born 1960)

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Writing for women
  • Greens for a Better Europe
  • Another England
  • Green Alternatives to Globalisation
  • Extraordinary Blessings of an Ordinary Day

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
26
Total plays
62

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Quotes

  • Extinction Rebellion are carrying a message we all need to hear. They won’t be silenced by a police crackdown, nor should they be in a free democratic society.
  • Ultimately, that speech was a dark moment in British politics. Democracy is indeed under threat from extremists. The problem is, they're running the government itself.

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Key facts

Deputy
Amelia Womack
Preceded by
Natalie Bennett
Succeeded by
Jonathan Bartley and , Siân Berry
Born
Caroline Patricia Lucas , ( 1960-12-09 ) 9 December 1960 (age 65) , Malvern , Worcestershire , England
Party
Green Party of England and Wales (1990–present)
Other political affiliations
Green Party UK (1986–1990)
Spouse
Richard Savage ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 ) ​
Education
Malvern Girls' College
Alma mater
University of Exeter University of Kansas ( Dipl. )
Website
www .carolinelucas .com
Thesis
Writing for Women: woman as reader in Elizabethan romance (1989)
Institutions
University of Sussex

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British politician who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006, 2007 to 2012, and from 2016 to 2018. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion from 2010 to 2024. She was the Green Party's first MP (although Plaid Cymru's Cynog Dafis was elected on a joint ticket in the 1990s) and their only MP until the 2024 general election.

Born in Malvern in Worcestershire, Lucas graduated from the University of Exeter and the University of Kansas before receiving a PhD from the University of Exeter in 1989. She joined the Green Party in 1986 and held various party roles, also serving on Oxfordshire County Council from 1993 to 1997. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and 2009, also serving as the party's female Principal Speaker from 2003 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2008.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caroline Lucas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.