Parliament always felt like a nightmare: Caroline Lucas on life as a Green MP and what shell do next
The Guardian In the garden of a cafe in the middle of her Brighton Pavilion constituency, Caroline Lucas is eight hours into her bombshell day: the countrys only Green MP has just announced that she wont stand again for election. She went from a squeaky, 1,200, didnt-see-that-coming majority in 2010 to a dont-bother-counting-them almost 20,000 majority in 2019, and has ascended to that very rare status with many of her constituents: it doesnt matter whether or not you agree with her, you vote for her anyway. It would be rude not to: she works so hard and makes so much sense.
She has the very short hair of a person who doesnt have time for hair, estimates that she works 75 or 80 hours a week and looks harried but undefeated. I already knew she wasnt going to stand again, obviously thats why Im here. But I still cant quite believe it, and keep opening my mouth to start a question that turns out to be nothing but but: But youre an institution But your constituents love you But you actually make things happen; who else is going to do that? But theres so much still to do.
