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As Green leader prepares to step down, she leaves behind more established party which must continue to evolve without her
One day in 1986, Caroline Lucas went looking for the Green party headquarters, finding them in a “shoe box” on Clapham High Street in south London, and immediately signed up as a member.
Thirty-seven years later, Lucas has announced she will stand down at the next election as the party’s only MP after decades as its highest-profile member. In that time she has been one of its MEPs, its only MP, its leader on two occasions, and has spearheaded its core strategies of social and environmental justice to achieve some of the party’s best ever election results.
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