Caroline Lucas: Last News

Green MP Caroline Lucas has urged the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to amend current rules around the Cold Weather Payment structure for this winter, so that £25 would be provided every time extreme cold weather is forecast for the following day. A payment of £25 is currently made only when temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees Celsius, or below, for seven consecutive days.

Travel plans are being altered, ministerial meetings in Westminster are being cancelled, as Rishi Sunak has now finally called the much-anticipated General Election for July 4 - and with more than 100 MPs throwing in the towel at this election, including a former Prime Minister, the next parliament will look very different.

Gomez guitarist and Chair of the Ivors Academy Tom Gray has beaten Eddie Izzard in the bid to be Brighton Pavilion’s Labour candidate at the next UK general election.Musician and founder of the #BrokenRecord campaign Gray was selected as candidate today (December 17), and is hoping to become the first Labour MP for the constituency in more than a decade.He said on X/Twitter that he was “delighted and humbled to be selected”.Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has announced that she plans to stand down at the next general election, which will take place no later than January 2025.Delighted and humbled to be selected to be the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion. Thanks so much to everyone who helped in the campaign and thanks to Eddie, Lucy and Birgit for showing such solidarity and integrity on the trail.

in reference to allegations that Cameron once put his penis in a dead pig.Dub Pistols reacted angrily to the appointment. “One of the most vile women in politics finally sacked and then they bring back David Cameron, The Conservatives have clearly run out of ideas,” they wrote.It's not the first time he's had a pig job, er, BIG jobhttps://t.co/XfclBWsuMY— Cassetteboy (@Cassetteboy) November 13, 2023One of the most vile women in politics finally sacked and then they bring back David Cameron, The Conservatives have clearly run out of ideas pic.twitter.com/Mg0Nppt0F4— Dub Pistols (@dubpistols) November 13, 2023Return of Cameron is beginning of Sunak’s ‘And Brexit Was All A Dream’ Strategy.— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) November 13, 2023Many politicians also reacted angrily to his appointment with Green MP Caroline Lucas writing: “Appointing reckless #Brexit referendum instigator Cameron as Foreign Sec is a democratic embarrassment.

MPs and peers from all sides have called for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies. Former Brexit Secretary David Davis MP, Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey, Green MP Caroline Lucas and former shadow Attorney General Baroness Shami Chakrabarti are among the 65 members of the House of Commons and House of Lords who campaign Big Brother Watch say have backed their call for a halt to the technology’s use.

World leaders are tagging the wrong Liz Truss on Twitter when trying to send congratulations on her appointment as Prime Minister.

Priti Patel has resigned as Home Secretary and will be returning to the backbenches from Tuesday as Liz Truss begins to change the guard in the Tory cabinet.

Boris Johnson has “clocked off” and missed three Cobra meetings on the UK heatwave to go on a jolly, Labour has claimed