Caroline Lucas was the UK’s first Green Party Member of Parliament between 2010 and 2024, and before that served for 10 years in the European Parliament. 

She has also served as both Leader and Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.  She is a writer, campaigner and keynote speaker, with a particular interest in the role of education and the arts in mobilising action on the climate and nature emergencies.  She has won numerous awards for her work: they include topping the list of the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour One Planet Power List of influential activists, educators and campaigners in 2020, and in 2024 the UK’s largest sustainable business awards scheme presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. 

She is Co-President of the European Movement, advisor to several climate and nature organisations including the Centre for Climate Psychology and the Climate Majority Project, and a Trustee of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.  Her latest book, a Sunday Times bestseller, is Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story.  

Caroline was first elected as Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion in 2010, and was elected with a larger majority at the following three consecutive General Elections. She served as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2008 to 2012, and Co-leader from 2016 to 2018. From 1999-2010 she served as one of the Party's first MEPs and represented the South East region until becoming the UK's first Green MP.

As an MP, Caroline was a member of Parliament’s influential Environmental Audit Committee and has also sat on a number of temporary committees set up to scrutinise Government legislation. She has served as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Climate Change and Limits to Growth.

The First Green MP

She has been a Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on the Green New Deal, on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, and on Democratic Participation, as well as Deputy Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

She has taken to the courts as well as to the Commons, successfully forcing the Government to admit it had breached the law over its awarding of PPE contracts during the pandemic. And the cross-party court case of which she was a member exposed Boris Johnson as having illegally prorogued Parliament over Brexit.

A passionate campaigner across a broad range of issues, Caroline is:

Awards:

Caroline was named the 'Most Influential MP' in 2012 by the Political Studies Association, 'MP of the Year' in the Scottish Widows and Dods Women in Public Life Awards 2011, and 'Newcomer of the Year' in the Spectator's 2010 Parliamentarian awards.

She has been voted the UK's most ethical politician in 2007, 2009 and 2010 by readers of the Observer, and in 2008 was judged one of the Guardian’s top “eco-heroes”. She received Red Magazine's Woman of the Year Award 2010 in the ethical/eco category and is in the Environment Agency's Top 100 Eco-Heroes of all time.

The Patchwork Foundation named Caroline MP of the Year 2014, Overall MP of the Parliamentary Term 2010-2015 and Other Party People's Choice MP of the Year 2017 for her work with deprived and minority communities in Brighton and across the country. She again won the People's Choice MP of the Year in 2020. 

Caroline has received the Michael Kay Award from the RSPCA for her outstanding contribution to European animal welfare and the Lord Houghton Award for Services to Animal Welfare.

She received the Best MP Award at the 2018 Green Heart Hero Awards.

In 2020, she topped the list of the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Our Planet Power List of influential activists, educators and campaigners, and in 2024 the UK’s largest sustainable business awards scheme, Edie, presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. 

In 2025, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to politics and the environment from the University of Sussex.