"We need a political class that can spend and regulate in the right way, that knows its job isn't to usher in a better world for us, but to create the conditions in which we can build it ourselves. [[Caroline Lucas|[Caroline] Lucas]] knew that, but our political and democratic system is so broken it fails to people like her; it wears them down and spits them out."
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Caroline Lucas, the only Green Party MP in the period from 2010 to 2024, had announced she was standing down at the next general election.
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