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What will election time hold for the Greens?
Luke James speaks to CAROLINE LUCAS at Green Party conference, where her book Dishonourable Friends?, memoirs of her time in Parliament and a manifesto for change at Westminster, was launched

You’re a one-woman party in Westminster with a huge caseload of constituency work and a crucial election coming up, so why write a book as well?

The book is about the anger that I felt seeing up close just how badly Westminster works, frankly.

I think if most people recognise the lack of scrutiny that most legislation gets, they would be shocked.

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