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CAROLINE LUCAS announced today that she will step down as co-leader of the Green Party.
Ms Lucas has shared leadership of the party with Jonathan Bartley since 2016 and previously led it from 2008 to 2012.
The Brighton Pavilion MP said she planned to focus more on her work in Parliament and her constituents, and said she believed she and Mr Bartley had strengthened the party’s “position as a leading force in progressive politics.
“We have not been eclipsed by the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, but instead have used these unique circumstances to push for even more radical change,” she wrote in the Guardian.
But the Green Party of England and Wales received just 512,000 votes in last year’s general election — less than half the 1.1 million it won in 2015.
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