Caroline Lucas is a British politician and the current Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion. She is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and the first ever Green MP elected to the House of Commons.

Lucas was born in Malvern, Worcestershire, and studied at the University of Exeter, where she graduated with a first-class degree in English Literature. After working for the charity Oxfam, she became a political campaigner and was elected