A Green first?

A few years back there was a question on an OCR paper asking candidates to name two parties other than the big three who had MPs elected to the House of Commons. It was surprising how many candidates nominated the Greens. Whilst they have tasted electoral success at local, devolved and European level they have yet to return an MP to Westminster. In fact, Britain is alone in Europe in never electing a Green to the national legislature.

But this may change this year as Caroline Lucas is leading in the polls in Brighton. Read more in today’s Indy.