Caroline Lucas: 'Insulating every home in Britain is just about the best policy you can come up with'

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Green Party's lone MP talks about her priorities for the coming Parliament and why the government should do more to support low carbon businesses

Caroline Lucas is not pulling any punches about the first past the post system that left her as the Green Party's only MP in May's election despite the party securing only around 300,000 votes fewer than...

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