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And Caroline Lucas again showing her class:
"While parliament might be deadlocked by Brexit, other political imperatives have not disappeared, and some MPs are trying to make sure they are not forgotten.
On Tuesday the Green MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Clive Lewis are publishing a private member’s bill for a so-called Green New Deal, intended to introduce a radical, decade-long shift to move to low-carbon energy, with wider environmental protections.
The idea has been in the news recently due to efforts by Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to push it in the US. But the concept has been around for longer – Lucas co-founded a UK group dedicated to the idea 10 years ago.
Taking its name from Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, the Green New Deal would similarly seek to boost prosperity through government spending and intervention, in this case in areas such as more sustainable energy, homes and transport.
This is, Lucas and Lewis say, the first bill to reach the UK parliament, and they hope to gain some cross-party support. Lucas said: “We need to do what is required of us – not simply what is seen as politically possible.”