Green Options » caroline lucas http://greenoptions.com/tag/caroline-lucas Posts tagged 'caroline lucas' Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en UK Greens Elect First Leader in Party’s History http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/uk-greens-elect-first-leader-in-partys-history/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/uk-greens-elect-first-leader-in-partys-history/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:32:14 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/06/uk-greens-elect-first-leader-in-partys-history/ On Friday, the UK Green Party named their first leader in since the party’s formal inception in 1985. Caroline Lucas was elected leader following a ballot of the party’s members on Friday in London.

Until now the Green party has always had what they call “principal speakers,” that act as spokespeople for the party, rather than any structure of formal leadership. In the party’s formative 1970’s, founders were suspicious of such hierarchies, and for that reason did without them.

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