This shouldn’t be the end of an era for green politics and politicians

While Caroline Lucas will be a huge loss in the fight against climate change, hopefully her departure will act as an alarm to wake everyone else up, writes Femi Oluwole

Lucas has been the Green MP for Brighton Pavillion since 2010 (PA)

So many politicians have taken a major hit in the last couple of weeks. Trump got criminally indicted. Boris Johnson lost his job. Not to mention the MPs that chose to follow him off that cliff. Nicola Sturgeon got temporarily arrested. Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi passed away.

But only one leaves a gaping and worrying hole in our democracy: Caroline Lucas has announced she won’t run in the next election.

That is a “goodbye” to the only Green Party MP in parliament. Doesn’t that seem a bit odd to you? The warnings about climate change and the threats to the environment have only been getting louder in recent years, with Generation Z heralding a new age of green politics.