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Caroline Lucas takes to the rooftops in Bristol West

By Alice Jones  Wednesday Dec 4, 2019

Caroline Lucas said “ambitious green voices is what the UK desperately needs” on a visit to Bristol.

The former Green Party leader and incumbent MP for Brighton Pavilion made her second trip to the city since the announcement that Britain will head to the polls on December 12 to give her support to parliamentary hopeful Carla Denyer, who is standing in Bristol West.

Lucas got a bird’s eye view of the constituency on Tuesday, December 3, as she took to the roof of the We The Curious building to see the solar panels as she spoke about her party’s ambitions for renewable energy.

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She visited on the same day chancellor Sajid Javid popped into an Avonmouth business.

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Caroline Lucas visited Bristol West to support Carla Denyer

The Greens are once again pinning their hopes of gaining a second MP on Bristol West. In 2017, Green candidate Molly Scott Cato came in third and Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire secured one of the biggest majorities in the country.

Speaking at the Green Party campaign launch, Denyer told Bristol24/7 the political landscape is much different this time around.

Lucas said: “What we can do is to really be that voice constantly pushing the others to increase their ambition.”

After visiting the roof of We The Curious, Lucas and Denyer visited Everoze, a renewable energy consultancy. They were greeted by a team of employees from the company, as well as the president of the Green Party Society at the University of Bristol, Sarah Sharp.

Denyer outlined her plans for a sustainable future and ambitious plans to make Bristol carbon-neutral by 2030.

Lucas spoke about how the next ten years are crucial in terms of “getting off the collision course that we’re on with climate catastrophe”.

Carla Denyer and Caroline Lucas give speeches at Everoze

Read more: Green Party launches General Election campaign in Bristol

 

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