Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire) is an English politician. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region and the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK (along with Jean Lambert), a post she has held since 1999. She is also the Green Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for the Brighton Pavilion constituency. In fact she was elected in 2010 with a small majority and gave her MEP seat to the man she replaced as candidate for MP, Mr Keith Taylor. Since the election (now 2013) her far left politics, obsessed with growth, have had little notice.