Siân Berry to run to exchange Caroline Lucas as Brighton MP
Ms Lucas, who has served as Brighton Pavilion’s MP since 2010, announced last week that she would be stepping down on the subsequent common election.
In a letter to members of the Brighton and Hove Green Party, Ms Berry stated that if chosen, she would hope to construct on Ms Lucas’ “tremendous and inspiring record”.
She informed members she can be based mostly within the coastal metropolis over the approaching weeks throughout their choice course of, and that her “long experience as an elected Green, leader and candidate in the highest pressure elections” would put her in good stead for the job.
Ms Berry was the occasion’s candidate for London mayor in 2008, 2016 and 2021. She has served as a councillor in Camden since 2014, and as London Assembly Member since 2016. Between 2018 and 2021, she was the occasion’s co-leader, alongside Jonathan Bartley.
She is at the moment high of the occasion’s record of Assembly candidates for the 2024 City Hall election.
Ms Berry beforehand ran for Parliament in Hampstead and Highgate in 2005, and in Holborn and St Pancras in 2017, the place she tried to unseat native MP Sir Keir Starmer.