Caroline Lucas meets Michael Morpurgo: ‘You were our hero’

The Green party co-leader and the War Horse author talk Trump, the planet and staying hopefulCaroline Lucas, joint leader of the Green party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, was working on a Renaissance literature PhD when she decided that politics, not poetry, was the life for her. Michael Morpurgo had a job as a primary schoolteacher when he realised that storytelling was where his talents lay. Now 73, he is one of the biggest names in children’s literature, a former children’s laurea