Caroline Lucas on Heathrow and climate change: ‘The apocalypse is happening’

The Brighton MP may be stepping down as co-leader of the Green party, but she is doing so to step up her fight against a third runway and to secure a ‘people’s vote’ on the EUThe last time I met Caroline Lucas, she was about to stand trial. The Green party co-leader was prosecuted in 2014 following an anti-fracking protest in Balcombe, West Sussex, and was due in court the week after we met, yet her spirits that day were remarkably high. If optimism has been the defining qualit