Caroline Lucas: Labour must pursue social justice while tackling climate crisis

‘Green policy is actually social justice policy, it’s one and the same thing.’ Caroline Lucas on the Restore Nature Now march in London last weekend. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/EPA

Labour must combine tackling the climate crisis with pursuing social justice, if elected, to show that achieving net zero will not be done “on the backs of the poor”, the UK’s outgoing Green party MP has warned.

Caroline Lucas, who has held the seat of Brighton Pavilion since 2010, said: “The biggest priority is to demonstrate that is not the case. We have to make sure that this is a strategy and a policy that is the opposite of being done on the backs of the poor.”