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To: Jeremy Corbyn
Offer Green MP Caroline Lucas a shadow cabinet environment post
Offer Green MP Caroline Lucas a shadow cabinet environment post in his first post-election re-shuffle
Why is this important?
We the undersigned urge Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to appoint Green MP Caroline Lucas to his shadow environment team - assuming she would accept the invitation.
There are both principled and expedient reasons for this course of action. First, it's simply the right thing to do: Caroline is an outstanding MP and person, and the Greens stood down candidates in a substantial number of seats in the general election to help Labour and Lib Dems unseat sitting Tory MPs. Labour did not reciprocate by standing aside in either Caroline's Brighton seat or in the Bristol seat targeted by Green candidate Molly Scott Cato; and this generous gesture by Jeremy would be an excellent way of showing our appreciation for the efforts the Greens made in the general election to move beyond the parochial triballsm of "the old politics".
Such a course of action would also show that Labour is open to working collaboratively with progressive voices who can help advance the causes of the progressive left, including environmentalism; and it would give a strong signal to such forces that we can and will strive to work together in future to lock right-wing Tory governments out of political power for good.
Offering Caroline a shadow cabinet post is surely a no-brainer - and we know that many if not most Labour members would support it.
Please, Jeremy - do the right thing by us all!
Organisers: Dr Richard House and Councillor Skeena Rathor
The Politics Kitchen, Stroud, Gloucestershire
