Green Party wins first ever UK parliamentary seat
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The Green Party made its most significant political breakthrough in Britain on Friday when it won its first ever national parliamentary seat in the southern English seaside city of Brighton. Caroline Lucas, the environmental party's leader and a Member of the European Parliament for South East England, won the Brighton Pavilion seat, overturning a Labour majority of 5,000 in the process.
"Tonight the people of Brighton Pavilion have made history by electing Britain's first Green MP," a jubilant Lucas said. "Thank you so much for putting the politics of hope above the politics of fear. (Reuters)
