Winning the Green Party leadership race on a joint ticket makes Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley the first ever job share at the top of an English political party (the Scottish Greens have been doing it for years by having two co-convenors at the top). The pair won convincingly, picking up 86 per cent of the vote in the first round. Yet whilst the margin of their win was clear, what’s less obvious is how the job share will work in reality.
There is, though, one valuable asset that Lucas will certainly be able to offer the Greens. Whilst her predecessor Natalie Bennett might have upped the party’s share of the vote by almost three per cent at the last election (in 2015, more than a million people backed the Green party; four times as many than at any other general election), she never quite mastered the media. And
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