Caroline Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion at the general election in May Pairs of parliamentary candidates should be allowed to stand in general elections and share the job if elected, the Green party’s leader is set to say.
Caroline Lucas is expected to make the suggestion later at the party’s first conference since she was elected an MP.
She believes such a move would open up jobs in politics to women.
Ms Lucas became the Green’s first MP at the last general election but the party’s share was less than that of UKIP and the British National Party.
At the conference in Birmingham, she will urge her party to savour her victory, and help change the institution of which she is now a member.
She will say that job sharing an MP’s position would do open politics up to women, while acknowledging some will “pour scorn” on her proposal.
She will tell the conference the Greens now have a place at the heart of British politics.
The party had stood in more constituencies in England and Wales than ever before, fielding more than 300 candidates.
In May, Ms Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion, with a majority of 1,252 over Labour’s Nancy Platts.
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