Caroline Lucas was the best PM Britain never had - but she's shown us how to fix our politics | Neal Lawson

The Green MP for Brighton Pavilion is leaving Westminster. It's a sign that change will only come to a broken system from outsideWith our forlorn sense that politics isn't working and that democracy is broken, as we feel the impacts of both climate change and the decision to leave the European Union in real time, the symbolic answer to our political crisis was always staring us in the face. It was Caroline Lucas, the best prime minister we never had - and, now that she is standing down from her Brighton Pavilion seat, we will never get.In her bold but gentle way, Lucas embodied the fact that politicians and politics could be better. Not perfect, but good enough. Good enough to know that meaningful change needs a vision of a good society to compel it, alongside bold enough policies and strong enough alliances to get us there.Neal Lawson is director of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass Continue reading...