It has reselected serving MP Caroline Lucas for Brighton Pavilion, alongside Green councillors Ollie Sykes and Alex Phillips for Hove and Brighton Kemptown respectively. Hove and Brighton Kemptown are both currently held by Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Lloyd Russell-Moyle. After a city-wide ballot, the Green Party selected former party leader Caroline Lucas, who has been elected as MP for Brighton Pavilion three times since becoming the UK’s first Green MP in 2010. She doubled her majority in 2017, receiving more than 50 per cent of the vote. On her re-selection she said: “It’s been an incredible honour to represent the people of Brighton Pavilion in Parliament since 2010 and I’m proud local Green Party members have re-selected me as their parliamentary candidate. “No matter who’s in government, I will always stand up for our city – our local schools and hospitals, our unique local businesses and diverse communities – as a strong, independent Green voice in Westminster.” Green Party councillor and finance lead Ollie Sykes has been selected as the Green candidate in the Hove constituency. Cllr Sykes has been a city councillor in Hove for seven years, including four when Greens led Brighton and Hove City Council. He said: “I’m thrilled to have been selected to stand for Parliament for the Green Party in Hove. All over Europe we’re witnessing very strong results by Green Party candidates as the abject failure of mainstream political parties to tackle the big issues of our time has become crystal clear. Evidence of environmental decline and the effects of climate change are in the news almost every day. Greens have positive answers to the big questions facing us and our country and I hope our message will resonate with the residents of Hove. “I’m proud of the role that Greens have played in the city; leading on the campaign against single-use plastics, taking urgent action on the homelessness crisis and holding the Labour council to account. As parliamentary candidate for Hove I would look to highlight the difference a second Green MP would make for our city.” And Green Party councillor Alex Phillips, who will become the city’s youngest ever mayor if re-elected as a councillor next May, has been selected as the Green candidate for Brighton Kemptown,: She said: “Having lived at the bottom of Whitehawk for over five years, across the road from where my husband has worked for the last decade, and especially since giving birth to my baby Rafi last year, I feel more and more embedded in my local community. “Brighton Kemptown is quite a mixed constituency and the demographics vary enormously from the deprivation that exists in neglected parts of our city like Whitehawk to the grandeur of Roedean. As an experienced local councillor I am well positioned to fight for campaigns that matter to everyone in the constituency: from the NHS services including the hospital, as well as opposing austerity to the human rights and environmental legislation which we will lose next year through Brexit. “I’ve lived in Brussels and speak French and German and I know the huge benefit that EU nationals have had on our city. A European city like Brighton and Hove needs proud European representatives. Caroline Lucas has been essential to the movement against a hard Brexit and we’re ambitious about sending other Greens to join her in Westminster.”