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Green Party manifesto pledges to nationalise water, railways and energy companies

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The Green Party has unveiled its election manifesto, sold as a plan to “mend broken Britain”.

Addressing the Greens’ launch event in Brighton and Hove, co-leader Carla Denyer said the manifesto contained measures to “offer real hope and real change”.

“Our manifesto is based on investing to mend broken Britain and offer real hope and real change”, she said, adding: “We can’t go on with an economy where  most people are working harder and yet getting poorer while inequality keeps growing.”

The Greens’ policies include introducing a new wealth tax of 1 per cent annually on assets above £10 million and 2 per cent on those above £2 billion, banning domestic flights for journeys which would take less than three hours by train, and moving to a four-day working week.

The party would also bring water companies, railways, and big five retail energy companies into public ownership; end immigration detention for all migrants unless they pose a danger to public safety; invest £50 billion in health and social care “to defend and restore the NHS”; scrap university tuition fees and increase the schools budget; and stop all new fossil fuel projects and cancel those recently licensed, like Rosebank in Scotland.

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Boost NHS salaries, guarantee access to NHS dentists, and give free personal care say Greens

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  • Green Party previews manifesto with extra spending on health and social care rising to over £50bn per year by 2030 
  • This sits alongside an additional £20bn capital investment to bring crumbling hospitals, primary care buildings and outdated equipment up to modern standards 
  • Greens will increase NHS frontline workers’ salaries including doctors, dentists and nurses 
  • “Cast-iron Green guarantee” promise that Green MPs will fight privatisation of the NHS 
Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay. Wikipedia CC.
Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay. Wikipedia CC.

Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay and the party’s Health and Social Care Spokesperson, Dr Pallavi Devulapalli, today announced a “game-changing” package for the NHS and social care totally £50 billion a year in investment by 2030 and an additional £20 billion in capital investment to improve crumbling buildings.

Ramsay said “Today’s announcement represents a game changing package that is more than any other political party is offering. It has been fully costed and could be fully delivered.”

Mr Ramsay, who described his personal experience in recent months supporting a family member both through hospitals and then into the care system, said that “many people” could see that the NHS was “stretched to breaking point” despite the “commitment of hard-working NHS staff”.

The Greens used the announcement to reveal a package of spending pledges alongside a “Green cast iron guarantee” that Green MPs would fight the privatisation of the NHS at every stage. The announcement included a commitment to :

  • Invest £20bn in a capital investment to bring our crumbling hospitals and old equipment up to standard.   
  • Invest £50 billion per year by 2030 into health and social care – more than any other major party – and would use the money to: 
  • Dramatically reduce waiting lists 
  • Offer everyone access to an NHS dentist 
  • Guarantee rapid access to a GP when there is urgent need and dramatically reduce waiting times for all
  • Ensure people needing mental health support can access relevant therapies within 28 days
  • Invest £5bn per year to boost NHS salaries and keep our wonderful nurses and doctors in the UK  
  • Invest £20 billion per year into adult social care to ensure dignity for those in need of care and take pressure off the NHS – including introducing free personal care.
  • Restore public health budgets with £1.5bn uplift in spending .

The large spending commitments they say is part of a fully costed manifesto due to be released on the 12th June in Brighton that includes commitments to “tax wealth fairly” by introducing a wealth tax of 1% on assets over £10 million and 2% over £1 billion.

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Green Party condemns ‘tough on immigration’ rhetoric

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Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay. Wikipedia CC.
Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsey

Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s comment “Read my lips – I will bring immigration numbers down” to the Sun on Sunday, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, said: 

“Keir Starmer is falling into the same trap that the Conservatives have.

“Stoking division and adopting the anti-migrant rhetoric of Nigel Farage and Natalie Elphicke instead of welcoming the important role people choosing to work in the UK play.   

“People coming to live and work in the UK play an invaluable role in our health and care sectors. 

“Those who peddle this divisive rhetoric ignore this and instead feed a false narrative that it’s migration, not a chronic underinvestment in public services, that are stopping you from getting a GP appointment, a hospital bed, or the surgery you need.   

“This is just not true”.    

He continued,    

“Greens in contrast reject this false divisive rhetoric.    

“We are offering real hope and real change at this election.    

“Only the Greens offer the investment in jobs, infrastructure and public services fit for the future to fix our broken frontline services.  

“Voters know that the Greens will never blame people from other countries for the years of underinvestment and economic mismanagement by the Conservative Government.” 

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