Green party launches election manifesto with ‘honest’ tax proposal
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6NFFQ)
Leaders outline ideas including wealth levy, rent controls, house-building, and water and energy firm nationalisation
The Greens have launched their election manifesto with an appeal to voters to help them into parliament as a challenge to what they termed the unambitious, more of the same" policies of Labour.
Setting out their plans in Brighton and Hove, the location of one of the party's key target seats, the co-leaders, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, said their proposals for higher taxes - mainly on wealthier people - were the only realistic way to improve public services and undertake vital environmental policies.
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