Green Party Manifesto – A Confident and Caring Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/22/green-party-plan-caring-britain-manifesto-launch

Caroline Lucas speaking to the Guardian said “The Green Guarantee is about hope, and we need hope now like never before,” “I can’t remember a time in my life where the future has felt more uncertain, with Brexit, with accelerated climate change, with an NHS in crisis.”

Among plans in the manifesto is to pilot a universal basic income – a subsistence minimum income received by all – and to phase in a four-day week, with a maximum of 35 hours in work.

As well as strong environmental protections and moves to create greener transport, the party proposes ending private companies working in the NHS, taking railways into public ownership, scrapping university tuition fees and writing off existing student debt.

The extra public spending would be paid for by measures including a tax on the top 1% of earners, levies on financial transactions, and changes to corporation and inheritance tax.