The Green Party would introduce a wealth tax of 1% on all assets over £10m increasing increasing to 2% on assets above £1bn and would use the tens of billions raised each year to mend broken Britain
Launching their manifesto today co leader Sian Berry said that “the time for half measures and empty promises is over”
It plans to boost health and social care spending by £50bn a year and pledged that anyone earning over £50,000 will pay more tax to fund the NHS, transport and the green economy
Co-leader of the Party Adrian Ramsay adds they will “guarantee an NHS dentist for everyone”
The party said it would make personal social care free at the point of use, like the NHS, bring mental health treatment up to the same standard as physical health and would say a “categorical no to privitisation in our health service”.
“Our manifesto lays out a bold but simple plan to bring our water companies, our railways and the big five retail energy companies into public ownership” said the party at its launch event
The party said it would raise National Insurance to 8 per cent for people earning over £50,000
The manifesto promises to restore “ailing” high streets, both rural and urban, by investing in small and medium-sized businesses and would spend £29bn over the next five years to insulate homes
They would build 150,000 new social homes every year by the end of the next parliament and end the Right to Buy scheme
