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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Green party launches election manifesto with ‘honest’ tax proposal

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay stand on the neatly mown cricket pitch with its grandstands in the background; a photographer, dressed in white, is standing behind them. Denyer wears a pale jacket over dark top and trousers and Ramsay wears a blue suit with the jacket open and an open-necked white shirt; they look casual and relaxed
Making their pitch: the Green party co-leaders, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, launch their manifesto at the Sussex country cricket ground in Hove. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

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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