The Green Party will be launching its manifesto in Brighton shortly.
It’s where Caroline Lucas served as the party’s only Westminster MP.
Our political correspondent Gurpreet Narwan is there for us ahead of the launch at around 11am, and says the imminent policy document has “been billed as a big plan to invest in ‘broken Britain'”.
It will plough money into public services by “redesigning the tax system”, going after the richest in society.
Gurpreet says: “The thrust of it is a new tax on multimillionaires and billionaires, starting at 1% on those with assets over £10m.
“It also wants to equalise tax on wealth with tax on income by raising capital gains tax on the sale of stocks and shares and investment properties so they are in line with the tax people pay on wages.”
But the Greens are also planning “a big raid on wage earners”, inculding raising national insurance on those earning over £50,000.
Gurpreet notes this would include one in four teachers.
The party argues it’s the only one “being honest with the electorate” about what’s required to fund public services.
Labour and the Tories aren’t being straight with voters, it says.
After impressive results in the local elections last month, Gurpreet says the party’s eyeing up four seats at Westminster.
It’s become “something of a refuge” for rural Tory voters but also those from the left of Labour who have become disillusioned with Keir Starmer, making for an “interesting mix” of support.
