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14 April 2015
  • Green Party policy breakdown

    10:39 AM
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    Increase public spending by 20 per cent (£177bn a year)

    Increase minimum wage to £10 an hour

    Introduce ‘wealth tax’ on top 1 per cent, “Robin Hood tax” on financial transactions to  fund free social care for over 65s

    Cut emission by 90 per cent by 2030

    Scrap tuition fees and increase school spending

    Renationalise railways

    Lower voting age to 16 and raise criminal responsibility from 10 to 14.

    £4 billion a year extending free local transport to all young people and students

    40% of all board members of public companies to be women

    Abolish the TV licence

    Increase the NHS administration budget by 9% and increase overall budget £12 billion partly funded by an increase in tobacco and alcohol taxes

    Improve hospital food and end mixed sex accommodation in hospitals

    By 2019 #GreenManifesto would make kids more helpful: they’ll go to park “promising to pick up some milk at the Post Office on the way back”

    — Martha Finlay (@MarthaFinlay) April 14, 2015

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14 April 2015