Side by side
The Green Party of England and Wales and The Liberal Democrats across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
Green
Expand safe routes; end hotel accommodation; oppose deterrence
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Opposes deterrence-based policy outright, favouring expanded safe and legal routes and an end to hotel-based asylum accommodation.
Lib Dems
Safe and legal routes, and faster decisions
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Emphasises safe and legal routes and faster decision-making, arguing deterrence-first policy has repeatedly failed to reduce crossings.
Tax & the economy
Green
Wealth tax on assets over £10m; £15 minimum wage
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A wealth tax of 1% a year on individual assets above £10m and 2% above £1bn, which the party says would raise £15bn a year. Alongside it, a £15 minimum wage and a four-day working week.
Economists dispute wealth-tax yields of this size, pointing to valuation difficulty and behavioural response; the party treats the figure as its own costing.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryLib Dems
£9.4bn for care and the NHS from bank and capital gains taxes
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A £9.4bn package for social care and the NHS, funded by higher taxes on banks and tighter capital gains rules for the very wealthy.
Check itLib Dem social care proposals examined — The ConversationNHS & social care
Green
More health spending; opposes private provision in the NHS
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Increased health spending forms part of the capital programme, with the party opposing private provision within the NHS.
Less detailed than its economic and environmental platform.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryLib Dems
Free personal care for everyone who needs it
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Free personal care for everyone who needs it, costed at £2.7bn a year by 2028–29 and funded by reversing tax cuts given to the large banks since 2016 — so that nobody has to sell their home to pay for personal care. Alongside it a Carer's Minimum Wage set £2 above the minimum wage, a Royal College of Care Workers, and Carer's Allowance raised by £20 a week with eligibility extended to anyone earning under £183 a week.
Analysts have welcomed the seriousness of the reform while questioning whether the funding stream covers the long-run cost.
Check itEd Davey launches plan for free personal care — Liberal DemocratsHousing
Green
Social housing funded from the capital programme
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Social housing is funded from the same £90bn capital programme, alongside health and education — the party's answer to supply being public building rather than planning liberalisation.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryLib Dems
Council-led building; empty homes back into use
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Expanding council-led housebuilding, bringing empty homes back into use, and requiring developers to deliver the affordable homes they have been permitted to build.
Crime & justice
Green
Presumption against short sentences; divert rather than jail
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A presumption against custodial sentences under two years, with investment redirected to courts, diversion schemes and violence-reduction units rather than prison places. The party would restore youth services and community policing, repeal the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and the Public Order Act, abolish the Prevent programme, and decriminalise sex work.
Lib Dems
Restore community policing; scrap Police and Crime Commissioners
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Restoring community policing, and scrapping Police and Crime Commissioners in favour of local Police Boards made up of councillors and local representatives, with the savings put into frontline policing. Recent party papers also defend trial by jury against proposals to restrict it.
Check itStronger Communities, Safer Citizens — Liberal DemocratsEnergy & net zero
Green
£90bn a year capital spending; water, rail and energy in public hands
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Capital spending raised by £90bn a year by 2030, of which more than £70bn goes to the green transition. Water, rail and energy companies would be taken into public ownership.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryLib Dems
End sewage discharges by water companies
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Ending sewage discharges by water companies has been the party's most prominent environmental campaign.
Education
Green
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Lib Dems
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Defence & foreign policy
Green
Cancel Trident and begin disarming, while staying in NATO
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Immediately begin dismantling Britain's nuclear weapons, cancelling Trident and banning nuclear-armed ships from UK waters, while continuing to recognise NATO's role in European security.
The combination of remaining in NATO while unilaterally disarming is the most contested element of the platform, since the alliance's strategic concept is explicitly nuclear.
Check itThe Green Party's defence plan — British BriefLib Dems
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Europe & the constitution
Green
Rejoin the European Union
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Rejoining the European Union is party policy.
Check itPolanski outlines Green economic policy — AOL / PALib Dems
Repair the relationship with Europe; a new Magna Carta
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The most consistently pro-European of the six: repairing what Davey calls Britain's "broken relationship" with Europe, tearing down trade barriers and fixing the "botched" Brexit deal. Domestically he has called for "a new Magna Carta" to constrain executive power.
Media & culture
Green
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Lib Dems
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
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