The Green Party of England and Wales

All six parties are asked the same questions in the same order, so their answers can be read against each other. Positions are the party’s own; anything in the grey line beneath is our note on where a policy is contested or short on detail.

1. 01

   Immigration & asylum

   Who gets to come here, who gets to stay, and what happens to people who arrive without permission.

   Opposes deterrence-based policy outright, favouring expanded safe and legal routes and an end to hotel-based asylum accommodation.

2. 02

   Tax & the economy

   Who pays what, and what the state can afford as a result.

   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.

3. 03

   NHS & social care

   How healthcare and care for older and disabled people are funded and delivered.

   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.

4. 04

   Housing

   Whether enough homes get built, who builds them, and who can afford one.

   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.

5. 05

   Crime & justice

   Policing, sentencing and prisons — how much punishment, and how much prevention.

   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.

6. 06

   Energy & net zero

   How fast Britain cuts carbon emissions, what it costs, and who bears the cost.

   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.

7. 07

   Education

   Schools, universities and skills — funding, standards and who pays for what.

   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.

8. 08

   Defence & foreign policy

   Military spending, NATO, the nuclear deterrent and Britain's alliances.

   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.

9. 09

   Europe & the constitution

   The relationship with the EU, membership of international courts, and how power is distributed within the UK.

   Rejoining the European Union is party policy.

10. 10

    Media & culture

    The BBC, broadcasting, and contested questions of national identity and religious practice.

    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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