/ an economy that works for everyone / protecting our environment 
/ membership of the eu / our nhs and public services / education for all 
/ our promise to young people / a place to call home / a safer world/ a citizens' democracy / a people's transport system 

our 
guarantee 

to you 


The Green Party has big, bold ideas to 
create a confident and caring Britain that 
we can all be proud of. We aren't afraid 
to hope for a better future or to be honest 
about how we get there. We believe in 
being brave, in speaking our minds, and 
in standing up for what matters. We are 
proud to do politics differently. 

Imagine a government that trusts in our 
common humanity and our capacity to 
govern ourselves. Imagine a government 
that believes that the best way forward 
is by working with each other, rather 
than against each other. Imagine a 
government that prioritises the rights of 
citizens and the environment over those 
of corporations. Imagine a government 
that gives everyone a chance and leaves 
nobody behind in a confident and caring 

This is what Green MPs promise to do for 
you and the people and places that you 
love. 

• 
We will campaign for your right to 
vote on the final terms of the Brexit 
deal, including an option to stay in 
the EU. 
• 
We will push for genuinely affordable, 
warm homes for everyone and a 
public health system free for all. 
• 
We will fight for equality, and for a 
society where nobody is left behind. 
• 
We will always act strongly on 
climate change and to protect the 
natural world we love. 
Britain. That's the kind of government we We will stand up for what matters. 
would work for. This is our Green Guarantee to you. 


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contents 


4 / A green ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE 


6 / PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT 


8 / MEMBERSHIP OF THE EU 


10 / OUR NHS AND PUBLIC SERVICES 


12 / EDUCATION FOR ALL 


14 / OUR PROMISE TO YOUNG PEOPle 


16 / A PLACE TO CALL HOME 


18 / A SAFER WORLD 


20 / A CITIZENS' DEMOCRACY 


22 / A PEOPLE'S TRANSPORT sYSTEM 



A greenECONOMY 
THAT WORKS 
FOR EVERYONE 


The Green Party believes that our 
economy should be innovative, 
collaborative, forward facing and for 
the benefit of communities and the 
environment. 

The economy is all of us: our work, our 
creativity, what we buy, how we spend 
our time. It should allow us to lead happy 
and fulfilled lives. A Green economy 
would replace the exploitation of people 
and resources with decent, meaningful 
work. It would create over 1 million 
jobs through our programme of green 
investment and restoring the public 
sector. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
Take steps towards the introduction 
of a universal basic income, including 
a government sponsored pilot 
scheme, as a means to increase 
security and avoid the poverty trap. 
&bull; 
Phase in a 4 day working week (a 
maximum of 35 hours) and abolish 
exploitative zero hours contracts. 
&bull; 
Reduce the gap between the highest 
and lowest paid, and increase the 
minimum wage to reach a genuine 
living wage of &pound;10 an hour by 2020. 
&bull; 
End the gender pay gap, and require 
a minimum 40% of all members of 
public company and public sector 
boards to be women. 
&bull; 
Use the government-owned Royal 
Bank of Scotland to create a network 
of local people's banks for every city 
and region, obliged to lend locally 
and provide cheap basic banking 
services. 
&bull; 
Ensure that everyone pays their 
fair share of tax and there is a 
crackdown on tax dodging. 
&bull; 
Reform taxation to include a wealth 
tax on the top 1% of earners, 
investing in more staff at HMRC 
so they can work more effectively, 
and reinstate the higher level of 
corporation tax for large businesses. 
&bull; 
A Robin Hood tax on high value 
transactions in the finance sector, 
and inheritance taxed according to 
the wealth of the recipient. 
&bull; 
A phased in abolition of the cap on 
employees' national insurance so 
that the wealthiest pay more. 
&bull; 
Support and promote small 
businesses, co-operatives and 
mutuals, and the roll out of high 
speed broadband. 
&bull; 
Support start-ups and creative 
enterprises through community credit 
and green investment, to provide 
opportunities for young people to be 
creative and innovative. 
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PROTECTING 
OUR 
ENVIRONMENT 


You can trust the Green Party to put the 
environment at the heart of everything 
we do. 

Our economic prosperity depends on 
the health of our environment. It is the 
ultimate source of everything we make 
and use - from food and materials, to the 
air we breathe. The Green Party would 
set an inspiring vision for the natural 
world, both on land and at sea, with 
thriving species, healthy habitats, and 
ensuring the environment is top of the 
political agenda. 

A thriving environment means a healthy 
future for you, your children and 
generations to come. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
An Environmental Protection Act 
to safeguard and restore our 
environment, protect and enhance 
biodiversity, promote sustainable 
food and farming, and ensure animal 
protection. 
&bull; 
A public works programme of 
insulation to make every home warm 
and investing in flood defences and 
natural flood management to make 
every community safer. 
&bull; 
Equality of access to nature and 
green spaces, to enhance leisure, 
health and wellbeing. 
&bull; 
Active ongoing cooperation with 
businesses and other countries to 
limit global temperature increases to 
well below 2 degrees and aiming for 
1.5 degrees. 
&bull; 
Replacing fracking, coal power 
stations, subsidies to fossil fuels and 
nuclear with the clean green efficient 
renewable energy of the future, 
and investing in community owned 
energy. 
&bull; 
Introduce a one-off fine on car 
manufacturers who cheated the 
emissions testing regime and create 
a new Clean Air Act, expanding and 
funding a mandatory clean air zone 
network. 
&bull; 
Strong protection for the Green Belt, 
National Parks, SSSIs and Areas of 
Outstanding Natural Beauty. 
&bull; 
A wider, more effective network of 
marine protected areas around our 
coasts, including fully protected no 
take zones. 
&bull; 
Tough action to reduce plastic 
and other waste, including the 
introduction of Deposit Return 
Schemes, with a zero waste target. 
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MEMBERSHIP 
OF THE EU 


The Green Party supported the Remain 
campaign and continue to believe that 
membership of the EU makes our future 
more hopeful and secure. 

We will demand that the terms of the 
final deal are closely scrutinised. We do 
not accept that either a "hard" Brexit 
or an exit from the EU without a deal 
is in the interests of the British people. 
We will be actively campaigning to 
safeguard jobs, uphold basic rights and 
put environmental protection at the heart 
of any future trade deals. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
A referendum on the detail of 
whatever deal is negotiated for 
Britain's departure from the EU, with 
the option to reject the deal and 
remain in the EU. 
&bull; 
Protect freedom of movement, press 
for remaining within the single 
market, and safeguard vital rights for 
people and the environment. 
&bull; 
Immediately guarantee the rights 
of EU citizens to remain in the 
UK and urgently seek reciprocal 
arrangements for UK citizens in the 
EU. 
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OUR NHS 
AND 
PUBLIC SERVICES 


We pay for public services, we use them, 
we own them. It's time they belonged to 
all of us. 

From our hospitals to our railways and 
schools, the Green Party will campaign 
for public services that are run by the 
people for the people. These services 
will be properly resourced and future-
facing to meet your needs now and in the 
future, not struggling to keep pace with 
demand. We will stand up for the NHS - 
we want it to be protected not privatised. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
Roll back privatisation of the NHS 
to ensure that all health and dental 
services are always publicly provided 
and funded, and free at the point of 
access, via the introduction of an 
NHS Reinstatement Act. Scrap NHS 
Sustainability and Transformation 
Plans. 
&bull; 
Bring mental health care in line 
with physical health care and 
ensure people experiencing mental 
health crises are supported close to 
their home and support networks. 
Introduce mental health awareness 
training within the public sector and 
encourage a more open dialogue on 
the issue in wider society. 
&bull; 
Close the NHS spending gap and 
provide an immediate cash injection, 
to ensure everyone can access a GP, 
hospitals can run properly, and staff 
are fairly paid. 

&bull; 
Major investment in social care for 
the elderly and all those who need it. 
&bull; 
Bring energy, water, railways, 
buses, the Royal Mail and care work 
back into public ownership to give 
communities real control of the 
public services that has been lost 
over the past 30 years. 
&bull; 
Increase funding for local authorities 
so they can provide good quality 
public services and invest in our 
communities, creating thousands of 
jobs. A single budget covering health 
and social services, to make life 
easier for people who need to access 
several types of service. 
&bull; 
We will review the effectiveness of 
how public services are structured, 
sensitive to the needs of all people, 
including assessment of how care is 
provided at the transition age of 18. 
&bull; 
Redress pension injustice, with a 
pensions system for everyone and 
action to enable older people to 
continue to be active members of 
society. 
&bull; 
Redress benefits injustice with a 
social security system that gives 
everyone confidence they will get 
support when they need it, including 
disabled people. 
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EDUCATION 
FOR ALL 


Education transforms lives. The Green &bull; 
Address the crisis of teacher 
Party believes that education is a right, workload, with measures such as 
and should therefore be available to abolishing Ofsted, and reforming the 
people of all ages. curriculum so that it is 
pupil-centred, freeing up teachers to 
We stand firmly alongside teachers, teach. 
parents, and young people in calling for 
the end of privatisation in education. &bull; 
Ensuring that every child with Special 
We should trust our teachers to teach, Educational Needs or Disability has 
instead of burdening them and our access to a mainstream education, in 
children with endless and stressful accordance with the UN Convention 
exams and inspections. for Persons with Disabilities. 
Our policies: 
&bull; 
Properly fund our schools so real 
term spending per pupil increases 
and is protected. 
&bull; 
Bring Academies and Free Schools 
into the local authority system, 
abolish SATS and reduce class sizes. 
&bull; 
Scrap university tuition fees, fund 
full student grants and greater public 
investment in further and higher 
education. 
&bull; 
Restore Education Maintenance 
Allowance and enable 
apprenticeships to all qualified young 
people aged 16-25. 
&bull; 
Free universal early education and 
childcare for all children, with formal 
education starting at age 7. 

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OUR 
PROMISE TO 
YOUNG PEOPLE 


We want to build a better, more positive 
future for everyone and in particular for 
young people. We want that future to 
be safer, happier, more equal and more 
secure. 

Our promise to young people, written by 
young people, is that we will invest in 
education and opportunities, alongside 
lowering the voting age, protecting the 
environment, tackling the housing crisis 
and building a strong economy. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
Protect young people's housing 
needs by reinstating housing benefit 
for under-21s, stop Local Authorities 
declaring young people "intentionally 
homeless", and invest in community 
house-building projects to provide 
affordable, secure housing options 
for young people. 
&bull; 
Create a fairer working world for 
young people by scrapping age-
related wage bands and raising the 
national minimum wage to living 
wage levels for all. 
&bull; 
Protect opportunities for young 
people in work and education by 
relieving students of the burden 
of debt, scrapping tuition fees and 
restoring living grants. Guarantee the 
rights of young people to study, work, 
live and travel in the EU, including 
through schemes like Erasmus. 
&bull; 
Reject the xenophobic Prevent 
strategy and pursue community-led 
collaborative approaches to tackling 
all forms of extremism instead. 
&bull; 
Improve young people's access 
to basic but vital health needs, by 
providing more funding for sexual 
health awareness campaigns, 
providing greater access to free 
condoms and sexual health clinics; 
removing VAT from sanitary products 
and ensuring that they are provided 
free of charge to those in extreme 
financial need. 
&bull; 
Enable every young person to take an 
active role in democracy, introducing 
non-biased political education and 
promoting active citizenship, as well 
as lowering the voting age to 16. 
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A 
PLACE TO 
CALL HOME 


We should all have a safe, affordable, 
secure and warm place to call home. The 
Green Party will tackle the causes of the 
housing crisis: giving renters a fair deal, 
making social housing widely available 
and bringing the housing market under 
control. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
A living rent for all through rent 
controls and more secure tenancies 
for private renters, an end to 
letting fees and the introduction of 
mandatory licensing for all landlords. 
&bull; 
Giving tenants a voice by supporting 
the development of renters' unions. 
&bull; 
A major programme to build 
affordable, zero carbon homes, 
including 100,000 social rented 
homes each year by 2022. 
&bull; 
End mass council house sales and 
scrap Right to Buy at discounted 
prices. 
&bull; 
Abolish the cruel and unfair bedroom 
tax. 
&bull; 
Action on empty homes to bring them 
back into use and a trial of a Land 
Value Tax to encourage the use of 
vacant land and reduce speculation. 
&bull; 
Protect young people's housing 
needs by reinstating housing benefit 
for under 21s and reverse housing 
benefits cuts. 
&bull; 
Stop declaring people as 
&bquo;intentionally homeless&equo; and give 
Local Authorities the same duties 
towards single people and childless 
couples as to families. 
&bull; 
Help first-time buyers by aiming 
for house price stability - axing 
buy-to-let tax breaks, and backing 
community-led approaches to 
building affordable homes. 
&bull; 
Significantly improve housing choice 
for D/deaf, disabled and older 
people by requiring all councils to 
appropriately plan for their housing 
needs and significantly increase the 
numbers of homes built to lifetime 
home and mobility standards over 
the next 5 years. 
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A 
SAFER 
WORLD 


The Green Party will work for a caring 
and confident Britain that uses its 
influence wisely, to build peace and 
protect the environment, and to offer 
sanctuary to those at risk. 

We would co-operate with our 
neighbours on the shared challenges that 
face us all - from tackling terrorism and 
preventing climate change, to reducing 
inequality. We would work towards an 
outward-facing Britain that has the 
confidence and resilience to welcome 
others. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
Cancel Trident replacement, saving 
at least &pound;110 billion over the next 30 
years. 
&bull; 
A humane immigration and asylum 
system that recognises and takes 
responsibility for Britain's ongoing 
role in causing the flow of migrants 
worldwide. 
&bull; 
Implement a UK-wide strategy 
to tackle gender based violence, 
including domestic violence, 
rape and sexual abuse, FGM and 
trafficking. 
&bull; 
An ethical foreign policy that builds 
capacity for conflict resolution, and 
ends support for aggressive wars of 
intervention. No more arms sales to 
oppressive regimes. 
&bull; 
Trade rules that respect human 
rights, labour standards, 
environmental standards and climate 
commitments with mechanisms for 
individuals, groups and communities 
to bring grievances. 
&bull; 
Strengthen the global deal on climate 
change, including by delivering 
climate justice and promoting 
ecologically sustainable development 
so that poorer countries can cope 
with the impacts of climate change. 
&bull; 
Increase the overseas aid budget 
from 0.7% of GDP to 1.0% of GDP. 
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A 
CITIZENS' 
DEMOCRACY 


The Green Party believes that politics 
should be done by people - not to them. 

We want everyone to have a voice, 
not just those who have the loudest 
voices, the deepest pockets or the most 
powerful friends. We will work for a 
fair voting system in which every vote 
counts and to make sure that decisions 
made nationally and locally are based 
upon genuine consultation, negotiation 
and accountability. We believe fairness 
matters online and in the media too. We 
think the internet should be free of state 
and corporate surveillance, with our 
rights and freedoms protected. 

Our policies: 

&bull; 
Introduce proportional representation 
(PR) for parliamentary and local 
elections, and votes at 16. 
&bull; 
Increase diversity in representative 
politics, with job-shares, a 50/50 
Parliament, and replacing the House 
of Lords with an elected second 
chamber. 
&bull; 
Defend the Human Rights Act and 
UK membership of the European 
Convention on Human Rights, and 
reinstate funding for the Equality and 
Human Rights Commission. 
&bull; 
Action to tackle racism and 
discrimination on the basis of faith or 
disability, real equality for LGBTIQA+ 
people, equal rights for mixed gender 
couples to have a Civil Partnership. 
&bull; 
Give power to local communities 
by allowing for 40% of the local 
electorate to secure a referendum 
on local government decisions or to 
recall their MP. 
&bull; 
End the sale of personal data, 
such as health or tax records, for 
commercial or other ends. 
&bull; 
Protect the BBC and tighten the rules 
on media ownership so no individual 
or company owns more than 20% of 
a media market, protecting against 
anyone having too much influence or 
undermining democracy. 
&bull; 
Give Parliament a vote on any new 
trade deals. 
&bull; 
Revive the role of democratic trade 
unions. 
&bull; 
Enable every young person to take an 
active role in democracy, introducing 
non-biased political education and 
promoting active citizenship. 
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A PEOPLE'S 
TRANSPORT 
SYSTEM 


The Green Party will work to increase &bull; 
Invest in low traffic neighbourhoods 
public investment in the railways, trams, and safe, convenient networks 
ferries and buses, as well as to make our of routes for walking and cycling, 
streets and roads safer for everyone. including safe places for learning to 
cycle, so people of all ages and those 
Clean, safe, accessible public transport with disabilities can choose to make 
and more walking and cycling could local trips on foot, by bike or mobility 
make us all healthier and happier. We scooter. 
need a public transport system that takes 
us where we need to go, affordably and &bull; 
Help end the public health crisis 
reliably. It should be easy to choose to caused by air pollution by increasing 
leave the car at home - or not have one incentives to take diesel vehicles off 
at all. the roads. 
Our policies: 
&bull; 
Return the railways to public 
ownership and re-regulate buses, 
investing in increased bus services 
especially in rural and other poorly 
served areas. 
&bull; 
All public transport should be fully 
accessible and step-free with 
a phase-in of free local public 
transport for young people, students, 
people with disabilities, and older 
people. 
&bull; 
Invest in regional rail links and 
electrification of existing rail lines, 
especially in the South West and 
North of England, rather than wasting 
money on HS2 and the national 
major roads programme. 
&bull; 
Cancel all airport expansion and end 
subsidies on airline fuel. 

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Final note: A number of policy areas discussed in this document are 
devolved to the Welsh Assembly. Where this applies, the policy 
set out here will only apply to England. 



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