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Green Party
£6.7m lifetime declared

Economy & Tax

2024 MANIFESTO

The Green Party's 2024 "Real Hope, Real Change" manifesto committed to a wealth tax of 1 per cent on individual assets over £10 million and 2 per cent on assets over £1 billion, alongside reform of capital gains tax to align with income tax rates and a bank levy. The combined personal tax package was estimated to raise between £50 billion and £70 billion per year by the end of the parliament. The manifesto framed the economy as requiring a £40 billion per year public investment programme funded by the wealth measures.

SHIFT SINCE 2024

Under Zack Polanski, elected leader on 2 September 2025 with 85 per cent of the vote, the wealth tax has moved from one revenue measure among many to the central party frame. Polanski's "eco populism" links the cost of living, housing affordability and climate transition through a single political argument that the rich are not paying for the changes the country needs. Party membership has grown from roughly 70,000 in September 2025 to over 220,000 by mid 2026, a threefold increase tied to the leadership shift.

NHS & Health

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto pledged £50 billion over the parliament for NHS and social care, including £20 billion of capital investment in hospital building and repair, free personal care, guaranteed NHS dentist access for everyone, and the ending of all internal market and private provider contracts in the English NHS. The programme was the most extensive NHS funding pledge of any 2024 manifesto.

Immigration & Asylum

2024 MANIFESTO

The Green Party manifesto opposed the entirety of the hostile environment framework, pledged to scrap the Rwanda scheme, give asylum seekers the right to work three months after applying, expand safe and legal routes, and end indefinite immigration detention. The manifesto set no numerical net migration target and rejected the framing of immigration as a problem to be reduced.

Education

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto pledged to scrap university tuition fees, restore maintenance grants, and provide an additional £8 billion to schools to reverse a decade of real terms cuts. The programme included ending SATs and the inspection regime in its current form, expanding mental health support in every school, and full state funding of further education colleges.

Climate & Energy

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto committed to the most ambitious decarbonisation programme of any 2024 manifesto: 70 per cent of UK electricity from wind by 2030, a ban on all new fossil fuel projects including cancellation of the Rosebank licence, £40 billion per year of public investment in just transition, and a carbon tax escalator. The Greens were the only party to oppose every new oil and gas licence and to commit to no new road building.

Housing

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto pledged 150,000 new social rented homes per year, rent controls in areas of high need, an end to Section 21 no fault evictions, abolition of Right to Buy, and a Right to Housing as a legal entitlement. The pitch was the most explicitly social housing led of any 2024 manifesto.

Welfare & Work

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto pledged to trial Universal Basic Income at a level sufficient to abolish poverty, scrap the two child benefit cap, raise the carer's allowance, and introduce a £15 per hour minimum wage. The framing was redistribution rather than means testing: the manifesto did not accept the premise that working age welfare should be tightened.

SHIFT SINCE 2024

Polanski has made redistribution the leading frame of the party's domestic offer, linking wealth tax revenue directly to public service investment in his public messaging. The two child cap scrap has since been adopted by Labour at the November 2025 Budget, removing one of the manifesto's specific differentiators while the broader redistribution argument remains distinctive.

Crime & Justice

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto proposed shifting funding from policing toward mental health, youth and community services, ending the use of prison for non violent drug offences, decriminalising drug possession for personal use, and abolishing private prisons. The Greens were alone among 2024 parties in pledging substantive decarceration.

Defence & Foreign Policy

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto pledged immediate recognition of the State of Palestine, an end to all arms sales to Israel, cancellation of the Trident nuclear replacement, and restoration of overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income. The Greens supported continued NATO membership while criticising NATO expansion.

SHIFT SINCE 2024

Under Polanski the party has hardened its framing from "ceasefire" to explicitly naming "genocide in Gaza", and has placed enforcement of an arms embargo at the centre of its parliamentary advocacy. The arms to Israel position is now the most consistent Polanski talking point alongside the wealth tax.

Europe

2024 MANIFESTO

The Green Party manifesto committed to immediate rebuilding of close EU ties, accession to the customs union and single market as a near term step, and EU membership as the long term objective. The position was the second most explicitly pro EU 2024 manifesto after the Liberal Democrats.

Constitution & Devolution

2024 MANIFESTO

The manifesto committed to proportional representation by single transferable vote, voting age 16, abolition of the House of Lords and replacement with a federal elected second chamber, and a written constitution. The programme also pledged the right to a Scottish independence referendum if the Scottish Parliament called for one, and substantive devolution to English regions.