Greens call for Big Five energy companies to be brought into public ownership to stabilise market and protect consumers
17 August 2022
- Green Party set out plan to restore the energy price cap to rate of October 2021
- Intervention would reduce the cost to the average household by more than £2,000
- Carla Denyer: “This experiment with the energy market has failed. Only the government can intervene at the scale required to avoid...Read More »
Greens call for action on water companies as England faces heat health-alert and drought
9 August 2022
The Green Party has called for a series of measures to help stop three billion litres of water being wasted each day as a heat health-alert comes into force and England faces its worst drought in decades, with many households facing hosepipe bans and water shortages.
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Greens call for immediate financial support for most vulnerable following interest rate rise
4 August 2022
Responding to the news that the Bank of England has raised interest rates to 1.75%, the biggest rise in 27 years, Green Party peer Natalie Bennett said:
“Today’s report from the Bank of England is devastating and paints a picture of our economy caught between the...Read More »
Replace ‘scraps’ with proper transport funding across the regions, say Greens
4 August 2022
Greens have accused the government of providing ‘scraps’ for transport funding across English regions compared to London and the South East. They point to the announcement of just £200 million to develop a mass transit network in West Yorkshire [1] compared to the £18.8 billion spent...Read More »
BP profits and fear of energy bills: Greens call for ‘super tax on dirty profits’
2 August 2022
Commenting on almost £7bn profits by BP between April and June [1], while one in eight UK households fear they have no further way to make cuts to afford a sharp increase in annual energy bills this autumn [2], Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said:
“These...Read More »