The Green Party of England and Wales
The Greens had just one MP in the last Commons, their former co-leader, Caroline Lucas, but will be running candidates in 500 constituencies this time round.
The party is now jointly led by Jonathan Bartley, once famous as a jazz musician, and Sian Berry. Neither has ever been elected to Parliament before. Its main focus has always been the environment but its taken a strong anti Brexit stance and has made election pledges on all main issues.
There are separate Green parties in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Greens in England and Wales chose the slogan "If Not Now, When?" for the manifesto launch which took place on Nov. 19.
- Brexit: the Greens want a second referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU and would back a vote to remain.
- Health: the NHS would get an extra £6 billion a year until 2030. The party also promises to focus funding on building new community health centres and ensure mental health is treated with the same urgency as physical health.
- Education: tuition fees would go under a Green government while student debt would be cancelled for all those who paid £9,000 a term to go to university.
- Childcare: all children aged 9 months or older would be entitled to 35 hours a week free childcare.
- Housing: the Greens want to create 100,000 energy efficient council homes every year and improve heating and insulation in all new and renovated properties.
- Environment: the party promises to stamp out all greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by 2030, ban all single use plastic in packaging and bring in a tax on meat and milk to limit dairy farming and cut methane emissions.
- Social Care: the manifesto promises local councils would share £4.5 billion a year to help provide support to over 65s in their own homes.
- Crime: the Greens aim to halve the prison population and focus on preventative measures. They want to replace short term prison sentences with a restorative justice system.
- Personal Finance: the Greens would bring in a Universal Basic Income of £89 a week for all adults with more for pensioners, single parents and people living with disabilities.
- Economy: the manifesto pledges millions of new jobs in areas including renewable energy and land management as part of a "Green New Deal". They also promise to remove fossil fuels from the economy and measure success on wellbeing as well as economic factors.
- Transport: the party wants to spend £2.5 billion every year on new cycle ways and cut train and bus fares to make public transport cheaper than car travel. It would also ban adverts for flights.
- Immigration: the Greens pledge to end indefinite detention, close detention centres and change immigration rules so there is no minimum income criteria for people moving to the UK.
The Green Party manifesto is available on their website and the party has also made it available there in an easy read version as well as in an audio format.