In light of the UK Government’s decision to reduce Overseas Development Assistance earlier this week, Georgia Taylor highlights how consumption in the UK harms the climate, the environmen...
“From the impacts of austerity that we see in potholed roads, closed libraries, inadequate social care provision, it is clear that tax is politics today.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett updat...
“It commits us as a council to leading by example: making sure that our own tax conduct is the best it can be.” Cllr David Francis explains why he has signed South Tyneside up to the Coun...
Sara Hall, Head of Movement and Partnerships at Tax Justice UK, explains why the UK’s current legislation to end global tax dodging does not go far enough.
“There were already six Labs in Wales by this point. What about my city? Where was Newport’s Lab?” Deputy Leader of Wales Green Party Lauren James describes the progress of the UBI pilot ...
“The report will include impacts on poverty and inequality, on capital allocation on the real economy, and the impact of money being moved offshore.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett explains a...
“If we are to control the virus and emerge with businesses and livelihoods still intact, it needs to be properly funded.” Ahead of the 2021 Budget, Green MP Caroline Lucas outlines the fi...
“Without a wealth tax we are only addressing the symptom – income inequality – rather than the cause.” Molly Scott Cato former MEP details her reasons for proposing Greens support a wealt...
Caroline Lucas MP and Green Peer Natalie Bennett are among those who urged further government action on the findings of the Dasgupta review on the economics of biodiversity.
Sara Hall, Head of Movement and Partnerships at Tax Justice UK, considers whether the country is ready for the tax and climate justice agendas to run smoothly alongside one another.
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In her essay, Green Party activist Shaka Lish considers how the pandemic has presented an opportunity to prioritise health, wellbeing and economic degrowth in order to recover from its im...
“Politicians they chose to defend their interests decided on their behalf that having enough income to spend on plastic junk in a shopping mall was sufficient compensation for the loss of...
"We must be absolutely clear-minded and resolute about unlocking the blind-alley argument peddled by both Tories and Labour that we cannot lock down without sacrificing the economy." Chri...
“The Green strategy for northern renewal must authentically empower the people of the north to drive policy and strategies for themselves. This is not mysticism – it is learning the lesso...
On the back of the UK Government ramping up plans to create freeports across the UK, Green Party member Andrew Bell highlights the risks posed to business, society and the planet if this ...
A new report from the Green House think tank has called for slowdown in the UK’s overseas trade to reduce its carbon impact, making policy recommendations for how the UK’s trade can becom...
“But a ‘no deal’ situation could see more companies go bust, more mass redundancies and much more hardship and poverty.” Amid the coronavirus crisis, it has been difficult to look too far...
Against the backdrop of a developing economic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new approach is called for. To address this, a Green Party motion calling on the UK Government to p...
