This comes as the Institute for Fiscal Studies described the party’s policies as ‘wholly unattainable’.
The Green Party has defended its pledge to raise taxes and said it is the only party being honest with the public during the General Election campaign.
“And so the Green Party is the only party being honest in this election, that says, actually, by European standards, we can make fairly modest changes to the tax system, asking those with the broadest shoulders to pay modestly more.” “So, a tax for example, on high polluting imports of goods, that undermine British manufacturing, we want to support low carbon British manufacturing.”
He added: “The share of the economy that goes into tax at the moment is near the bottom of the European league table. When questioned on this, Mr Ramsay said: “The reason for that is that at the moment there are growing numbers of people who are risking their lives fleeing their country because of war or persecution or poverty or climate change, and we need to address the root causes of that, that’s got to be the starting point.”
Mr Ramsay told the BBC that the Green Party had learned from the situation which saw a male rapist, who said they identified as a woman called Isla, sent to a women’s prison in Scotland.
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