Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation
Successive governments have turned the UK from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back to people at a crushing cost, Zack Polanski will say.
In a speech billed as the Green leader’s biggest policy intervention since he took over as leader six months ago, Polanski will argue that decades of gradual economic rebalancing in favour of a minority who own assets has left much of the country vulnerable to economic shocks such as the current rise in fuel prices.
Polanski will call for the government to offer more support for households amid the uncertainty of the Iran conflict, asking for £8.4bn to be set aside to cover a possible increase in energy prices of £300 a household in the coming year.
A “sustained project of privatisation and deregulation has turned Britain from a place which made things people need into a place which made money for people who owned things”, he will say in a speech to the New Economics Forum thinktank in London.
