2024 manifesto · published 12 June 2024

What did Green propose in 2024?

Larger public-service and investment plans funded through wealth, income and carbon taxes and additional borrowing. The proposed yields and the shrinking carbon-tax base were contested.

Evidence last reviewed 11 October 2026

The same seven issues and source fields are reviewed for all seven selected parties. This is a June 2024 Westminster-election baseline, not a statement of current policy or a forecast. Northern Ireland parties and later devolved-election manifestos are outside this comparison.

Seven issues, the same questions

These are summaries of proposals, not quotations or assessments of whether they were delivered. Open each issue for its mechanism, original estimates, timing and source.

Housing

Provide 150,000 new social homes a year and end the 'right to buy'; empower local authorities to introduce rent controls and end Section 21 no-fault evictions. A Fairer, Greener Homes Guarantee to insulate homes to EPC B standard or above.

Scope: England (devolved policy area); the manifesto says devolved bodies set their own agendas and Wales Green Party publishes its own manifesto (PDF p. 3).

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Increase council and housing association homes at social rents through new build and refurbishment, give councils and social landlords first option to buy certain properties, and empower councils to bring empty homes back into use. Councils could control rents where the local rental market is overheated; Private Residential Tenancy Boards would resolve disputes.
Published cost
Statistical Appendix: social housing capital spending of £2.2bn in the year to 31 March 2026, rising to £18.1bn in the year to 31 March 2030. Separately, £29bn over five years to insulate homes (£12bn social housing retrofit, £17bn grants for private homes).
Funding
Not stated for housing specifically; the Statistical Appendix funds the overall programme from tax rises and additional borrowing (PDF p. 25).
Timing
150,000 social-rent homes a year 'as soon as possible'; insulation spending is the first five years of a ten-year programme.
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not give a date by which 150,000 homes a year would be reached or a per-home cost.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 6-7 (printed pp. 7-9); costs PDF p. 25 (printed p. 45)

NHS

Additional NHS England spending of £8bn in the first full year rising to £28bn in 2030, plus £20bn capital over the parliament for hospital building and repair. Guaranteed rapid GP access, an NHS dentist for everybody, higher staff pay, and backing the NHS Reinstatement Bill.

Scope: England (the manifesto costs 'the NHS in England'; health is a devolved policy area).

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Clear long-term funding commitments to Hospital Trusts, an immediate one-off budget increase for fair wage settlements, primary care funding reaching £1.5bn by 2030, a new NHS dental contract, and restoring public health budgets with an immediate £1.5bn. The NHS Reinstatement Bill would end competition and restrict commercial companies.
Published cost
Additional annual expenditure of £8bn in the first full year of the parliament, rising to £28bn in 2030; capital of at least £20bn over five years. Dentistry reaching £3bn a year by 2030; £2bn primary care capital over five years.
Funding
Increased taxes on the super-rich (PDF p. 4); overall programme funded by tax rises and additional borrowing per the Statistical Appendix.
Timing
Revenue increase rises to £28bn in 2030; dentistry and primary care figures reached by 2030; capital over the next five years.
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not set a waiting-list target date, describing only a steady reduction in waiting lists.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 4 (printed pp. 2-3)

Tax and spending

A wealth tax of 1% a year on assets above £10 million and 2% above £1bn; tax capital gains and investment income at the same rates as earned income; remove the National Insurance Upper Earnings Limit. A carbon tax starting at £120 per tonne, and no rise in the basic rate of income tax.

Scope: UK-wide (the manifesto treats 'country' as the UK as a whole, PDF p. 3).

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Align CGT and investment income rates with income tax and NIC on employment income, limit pension tax relief to the basic rate, reform inheritance tax, re-evaluate Council Tax bands, raise the oil and gas windfall tax and add a bank windfall tax, and change VAT. Carbon tax rises to a maximum of £500 per tonne within ten years; borrowing to invest, with inflation as the 'overriding fiscal rule'.
Published cost
Personal tax reforms could raise £50bn to £70bn a year by the end of the parliament (2024 prices); business taxes up to £40bn over five years; carbon tax up to £80bn by the end of the parliament. Appendix: tax £36.7bn (2025-26) to £172.4bn (2029-30); revenue spending £99.2bn to £161.6bn; capital £22.8bn to £90.3bn.
Funding
Tax rises plus borrowing: the Statistical Appendix shows a deficit funded by additional debt of £85.3bn in 2025-26 and £79.5bn in 2029-30.
Timing
Appendix covers five years from 1 April 2025, as part of a 10-year programme; carbon tax reaches its maximum within ten years.
What remains unclear
IFS: it doubts the carbon tax could raise over £90 billion, since a tax that changes behaviour raises less, and expects lower yields once people respond to the tax rises.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 13 (printed pp. 20-21); appendix PDF p. 25 (printed p. 45)

IFS scrutiny of this programme

Work

A minimum wage of £15 an hour for all regardless of age, and full employment rights from day one. Repeal anti-union legislation introduced since 1979 and replace it with a Charter of Workers' Rights; equal rights for gig economy and zero-hours workers.

Scope: UK-wide (the manifesto does not state a narrower scope).

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Costs of the £15 minimum wage to small businesses offset by raising the Employment Allowance to £10,000; platform workers placed under a single legal status of 'worker'. A maximum 10:1 pay ratio, abolition of tribunal fees, funded enforcement, equal pay audits for large and medium firms, and support for moving towards a four-day week.
Published cost
No cost published in the manifesto
Funding
Not stated
Timing
Not stated
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not say when the £15 minimum wage would apply or how it would be phased in.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 11-12 (printed pp. 17-18)

Education

An £8bn investment in schools including £2bn for a teacher pay uplift, £2.5bn a year for school buildings (RAAC), and £5bn for SEND provision in mainstream schools. Scrap undergraduate tuition fees and restore maintenance grants; abolish Ofsted and high-stakes testing; charge VAT on private school fees.

Scope: England (devolved policy area); the manifesto states 'In Wales, Education is devolved to the Welsh Government.'

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Move academies and free schools into local authority control, remove charitable status from private schools and charge full VAT on fees (SEND places exempt), £3bn more for sixth-form education and £12bn for skills and further education, restore EMA, £1.4bn a year for Sure Start, and extend childcare to 35 hours a week from nine months.
Published cost
£8bn schools investment; £2.5bn a year for buildings; £5bn SEND; £3bn sixth form over the parliamentary term; £12bn skills and lifelong learning. Appendix: education revenue spending £13.9bn (2025-26) to £13.6bn (2029-30).
Funding
Not stated for education specifically; the Statistical Appendix funds the overall programme from tax rises and additional borrowing (PDF p. 25).
Timing
Sixth-form increase over the next parliamentary term; VAT on fees described as an interim measure; other timing not stated.
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not say whether the £8bn schools figure is annual or a total, or over what period.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 17-18 (printed pp. 29-30)

Energy

Wind to provide around 70% of UK electricity by 2030, with targets of 80GW offshore wind, 53GW onshore wind and 100GW solar by 2035. No new oil and gas licences, cancel recently issued licences such as Rosebank, end oil and gas subsidies, cease new nuclear, and bring the Big 5 retail energy companies into public ownership.

Scope: UK-wide; control of Crown Estate assets in Wales would be devolved to the Welsh Government.

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
A carbon tax on all fossil fuels, raised progressively over a decade; a higher contracts for difference strike price, ports equipped for floating offshore wind, an end to the de-facto ban on onshore wind, and solar panels mandated on new homes. Public investment would buy equity in utilities; the Crown Estate would come into public ownership.
Published cost
Green investment averaging £40bn a year over the parliament, including £50bn for electricity generation, transmission and storage and £30bn to nationalise water companies and the Big 5 retail energy companies. Appendix: green economic transformation capital £9.9bn (2025-26) to £72.6bn (2029-30).
Funding
Carbon tax to 'provide money to invest in the green transition', plus government borrowing to invest (PDF pp. 9-10).
Timing
70% wind by 2030; capacity targets by 2035; carbon tax rises over ten years; zero-carbon society more than a decade ahead of 2050.
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not give a specific target year for zero carbon or say how nationalised energy retailers would be valued beyond the £30bn combined figure.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 8-10 (printed pp. 10-14); appendix PDF p. 25 (printed p. 45)

Immigration

End the hostile environment and remove minimum income requirements from all visa applications, including spousal visas. Safe routes for people fleeing persecution, war or climate disaster, a fast and fair asylum process, and permission for asylum seekers to work while their application is decided.

Scope: UK-wide.

Mechanism, cost, funding and source
Mechanism
Replace the Home Office with a Department of Migration alongside a Department of Justice; end immigration detention unless a person is a danger to public safety; abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition and the ten-year route to settlement. Charge visa fees at cost, give migrants with visas free NHS access, let migrants including students bring family, and change care-worker visas so carers can change employer.
Published cost
No cost published in the manifesto
Funding
Not stated
Timing
Not stated
What remains unclear
The manifesto does not state a target level for net migration or say how visa numbers would be set.

Original manifesto · PDF p. 20-21 (printed pp. 35-36); care visas PDF p. 5 (printed p. 5)

What was costed, and who would pay?

The party published a costings table or separate document. This records publication, not independent validation, complete policy coverage or guaranteed funding.

Tax rises plus borrowing: the Statistical Appendix shows a deficit funded by additional debt of £85.3bn in 2025-26 and £79.5bn in 2029-30.

These are the party’s 2024 estimates, not today’s receipts or spending. Annual and whole-parliament amounts, different price bases and different geographies cannot be added or ranked as though they were the same.

Independent scrutiny and implementation limits

Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2024-06-12

tax increases of over £170 billion a year by the end of the parliament to fund a £160 billion boost to day-to-day spending, plus an extra £90 billion a year of capital spending; even on the party's figures borrowing ends up around £80 billion a year higher. The tax measures are unlikely to raise what is claimed, especially a carbon tax that shrinks its own base, and would carry real economic costs felt well beyond the wealthy.

What would implementation need to resolve?

These are the issues identified in the dated source review, not forecasts of markets, health outcomes or an election result. Later policies need a separate assessment.

Housing
The manifesto does not give a date by which 150,000 homes a year would be reached or a per-home cost.
NHS
The manifesto does not set a waiting-list target date, describing only a steady reduction in waiting lists.
Tax and spending
IFS: it doubts the carbon tax could raise over £90 billion, since a tax that changes behaviour raises less, and expects lower yields once people respond to the tax rises.
Work
The manifesto does not say when the £15 minimum wage would apply or how it would be phased in.
Education
The manifesto does not say whether the £8bn schools figure is annual or a total, or over what period.
Energy
The manifesto does not give a specific target year for zero carbon or say how nationalised energy retailers would be valued beyond the £30bn combined figure.
Immigration
The manifesto does not state a target level for net migration or say how visa numbers would be set.

What happened at the election—and since?

These proposals were published for the July 2024 general election. Election results, present voting intention and government delivery are different measures; use the linked evidence pages for each.