Green Party co-leaders Carla Denier and Adrian Ramsay were speaking at the party’s election campaign launch in Bristol.
Denier welcomed the call for an election, declaring the party “ready” and “excited” to contest.
“We can offer real hope and real change that other parties don’t,” she told the assembled activists.
Mr Ramsay said the election was “historic” because opinion polls made it “clear” the Conservatives would lose, and slammed the “chaos and confusion” of recent years.
Mr Denier slammed the Labour party, saying people were “not proposing these changes” and were “disappointed” by “Starmer’s withdrawal of green investment promises and weak proposals on housing” as well as “further privatisation of the NHS”.
“Labour is failing to deliver the change that is truly needed,” she argues.
“We have practical solutions to the cost of living crisis, building new affordable homes, protecting the NHS from incremental privatisation and cleaning up our toxic rivers and seas.”
“That’s why it’s so important that when Labour forms the next government, they go beyond the modest reforms they’re proposing.”
Ramsay said his aim was to “elect between one and at least four Green Party councillors” in this election.
They have begun to announce key pledges, including pushing for tax reform, building homes “in the right place at the right price”, cleaning up Britain’s waterways, ensuring a strong National Health Service (NHS) and halting “backsliding” in tackling the climate crisis.
Mr Denier said voters were “thrilled to have a real choice” and that “the incremental reforms proposed by Labor will not get this country back on track”.
