Green conference enters its second day, while Tories prepare for theirs on Sunday
You can watch the speeches from Rachel Millward and Mothin Ali in the stream above.
We’re expecting Millward to call for the Burnham government to immediately bring water companies back into public ownership.
She’ll suggest that a “10-year plan of gentle threats and vague notions of control is not enough.” This was laid out by Burnham at Labour conference last week.
The Greens’ deputy leaders are due to address members on Day 2 of their conference in Brighton shortly, and we’ll have a live stream of those remarks in the top of our blog.
No rent rises above CPI wage growth or 2%, whichever is lower. No sudden hikes. No evictions under the guise of rent rises. No more uncertainty, no more fear.
That emergency brake would give renters vital breathing space. Let wages begin to catch up with the rents that have outstripped them for far too long.
And in the long term, we’ll put in place a national Fair Rents Guarantee – to keep rents affordable for everyone, forever. That doesn’t just mean cheaper homes, it doesn’t just mean government savings.
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