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Green Party co-chairs Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay speak at the party’s campaign launch in Bristol.

Ms Denyer welcomes the announcement of the election, declaring the party is “ready” and “excited” about the campaign.

He tells the gathered activists: “We have something to offer that no other party has – real hope and real change.”

Ramsay says the election is “historic” because polls “clearly” show the Tories will lose, and blasts the “chaotic and destructive” government over the past few years.

Ms Denyer also slams Labor, claiming people are “not buying for this change” and are “disappointed with the way Starmer has backtracked on his green investment promises, his poor housing deal” and “more privatization” of the NHS.

“Work doesn’t provide the real, needed change,” he argues.

“We have practical solutions to the cost of living crisis by building new, affordable homes, protecting our NHS from increasing privatization and cleaning up our toxic rivers and seas.

“That is why it is so important that when Labor forms the next government, it is pushed beyond the timid changes it is offering.”

Ramsay says their aim is to “elect at least four Green MPs” in this election – rather than one.

They are starting to reveal their key commitments, including pushing for tax reform, building homes “at the right price in the right place”, cleaning up Britain’s waterways, ensuring a strong NHS and stopping “rollbacks” in the fight against the climate crisis.

Ms Denyer says voters are “excited to have a real choice”, arguing that the “incremental changes laid out by Labor simply won’t help get the country back on track”.