Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer answers questions sent in to ITV News by social media viewers, including on cultured meat, illegal drugs, and wasted votes.
The UK's voting system means smaller parties always struggle to gain seats at General Elections, but Greens co-leader Carla Denyer has denied backing her party is a wasted vote.
ITV News will be replicating the same format of asking the party leaders questions sent in by you, throughout the campaign before the General Election on July 4. The 38 year old is aiming to take advantage of voter apathy, hoping people fed up with the main parties will decide to go Green instead. So a party could get millions of votes by finishing second in areas across the country but get no seats in Parliament.Isn't going Green too expensive in a cost-of-living crisis?
"And that will then bring us benefits to the economy in terms of GDP, but also in terms of people's health, by having cleaner air, cleaner waterways, better public transport, better access to jobs in education, the benefits far, far outweigh the costs." It even previously had a policy to ration meat and dairy because, its website stated, "it will not be possible to prevent catastrophic climate change unless consumption of these foods is drastically reduced".
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