Greens’ Polanski Sets Out ‘Patriotic’ Case for UK Wealth Tax

The UK Green Party’s new leader Zack Polanski said he wants to challenge the right-wing’s “monopoly” on patriotism, as he set out his bid to attract left-leaning Britons disillusioned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.

Speaking to Bloomberg during the Greens’ three-day annual conference in Bournemouth that closed on Sunday afternoon, Polanski said left-wing economic policies — such as wealth taxes and deeper investment in public services — could help create a more equal society in which individuals and businesses would be proud to invest.

He disputed the idea that a wealth tax would cause the rich to ...