Green Party pledges free social care for all over 65s

Natalie Bennett hailed the Greens as "the politics of the future" at the party's conference in Liverpool today.

But the latest ITV News Index poll found just 9% of voters consider them a serious party.

ITV News' Political Correspondent Lewis Vaughan Jones reports:

Social care for all over 65s would be free under the Green Party, leader Natalie Bennett has announced.

In a speech to the party's spring conference in Liverpool, Bennett said the policy would become a manifesto pledge because it was vital in a "decent, humane" society.

A vote for the Greens would be a vote for "hope not fear"', she told the audience.

"This election can be a turning point in history. The moment where we can deliver a better Britain, a Britain which works for its people. A Britain which cares," she said.

The Green Party is most likely to be associated by the British public as "idealistic" and "amateurish", according to the latest ITV News Index poll.

The survey of 2,013 British adults suggests just 9% associated the Greens with the phrase "a serious party of Government".

The ITV News Index poll was carried out by ComRes between 27 February and 1 March.