Welsh Greens: use tax power to cut tuition fees

The leader of the Welsh Greens says her party would push for more top earners to pay the highest rate of income tax if a future Welsh Government gets tax powers.

Pippa Bartolotti said the money raised should be used to reduce students' tuition fees.

In her speech to the Greens' UK conference in Bournemouth, Pippa Bartolotti said the party was on course to win three seats in the Assembly in next May's Welsh election.

And she told delegates that Green AMs would use that influence to campaign for income tax powers to be transferred and used.

'Little power plants'

She also says that Green AMs would push to raise building standards both for new homes and in renovating old houses.

Phase out coal-fired power plants

The Welsh leader told conference delegates that Green Party AMs would aim to introduce free Welsh lessons for newcomers and would oppose the 'environmental and financial scandal' of the planned M4 project. She said they would also work towards 'phasing out all coal-fired power plants in Wales by 2020.