Greens plan to tax the wealthy to provide more money for schools

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Education in the UK has been pushed to the brink, the leader of the Greens has said, as he pledged his party would provide more money for schools by taxing the wealthy.Speaking at the National Education Union’s annual conference in Brighton, Zack Polanski said the UK is “shrinking” the horizons of young people rather than expanding their opportunities.

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00:05And look, when I talk about the need for more money for things like schools and

00:11colleges, I often get asked, can we afford it? How will we pay? And as I'm sure

00:18you'll know, we have a plan to tax the extreme wealth being hoarded in this

00:24country. We need to make sure that money can flow around the economy to where it's

00:31really needed, like our schools. The average wealth of a billionaire in the UK

00:37grew by more than 230 million pounds last year. That's money. That's right, Shane,

00:47because that is money, by the way, that is made off the back of this country's

00:52education system.

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