Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Two U-turns in one morning: Greens drop citizens’ income and hug-a-jihadi policy

Natalie Bennett has just been taking questions as part of the Sky leaders’ debates for younger voters, and delivered the second Green U-turn of the day, this time on terrorism. After struggling on the Sunday Politics to explain why her party thinks that membership of a terrorist group alone should not be a crime, the Green leader decided to say that actually, her party thought that it was:

‘Obviously [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda are hideous terrorist organisations that advocate and support violence. If you are involved in them, support them in any way, then you are participating in inciting violence, that’s a crime, rightly, and should be pursued to the full extent of the law.’

This follows Caroline Lucas saying that the citizens’ income was a ‘longer-term aspiration’ rather than something that would appear in the 2015 general election manifesto.

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