Why Natalie Bennett doesn't need to do the sums on policy

To be fair to Natalie Bennett, she took the rather admirable step of apologising on the Daily Politics for being so woeful in her disastrous interview with Nick Ferrari this morning. But the whole episode tells us a lot about how the Green party views its appeal to voters. Yes, yes, it’s embarrassing that a party leader boasting about a flagship housing policy ended up sitting in the most painful silence imaginable while she tried to think of how that policy would actually, you know, work. But clearly if she thought that knowing the details of the policy would be important, she might have checked the details before walking into the LBC studio with Nick Ferrari. Clearly she did not.

Today the party unveiled its campaign poster, which reads ‘Standing for the Common Good’, and both Bennett and Caroline Lucas spoke of the need for a ‘clear, strong Green voice’. The party unveiled six key themes:

– Greens will rebuild our economy so everyone gets a fair share.