LABOUR “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing," the Green Party’s co-leader has said in a conference speech urging the government to be “more ambitious.”

Adrian Ramsay used his address on the opening day of the Green Party conference in Manchester today to launch a wide-ranging attack on the government, saying it was not doing enough on the NHS, housing or the climate crisis.

Promising to hold the government to account “where we think greater ambition is needed,” he said: “Because in so many areas, ones that matter deeply to so many of us, Labour is getting it wrong.

“Like denying winter fuel payments to millions of pensioners, giving the green light to new climate-destroying airport expansion, and to sticking with the cruelty of the two-child benefit cap.

“Like the welcome but half-hearted, partial suspension of arms sales to Israel, and continuing with the nonsensical ban on asylum-seekers being allowed work."

He also urged ministers to block the new Rosebank oil field approved by their predecessors, saying there was “no justification” for its development.