THE Green Party pledged yesterday to cancel all student debt at the cost of £54 billion — as well as scrapping tuition fees.

Deputy leader Amelia Womack confirmed on Saturday at the Green Party conference that its general election manifesto will pledge to fund free university for undergraduates through “progressive taxation.”

She said: “This moment in our history, when our country runs the risk of being turned over to private interests and sold to the highest bidder, is no moment for half measures.