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Green party conference continues with cost of living on the agenda – UK politics live

Global Published 3 October 2026, 14:11 · archived 3 Oct 2026

Green conference enters its second day, while Tories prepare for theirs on SundayGreens’ deputy leaders are due to address members on Day 2 of their conference in Brighton shortly, and we’ll have a live stream of those remarks in the top of our blog.But yesterday, party leader Zach Polanski used his conference speech to introduce a key new policy, calling for a “three-year emergency brake on private rents”.No rent rises above CPI wage growth or 2%, whichever is lower. No sudden hikes. No evictions under the guise of rent rises. No more uncertainty, no more fear. That emergency brake would give...

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