Headline: The Green Tax switch

3.20.25pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 8th Jun 2006

Ming Campbell realises the critical importance of preserving the environment. That is why he fully supports measures to promote recycling, and in the graphic he is seen promoting recycling. Like we do in Welwyn Hatfield at local level.

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell MP has unveiled plans to protect and improve our environment with a major "green tax switch".

The party wants to cut income tax for everyone, and take millions of the least well off out of income tax altogether, whilst instead taxing pollution more heavily.

"We are the only major party which takes the environment seriously and that does mean that environmental taxes will rise, but we will also cut income tax by 2p in the pound and take around three million people out of income tax completely. This will be good news not just for our environment but for everyone who will benefit from income tax cuts," said Ming Campbell.

You can read his speech in full and watch a video interview with him at http://www.libdems.org.uk/menzies-campbell-speech.html