Britons would face wartime-style rationing of meat, dairy, petrol and flying under plans being drawn up by the Green Party, which could be drawn into a coalition agreement with Andy Burnham‘s Labour.

The extreme policies, being drafted by officials working for leader Zack Polanski ahead of the party’s annual conference this autumn, propose state-controlled cuts of 50 per cent in the amount of miles driven by each person and a cut of 70 per cent in miles flown.

The party admitted that rationing would have a ‘whiff of wartime’ and ‘catch the front pages’.

Read more: Britons would face wartime-style rationing of meat, dairy, petrol and flights under new Green Party plans – and they could end up in coalition with Burnham’s Labour