Five key takeaways from Green and Reform leaders’ Question Time

While emphasising the need to improve public transport, Mr Ramsay said he had a car and used it when he needed to.

But he added it was hybrid and not fully electric – even though he would like it to be – because he lived in a terraced house where a charging point could not be installed.

Mr Ramsay argued that was an example of a lack of transport infrastructure in the UK, with expensive trains, no buses to catch in many rural areas, and too many domestic flights.

His call for the railways to be brought back into public ownership got a round of applause.

How much would a scrappage scheme to get fossil-fuel vehicles off the roads by 2035 – as set out in the party’s manifesto – cost, he was asked.

He said all Green policies were fully costed, but couldn’t specify what car owners would get to scrap their petrol and diesel vehicles.