text: The Green Party this morning pledged an end to austerity - with a £90 billion a year spending splurge . The Green Party today demanded an end austerity with a radical £176 billion a year spending splurge - paying for everything from free prescriptions to organic school dinners for all. State pensions would be increased by more than £60 a week, child benefit doubled, tuition fees scrapped and train fares cut by 10 per cent. The party also pledged to pump an extra £12billion a year into the NHS from day one, introduce universal free elderly care and nationalise the railways. But its election manifesto also revealed a host of left-field pledges - including a 'complete ban' on cages for hens and rabbits, an end to whips in horse racing and mandatory 'equality and diversity lessons' at school. Immigrants will also be given free English classes, while fruit and vegetables will be subsidised and children will be kept out of school until they are seven. Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, unveiling her party's manifesto this morning, defended her 'vision of a fair economy'. She said: 'That fair economy demands the end to austerity. It demands we restore and enhance the essential public services we all but particularly the most vulnerable.' Ms Bennett's list of policy pledges will see government spending rise by £89 billion next year - and by £176billion by the end of the parliament. The extra spending would see an extra £11 billion going on debt interest. Under the party's proposal, an extra £198 billion of taxes will be introduced to pay for the raft of giveaways – worth an extra £6,600 for every taxpayer in the UK. Scroll down for video . Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and MP Caroline Lucas unveiled the Green Party general election campaigning at the Arcola Theatre, in London, this morning . Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, unveiling her party's manifesto this morning, defended her 'vision of a fair economy' The new taxes include £25 billion in new 'wealth taxes', levied at two per cent of the entire estate of someone worth £3million or more. It means someone with £10 million in assets would pay an extra £200,000 a year. Ms Bennett also proposed hitting those earning £150,000 or more with a new 60 per cent tax rate. There would also be a 'Robin Hood Tax' on financial transactions and a promise to close tax loopholes. Corporation Tax would rise to 30 per cent with duties on cigarettes and alcohol increasing by £1.4bn every year. The party would save cash by scrapping £15 billion of road improvement works. Instead the railways will be renationalised, a move the Greens claim will save £1 billion a year. Some £8 billion will be spent cutting public transport fares and HS2 will be scrapped. Tuition fees will be scrapped at a cost of £4.5 billion, while school funding will be increased by £7 billion. Grammar schools will be turned into comprehensives and the ‘cruel’ bedroom tax abolished. Ms Bennett told activists next month's election was a landmark for the party. She said it was a 'new kind of politics' where the economy and society could be run for the many and not the few. The leader said: 'It sees the end of the disastrous policy of austerity that is making the poor, the disadvantaged and the young pay for the greed and the fraud of the bankers. 'This is a vision that is exciting increasing numbers of Britons.' Turning to her jobs policy, Ms Bennett said: 'That fair economy demands every worker is paid a living wage. It is really not a radical statement to say that if you work full time you should earn enough money to live on. The party's manifesto listed a series of radical policies, including an extra £12billion for the NHS, free social care for the elderly, the nationalisation of the railways and an end to tuition fees . 'And yet we are the only UK party who is saying the minimum wage should immediately be lifted to a living wage and should reach £10 an hour by 2020.' The Green leader said protection of the NHS was at the heart of the party's election offer as she vowed to strip all private operators from the organisation. She said the 'expensive, destructive' market would be removed from the health service. Ms Bennett said: 'Behind that is an understanding of what privatisation has really meant for so many of our public services. 'It's meant the cutting of the pay and conditions of workers, it's meant the cutting of the quality of services and it has meant the shovelling of public money into private hands.' Other policies include re-nationalising the railways and policies to tackle climate change.
target: Greens pledge to increase government spending by £89bn next year .
  By 2020, the party would hike spending by £176bn to almost £1 trillion .
  NHS spending would go up by £12bn, with the railways nationalised .
  Free care for the elderly introduced and tuition fees scrapped .
  Travellers would get new 'nomadic rights' and foreign aid increased .