Green Party members have voted to 'abolish' landlords at their autumn conference as they took aim at the nearly three million people in Britain who rent out a home.
A motion passed at the Greens' gathering in Bournemouth on Sunday committed the left-wing party to 'seek the effective abolition of private landlordism'.
This would be achieved through punitive regulation and taxes on landlords, including the introduction of rent controls and scrapping of Right to Buy.
Those who let out Airbnbs would have to pay business rates under the Greens' plans, while there would be double taxation for empty properties.
Party members also backed proposals for a 'land value tax' levied on owners not tenants, as well as the imposition of National Insurance on private rents.
In addition, the motion demanded the ending of buy to let mortgages as a means of removing finance for landlords.
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