As a reminder, a special 90-minute edition of Woman's Hour featuring an election debate between senior women from seven political parties is now under way.

These include:

• Labour - Sarah Jones
• Conservatives - Mims Davies
• Lib Dems - Daisy Cooper
• SNP - Hannah Bardell
• Green Party – Ellie Chowns
• Plaid Cymru – Liz Saville Roberts
• Reform UK – Maria Bowtell

You can watch the show by pressing the Play button at the top of this page.

Harry in Brighton has the last question for Ramsay.

He begins by explaining how his constituency, long-run by the Green Party, has climate policies in place that are "not working".

Harry puts to Ramsay that the Green Party is promoting green ideas to score points with the public but implementing them is going against their cause.

Ramsay responds by first saying how he's not the councillor in Brighton, so he can't go in to specific measures there, but then pivots to highlight how affordable housing is one of the key issues he discusses with the party's candidate there.

The Greens, he says, would introduce the ability for councils to cap private rent based on local needs and local wages.

Nicky Campbell then ends the interview by asking the Green co-leader if he drives - "yes" - and if he flies - "I haven't flown in a long time".

A previous Green voter - Linda - now calls in to Nicky's show to press Ramsay on his party's approach on immigration, highlighting how their position has given her pause.

Do the Greens, she asks, have an open door policy on immigration?

"No, we don't," Ramsay says.

"You could reasonably have an open door policy in the long term. But this is not what we are proposing in this election, this is not in our manifesto."

Nicky presses Ramsay on this point, and asks if an open door policy is an aspiration for the party, to which he says: "We want to have a welcoming society."

And finally LBC host Ferrari rattles through a list of personal questions to Keir Starmer, including whether his children would move into Downing Street with him if there is a Labour government in just over two weeks.

Starmer says he's "not getting ahead of himself".

He's also asked why the public does not see more of Starmer's wife, Victoria. He says his wife has been working and supporting their son who has been doing his GCSEs.

And is there anything Starmer admires about Rishi Sunak?

Starmer repeats the answer he gave to the BBC before the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last October, about the day Sunak became prime minister.

Starmer tells LBC Sunak made the effort of picking up the phone to him so they could discuss the need for co-operation on matters of national interest.

He didn't have to do that on the day he was elected, Starmer says, bringing his phone-in with listeners to an end.

Branwen Jeffreys
Education Editor

For families with a child with special educational needs or disabilities in England, Keir Starmer earlier made an important clarification on what will happen under Labour’s plans to apply VAT to private school fees.

Some children are in fee paying schools paid for by public money because of a shortage of provision in the state sector.

Starmer said if a child had needs set out in a legally binding education health care plan (EHCP) that could only be met in a private school the child or fees would be exempt. Currently almost 600,000 children and young adults have an EHCP.

Here's what he said: "If it’s part of the plan, and the plan, because of the particular needs, can only be met in a private school, then that child or that fee is exempt from our scheme, and therefore they are outside of the change that we’re making."

The next caller on LBC asks Keir Starmer what he would do about the situation in Gaza and the broader Israel-Palestine conflict, and whether recognising a Palestinian state is on his agenda if elected as prime minister.

The Labour leader says he has been clear there needs to be an "immediate ceasefire" and an end to the "appalling situation" in Gaza, where hostages are still being held by Hamas and tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed.

"It will be important to me that we play our full part in resolving this for the long term - and that means a two-state solution," he says.

"We need a viable Palestinian state and we need a safe and secure Israel - we don't have either of those at the moment."

When pressed for details on what a future state could look like, Starmer says: "I'm not going to sit on air and make decisions about land, but we have to find a resolution to this."

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Back to Labour's Keir Starmer now, who is asked on LBC about his party's decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which stops families on universal credit from receiving additional payments per child once they have more than two children.

He says the decision was a "tough one" but that the party doesn't have a "magic wand".

“We’ve taken the careful approach of saying every single thing that we are putting in our manifesto is fully costed and funded,” he says.

He says Labour would have "a policy for reducing and eliminating child poverty", with a particular focus on measures to increase the supply of affordable housing.

Up next is Darren and Stacy, who ask Ramsay how would people be able to afford an increase in income taxes.

Stacey, a clinical nurse, explains how she was interested in voting for the Green Party but its tax policy on earners above £50,270 "stopped me in my tracks".

Ramsay begins by clarifying to the callers that the Greens have not proposed any changes to income tax, but rather National Insurance (in their proposal, the party would charge the basic 8% rate on income above what’s called the Upper Earnings Limit).

People should pay the same percentage of their salary or National Insurance - regardless of their income, he says.

At the moment, if you earn over £50,000 you actually pay a lower percentage of your salary than if you earn under £50,000, he adds.

The funds raised from this proposal, he argues, would help offset other expenses people are forking out hard-earned money for - including private dental, higher food prices, and high public transport costs.

A question coming from Sarah over in Doncaster who, as a person who voted in favour of Brexit (and now regrets that decision), asks if the Greens plan to rejoin the European Union.

"Ultimately, we believe that our place is within the EU, we are a party of international cooperation," Ramsay says, noting that rejoining would only happen "when the political and economic circumstances are right".

When Sarah brings up illegal migration, Ramsay says that the Green Party is the only party wanting to put support and funding into addressing the root causes.

"We need to put in place a proper workforce strategy for every sector in the economy," he adds.

Let's return to Nicky Campbell and Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who are taking questions from voters over on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Rob from Croydon puts it bluntly: is a vote for the Green Party a “wasted vote”, so long as the UK doesn't use proportional representation in its voting system?

Ramsay responds by saying “absolutely not”. First, he says, it’s important to ”vote with your heart” especially when polls indicate that Labour is on track for a “huge majority”.

“If we have a group of Green MPs elected, we can push the next government beyond the timid promises that Labour is putting forward,” he says, echoing his remarks made earlier on BBC Breakfast.

The second point the Green co-leader drives home is that this election is actually 650 different ones occurring in constituencies across the country - and many of these races, he argues, are ones where the Green Party is the main challenger to the incumbent.

The next caller on LBC asks Keir Starmer whether there will be council tax rises under a Labour government if the party win on 4 July.

Starmer says none of his party's plans require a tax rise "over and above the ones we've set out" - like closing loopholes in the government's existing plans to tax non-domiciled taxpayers (more on that here) and applying VAT to private schools.

But he does not directly rule out council tax rises when pressed by host Nick Ferrari.

"I'm not going to sit here and write the budgets for next five years," he says, adding that Labour's focus is on "getting the economy going" instead so revenue can be raised without an increase to taxation.

For context, Labour has ruled out raising rates of income tax, National Insurance, or VAT.

Sir Keir Starmer is asked by an LBC caller who opposed Brexit how the UK's relationship with Europe would change under a Labour government.

He says Labour would not seek to rejoin the bloc or reintroduce freedom of movement, but that the “deal we’ve got is a botched deal”.

He says he wants to see a new arrangement to remove time-consuming border checks, bolster the UK's research and development sector, and increase co-operation on national security.

“During the Ukraine conflict, its become clear, we can do more work with our EU partners when it comes to defence and security," he says.

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Let's now turn our attention to Labour and Keir Starmer, who's facing questions from Nick Ferrari and his listeners on LBC.

Ferrari puts to Starmer claims from teachers, including the head teacher at Reigate Grammar School where the Labour leader attended, that his party's plans to add 20% VAT on private school fees risk overwhelming the state system and is an attack on aspirational parents who save to send their children to them.

For context, under current legislation the price of sending a child to a fee-paying school does not include VAT, at a rate of 20%. If Labour forms the next government they plan to change that and use the additional tax revenue to train more teachers, citing an estimated shortage of 6,000.

How come you know better than all these teachers? Ferrari asks.

Starmer says he has "nothing against private schools", adding that he understands "parents work hard and save hard" to send their children to these institutions.

"But all parents have aspirations for their children," he says.

He tells the programme he wants to make sure every single child has the opportunity to get on in life and feel "success belongs to them".

Over on BBC Radio 5 Live, Nicky Campbell first takes a call from Emma from Basingstoke who begins by discussing how "depressing" the environment can be and how this oftentimes leaves people to feel "disempowered".

"How would the Green Party ensure that this doesn't happen any more?" she asks.

Ramsay answers by discussing how "most people want to have an impact on the environment" but highlights how there needs to be MPs in government who are advocating for those policies.

Some of those policies that the Greens are proposing, he says, include a carbon tax and the need to put a tax on carbon intensive imports.

This way, he says, "we can ensure clean and low carbon UK manufacturing in production".

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay is now taking calls from the audience on the Nicky Campbell show on BBC Radio 5 Live, following his appearance on BBC Breakfast a little while ago.

You'll be able to watch the show live at the top of the page by clicking the Play button.

At the same time, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is taking questions on LBC's Nick Ferrari show.

We'll be bringing you key lines from both Ramsay and Starmer on this page, so stay with us.

We've just been hearing from Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay on the BBC Breakfast sofa.

In his short interview with Jon and Sarah, he attacked the Tories and Labour over their tax policies, saying his party had taken a "different approach" to taxation to address the level of investment needed.

He said the manifesto had been "effectively costed" and said the independent think thank the IFS had welcomed efforts in it to close inheritance tax loopholes.

He said his party's plans for a wealth tax would support public services, and cover "multi-millionaires and billionaires", bringing the UK in line with other European countries like Spain and Switzerland.

He said the Greens would keep Labour "honest" if they are elected into government in just over two weeks time.

We'll be hearing from him again shortly on Nicky Campbell's BBC Radio 5 Live phone-in programme. So stick with us as we bring you some of the answers to questions put to the Green Party co-leader in a bit.

A timely question is then put to Adrian Ramsay before the interview ends, as he's asked about his party's plans to dismantle Britain’s entire Trident nuclear deterrent and remove all foreign nuclear weapons from UK soil - on the same day that Russian leader Vladimir Putin heads to North Korea.

The Green co-leader begins by saying that the UK needs to have an approach to try to deescalate the conflicts around the world.

He also cites former army generals saying that Trident is not the answer to all security issues, and that the defence spending is far better to put into our Army personnel.

For context: The Trident nuclear-weapons system is part of Britain's nuclear deterrent. The logic is if the UK were under nuclear attack, it could launch a retaliatory strike on the aggressor, a concept known as mutually assured destruction. The Greens have said it plans to stay in the Nato military alliance

Speaking about the party's plans to introduce a new wealth tax of 1% on assets worth over £10m, and 2% on assets worth more than £1bn, Ramsay says this would cover "multi-millionaires and billionaires".

He says the party is emulating what other countries like Spain and Switzerland have done.

"The reality is if we're going to have Scandinavian or European level of health services, we’re not going to get that with US-level of tax system," he says.

Ramsay continues to explain why the Green Party's plans for investment in the NHS and other public services are important, and by his assessment "mainstream" by European standards.

He then accuses both Labour and the Conservatives of being "on the extreme", as he explains "that's why we need a group of Green MPs in the next Parliament".

"We can push them to take the real action that's needed," he says, adding that the Green Party would hope to "keep [Labour] honest" - if they are elected into government in the next two weeks.

Ramsay was asked if the sums add up, as he's reminded by BBC hosts that the IFS - an independent think tank - has looked at the Greens' plans and takes issue with how it will all be costed.

The Green Party co-leader responds by citing the BBC analysis, which he explains analysed his own party's manifesto when it launched last week.

"It said it has been effectively costed," Ramsay says, insisting that this is "because they have been developed in consultation with a range of experts".

He adds that the IFS "has applauded some of our efforts, including closing loopholes in the inheritance tax to make our tax system fairer".