With Brexit posing questions over the UK's environmental legislation, the Green Party has made new environmental pledges.

Speaking at the launch of the party’s Environment Manifesto in London, party leader Caroline Lucas pledged to put environmental protection laws at the forefront of the campaign and safeguard EU law.

The pledge highlights the party’s drive to tackle air pollution in the UK and Ealing Green Party Candidate for Ealing North, Meena Hans, said this was the borough’s most pressing issue.

The Green Party candidate, who has run to be a councillor twice, said: “People are walking around breathing that air every day and it’s definitely going to have an impact on our health, so I would say it is the most important issue.”

In a 2016 report conducted by Ealing Green Party every testing location on an Ealing Road exceeded the legal limit of 40 micrograms per cubic metre and Ms Hans said this was a contributing factor to the development of respiratory problems.

She said: “It was quite scary to realise how over polluted our streets are.

“I read an article recently that said in China before their victory day parade they banned cars for 10 days and the air cleared up and they could see the blue sky which they hadn’t seen. 10 days is all it took.

“All our policies are really interlinked and that’s what a lot of the other party’s really don’t get.

“That everything affects something else and you’ve got to deal with the whole thing, you can’t just solve one problem and think the others don’t need to be addressed.”

Alongside tackling air pollution, Ealing Green Party are also involved in opposing Heathrow expansion and raising awareness of green issues.

Ms Hans is also personally focussed on pushing for more electric cars.

She said: “The car manufacturers need to be forced to stop making petrol and diesel cars because the minute we are all driving electric vehicles it’s a no brainer isn’t it, the air is going to have such an impact on our own quality.

“For us the biggest thing is making people aware of our policies because unless people look into our website we don’t get coverage in the media like UKIP.

“We are just not given the same publicity and therefore people don’t have that awareness of us so we have to work a lot harder ourselves to try and make people aware.

“In fact, what I’ve personally heard from the majority of people when they do see what our policies are there is not much they disagree with.

“For us it is all about making life better for everybody.”