Caroline Lucas: 'People want to vote for what they believe in'

The former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has been urging people to reject tactical voting dismissing the suggestion voting for smaller parties such as hers amounted to "wasting" a vote.

"Up and down the country, the sense that I'm getting is that people are fed up with tactical voting, that there is far more of a sense of people wanting to vote for what they believe in, and in particular, what the Green Party is offering," she said.

"[People] are fed up of voting with a nose peg over their noses, and when they take that nose peg off, there is a pretty nasty smell around," she added.