Greens suggest taking up three-day weekend

Moving to three-day weekends could make the country more productive and healthier, the Green Party’s leaders have suggested.

The policy idea was put forward by co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley in a bid to address the pressures of modern life.

Ms Lucas, the party’s only MP, said it was time to take a “step back” and examine what kind of economy the country wanted.

She said: “I think there’s a lot of evidence that suggests that when people are exhausted their productivity goes down.

“What we’re suggesting here is that we are now the sixth-largest economy in the world, people are working ever more hours, getting ever 0 Caroline Lucas says it is time to take a step back more stressed, getting ever more ill health.

“What we want to do is take a step back and think ‘What kind of country do we want to be?’ Do we really want a future where all of us are just trying to work even harder so we’re bringingourworkwithusevery time we go home in the evenings, at the weekends?”