In the last day of campaigning before polls open, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has written an exclusive piece for The Argus calling on residents to vote in what they believe in.

The call comes as the race for Brighton Pavilion hots up with latest YouGov data suggesting the contest between Caroline Lucas and Labour's Purna Sen is now "too close to call". 

Today, following in the pen marks of Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband who have both written extensive pieces for our paper in this election campaign, Ms Bennett writes that Labour must be kept true at this election:

Anyone can say the right things in politics.

But saying and doing are two different things.

In Caroline Lucas, Brighton Pavilion has a strong, clear voice - and Westminster has a force to be reckoned with.

She works effectively across parties to get things done.

Most recently she successfully lobbied, with local support, to make domestic abuse a specific offence.

She’s championed small businesses and protected our local pubs, tabling an amendment to prevent them being demolished or their use changed without planning permission.

With party lines increasingly blurred, a strong and progressive voice is more important than ever.

Tomorrow we have the chance to vote for a politics that works for the common good.

The Green Party has a plan for the future which would end the scandal of cold homes.

Cold homes cost lives. They cost our NHS about £1.3bn every year. There are families having to choose between heating and eating.

The solution is affordable - it’s a question of political will.

But not a single penny of the Treasury’s planned £100 billion investment in infrastructure is allocated to tackling fuel poverty.

Greens support a mass insulation programme, which would save lives, lower bills, create jobs, benefit the economy, and is crucial for the climate.

Action also means providing real opposition.

Labour’s been the Official Opposition for five years now. But it’s opposed far too little.

Osborne’s cuts - the most savage in modern history - have seen food bank use rocket and average real wages plummet, while the wealthiest have become richer still. Many crucial public services have been slashed, or axed completely.

But Labour didn’t fight our corner. It strolled shoulder-to-shoulder with the Tories into the Aye Lobby to vote ‘yes’ to austerity. Yes to cuts that target the poorest, hardest.

Time and again the Green voice has been the only real opposition in Parliament.

Caroline Lucas has been the only MP brave enough to put forward alternatives to austerity.

To argue we shouldn't be scrapping the Independent Living Fund – a life source for nearly 18,000 disabled people with high support needs.

Greens want to enable people with disabilities to have choices and control over how they live and work, rather than going into residential care or being trapped at home. The Green Party has championed it. The Tories are axing it. Labour’s done nothing to save it.

A couple with children in Brighton and Hove will have to save for almost two decades to afford a deposit for a home.

Labour needs to be kept to its pledges – and be bolder still.

We have a Living Wage (which Greens would raise to £10 an hour by 2020) - it’s time to discuss a Living Rent.

We need more affordable homes, improved quality housing, and guaranteed rights for renters.

We’re the only nationwide party to oppose squandering £100 billion on a replacement for Trident; the only party to oppose fracking (Labour wants to regulate it, ever so slightly more).

Caroline’s Bill for a public railway has won huge support - and it’s prising parties off the fence.

We’re the only party to back a truly public NHS. Our NHS isn’t safe with the Tories. But Labour’s proposals leave the back door open for private profiteers.

The NHS Reinstatement Bill - tabled by Caroline Lucas with backing from across the medical profession - shuts the loopholes, for a truly public, properly protected health service with patients at its heart.

We’d never prop up a Tory Government. But we can support a Labour minority, keep it true, and press it to be the Party many would like - and will need - it to be.

The only wasted voted is a vote you don’t believe in.

So today, why not vote for the candidate who inspires you, who you can trust to fight your corner.

The polls for Pavilion show a strong lead for Caroline, and we want more Green voices to join her in making politics what it should – and can – be.