BROADLY left-wing parties should pursue “grown-up politics” by forming progressive alliances across the country, Caroline Lucas has said.

The co Green leader and candidate for Brighton Pavilion, said there was “a huge amount of enthusiasm and energy” for deals between parties such as the Greens, Liberal Democrats and Labour to defeat the Tories in the upcoming election.

It comes as the Greens withdrew their candidate in Oxford West and Abingdon to make way for the Liberal Democrats.

The Lib Dems have already stood aside in Brighton Pavilion for Ms Lucas but Labour rejected a similar deal for the Isle of Wight, despite Greens standing down for Labour’s Rupa Huq in London

Ms Lucas told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “For this to happen we need Jeremy Corbyn to get around a table with us and I think what is so disappointing is that he talks about doing politics differently and yet he is betraying the mass of the people that he says he represents by allowing them to be hit hardest by a massive Tory majority.

“We’ve still got a few more days where we could build on these alliances. It isn’t just the Green Party asking for them.”