Here is the summary of Labour’s general election manifesto. Click one of the links below to go to a specific section. You can read the whole manifesto here. Click here to read all parties’ manifestos.
Economy
- cut the deficit every year and balance the books as soon as possible in the next Parliament
- reverse the 50p tax cut so that the top one per cent pay a little more to help get the deficit down
- not increase the basic or higher rates of Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT
- cut and then freeze business rates and maintain the most competitive corporate tax rates in the G7
- abolish non dom status
- increase the National Minimum Wage to more than £8 an hour by October 2019 and introduce Make Work Pay contracts to provide tax rebates to firms becoming Living Wage employers
- ban exploitative zero-hours contracts
- guarantee an apprenticeship for every school leaver who attains the grades and require any firm that gets a large government contract to offer apprenticeships
- reduce tuition fees to £6,000 a year
- freeze energy bills until 2017 and give the regulator the power to cut bills this winter
- introduce a British Investment Bank and support a network of regional banks.
Health & Education
- invest £2.5 billion more that the Conservatives to recruit 8,000 more GPs, 20,000 more nurses and 3,000 more midwives
- guarantee GP appointments within 48 hours and cancer tests within one week
- join up services from home to hospital, with a single point of contact for all who need it
- give mental health the same priority as physical health, with a new right to access talking therapies
- repeal the Government’s privatisation plans, cap profits and put the right values back at the heart of the NHS
- end time-limited 15 minute social care visits and recruit 5,000 new home-care workers to support people in their home
- introduce a new gold-standard Technical Baccalaureate for 16 to-18-year olds
- protect the entire education budget from early years through to post-16 education
- guarantee all teachers in state schools will be qualified
- appoint Directors of School Standards to drive up standards in every area
- cap class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds
- ensure all young people study English and Maths to age 18.
Social Policies
- extend free childcare from 15 to 25 hours for working parents of three and four-year-olds, and ensure all primary schools guarantee access to wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm
- double paternity leave from two to four weeks and increase paternity pay by more than £100 a week
- ensure at least 200,000 new homes a year are built by 2020, with first priority for local first time buyers
- provide security for renters by guaranteeing three-year tenancies with a ceiling on excessive rent rises
- introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, paid for by a Bank Bonus Tax
- abolish the Bedroom Tax
- ensure migrants will not be able to claim benefits until they have lived here for at least two years
- make it illegal for employers to undercut wages by exploiting workers
- protect neighbourhood policing by safeguarding over 10,000 frontline police officers over the next three years
- give football fans a voice in club boardrooms.
Constitution
- set up a people-led Constitutional Convention to determine the future of UK’s governance
- replace the House of Lords with a Senate of the Nations and Regions
- pass an English Devolution Act, handing £30 billion of resources and powers to our great English city and county regions
- give new powers for communities to shape their high streets, including power over payday lenders and the number of fixed-odds betting terminals
- meet our promises to devolve further powers to Scotland and Wales
- give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote
- create a statutory register of lobbyists
- ban MPs from holding paid directorships and consultancies
- require large companies to publish their gender pay gap
- implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry.
Europe, Defence & Foreign Policy
- conduct a Strategic Defence and Security Review in the first year of government
- return Britain to a leadership role in Europe, but reform the EU so that it works for Britain
- guarantee no powers will be transferred to Brussels without an in/out referendum
- appoint an International LGBT Rights Envoy and a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom
- outlaw discrimination against and abuse of members of the Armed Forces
- enshrine the Military Covenant in the NHS Constitution
- push for global targets to tackle inequality and promote human rights
- establish a Centre for Universal Health Coverage
- push for an ambitious target in Paris to get to goal of net zero global emissions in the second half of this century.