Labour Manifesto 2017

Labour Manifesto 2017

Labour Manifesto 2017

BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE KEY POINTS:

ECONOMY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

  • End zero hour contracts
  • Ban unpaid internships
  • Increase tax for those earning above £80,000
  • Raise the Minimum wage to the level of the Living Wage
  • Re-nationalisation of the railway system
  • Spend £250 billion over the next 10 years on infrastructure

BREXIT

  • Retain access to the Single Market
  • Protect the rights of EU workers
  • Ensure there are no gaps in national security
  • Continue to take in “fair share” of refugees

EDUCATION 

  • Abolish tuition fees
  • Reintroduce maintenance grants
  • Free school meals for all primary school children
  • More schools-based counseling to improve children’s mental health

ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY

  • 60% of the UK’s energy to come from zero-carbon or renewable sources by 2030
  • Universal superfast broadcast across the country by 2022

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

  • Extra £6 billion a year for the NHS
  • Extra £9 billion on social care
  • Guarantee patients can be seen in A&E within 4 hours
  • Increase tax on private medical insurance
  • Implement a ‘sugar tax’ as part of their strategy to counter childhood obesity
  • Protect spending on mental healthcare and increase proportion spent on children

HOUSING

  • Build at least 100,000 homes a year to be used for social housing
  • Build thousands more low-cost homes for first time buyers
  • Give housing benefits back to 18-21 – year-olds
  • Ban letting agency fees for tenants
  • Inflation caps on rent rises
  • Scrap the bedroom tax
  • Suspend the right-to-buy policy

 

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