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