Labour manifesto for General Election 2017: Jeremy Corbyn's plan for Britain

Robin de Peyer7 June 2017
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Labour unveiled its most radical manifesto for a generation with a raft of spending plans costing £48 billion.

Leader Jeremy Corbyn announced a series of tax hikes, with a 45p rate of income tax on those earning more than £80,000 and a 50p tax rate for those on £123,000 or more.

Among a host of spending plans was £11.2bn to axe tuition fees for students and reintroduce maintenance grants.

The manifesto also contained plans to re-nationalise the railways, the Royal Mail and water companies.

Here are the key points of Labour’s 2017 General Election manifesto:

Tax and the deficit:

  • A new 45p rate of income tax for people earning £80,000 or more

  • The reintroduction of the 50p tax rate for those on more than £123,000

  • Scrapping of the bedroom tax

  • Corporation tax hiked from 19p in the pound to 26p

  • ‘Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions in the City

  • No rises in personal National Insurance contributions or VAT.

  • Aim to eliminate the deficit on day-to-day spending within five years

  • Ensure national debt is reduced

Brexit and immigration:

  • Ditch Theresa May’s strategy

  • Launch ‘fresh negotiating priorities’ – with emphasis on retaining access to the Single Market and Customes Union over immigration

  • Immediately guarantee existing rights for EU nationals in Britain

  • Reject the idea that ‘no deal’ is viable in EU negotiations

  • No cap on immigration

  • International students included in immigration figures

  • Crackdown on ‘fake colleges’

Housing:

  • Rent controls – rises limited to the rate of inflation

  • Extra powers for Mayor Sadiq Khan to help Londoners struggling to rent

  • Three-year tenancies to become the norm

  • Ban on letting agent fees

  • New consumer rights for tenants and new landlord licensing scheme

  • A million new homes over five years, including 100,000 social homes a year and low-cost housing for first-time buyers

  • Scrap right to buy and the bedroom tax

  • Make 4,000 additional homes available for rough sleepers to end homelessness.

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Education:

  • Tuition fees for universities scrapped

  • Upfront costs for colleges and further education courses scrapped

  • Reintroduce maintenance grants for students

  • Revers cuts to state schools

  • SATS at ages seven and 11 reviewed and tests for four and five year olds abolished

  • Schools given £90m a year for counselling for children

  • National Education Service to help mothers back into work by plugging the gap in childcare after maternity leave. Direct funding for nurseries

Transport:

  • Commitment to build Crossrail 2

  • New Brighton rail mainline

  • HS2 completed from London to Birmingham

  • Rail electrification and expansion across the country.

City and business:

  • Launch of German-style National Investment Bank to deliver ‘£250bn of lending power’

  • High Street banks barred from shutting branches where there is local need

  • Lower corporation tax rates for small businesses, which would also be exempt from quarterly reporting

  • Excessive pay levy on businesses which pay salaries “very high” sums

  • Creation of a Ministry of Labour

  • Zero-hours contracts banned

  • Maximum pay ratios of 20/1 in the public sector and for companies bidding for public contracts

  • Giving all workers ‘equal rights’ from day one

Work:

  • Zero-hours contracts banned

  • Opposing plans to raise state pension beyond 66

  • Raise minimum wage to "at least £10 per hour by 2020".

  • Ban unpaid internships.

Health:

  • One million people will be taken off NHS waiting lists by "guaranteeing access to treatment within 18 weeks".

  • Free parking in NHS England will be funded by increasing tax on private medical insurance premiums.

  • Scrap NHS pay cap.

  • NHS will receive more than £30 billion in extra funding over the next parliament.

  • Mental health budgets will be ring-fenced, and Labour will ensure all children in secondary schools have access to a counselling service.

Other policies:

  • 10,000 more police officers

  • Repealing Trade Union Act

  • £1bn Cultural Capital Fund over five years for the arts

  • Part II of the Leveson inquiry into media standards launched

  • Clean Air Act launched to tackle pollution

  • Guaranteed state pension triple lock, as well as the Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes.

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