Britain's Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn
poses for a picture with his campaign bus in Manchester EPA
Labour's election manifesto has
been leaked five days ahead of schedule.
Right-wing newspapers have
dubbed the proposals as Jeremy Corbyn's bid to "take Britain back to the
1970s", but what is actually inside the 43-page docuemnt?
Nationalisation
One of the core pitches which
was widely expected to make the list is the
proposed renationalisation of the railways, bus firms, the Royal
Mail and the energy industry.
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Mr Corbyn and people on the
radical left of the party have long called for the return of British Rail but
the proposal has gained popularity among the general public in recent years as
rail fares continue to go up while cancellations and delays continue.
Southern Rail
customers, who have suffered months of misery due to cancellations, delays
and strike action, were recently told the boss of its parent company,
Charles Horton, was
awarded a £500,000 bonus in April despite the company losing close to £15m.
Labour would also
nationalise the energy sector to combat price rises at a time when the
cost of commodities is falling. The move will go further than the energy price
freeze promised by Ed Miliband in 2015 which
was then adopted by Theresa May.
NHS
Labour has said the NHS will be
"properly funded" with an extra £6bn-a-year raised by a tax on the
nation's highest earners, which
will alleviate pressure on doctors and nurses working in UK hospitals.
It has vowed to take millions
off waiting lists and boost support for the equally under-pressure GP and
ambulance services.
The party has also vowed to
scrap the Health and
Social Care Act 2012 which allowed more privatisation into the NHS.
It will also invest a further
£8bn a year over the course of the Parliament to create a National Care Service
which will embody the values of the NHS.
Education
The
party will completely scrap the £9,000 tuition fees for all undergraduate
university students and will reintroduce maintenance grants.
The rise during the Coalition
government was a reason for the collapse of Liberal Democrat support
at the 2015 election, as they had pledged to oppose all tuition fee rises.
The policy is expected
to cost around £10bn and it is hoped will attract younger voters to
the party.
Mr Corbyn has also vowed
to reverse £5bn of Tory school cuts.
Housing
Mr Corbyn has proposed the
creation of a new Department of Housing and forcing councils to build 100,000
new council houses a year.
He will also
see that thousands of homes will be offered to rough sleepers and private
landlords will not be able to raise rent above inflation.
Work
The party proposes
reintroducing the Ministry of Labour – which was renamed the Department of
Employment in the late 1960s – and promises to make the biggest changes to
workers' rights in a generation.
It
will also scrap Tory plans to increase the pension age to 66, and will
retain the laws on workers' rights which have been passed down from EU
directives.
They will also repeal the Trade
Union Act 2016 which severely hampered the unions' ability to call
strikes.
Brexit
Labour says it will continue
with Brexit but it rules out "making false promises on immigration
numbers".
Mr Corbyn will immediately
secure the rights of the EU nationals who are already living here and scrap
minimum income rules for the partners of non-EU migrants.
The
manifesto said leaving the EU without a deal in place was the "worst
possible" option and would damage the economy. It said Labour will
formally reject the idea of no deal as "viable".
It has also promised a "meaningful vote" on the deal in
Parliament.
Policing and Infrastructure
As
Diane Abbott struggled to announce last week, Labour will introduce 10,000
new police officers on the UK's streets.
The manifesto also promises to
start a £250bn capital investment programme to upgrade British infrastructure.
Taxation
On the thorny issue of how the
party plans to pay for the new spending, Labour has the rich firmly in its
sights.
There will be new income taxes slapped
on workers earning more than £80,000 a year – which the party says will
bring in an extra £6bn a year which they will put directly into the NHS.
They also promise to reverse
the huge cuts to corporation tax introduced by the Conservatives – bringing in
an extra £20bn a year.
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