We may be seeing the end of the Tory attack on our society: Jeremy Corbyn
Labour leader's 10 pledges
- Full employment and an economy that works for all: based around a £500bn public investment via the planned national investment bank.
- A secure homes guarantee: building 1m new homes in five years, at least half of them council homes. Also rent controls and secure tenancies.
- Security at work: includes stronger employment rights, an end to zero hours contracts and mandatory collective bargaining for companies with 250 or more employees.
- Secure our NHS and social care: end health service privatisation and bring services into a “secure, publicly-provided NHS”.
- A national education service: includes universal public childcare, the “progressive restoration” of free education, and quality apprenticeships.
- Action to secure our environment: includes keeping to Paris climate agreement, and moving to a “low-carbon economy” and green industries, in part via national investment bank.
- Put the public back into our economy and services: includes renationalising railways and bringing private bus, leisure and sports facilities back into local government control.
- Cut income and wealth inequality: make a progressive tax system so highest earners are “fairly taxed”, shrink the gap between the highest and lowest paid.
- Action to secure an equal society: includes action to combat violence against women, as well as discrimination based on race, sexuality or disability, and defend the Human Rights Act.
- Peace and justice at the heart of foreign policy: aims to put conflict resolution and human rights “at the heart of foreign policy”.
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