Conservative manifesto - 2019

Budget:

·        Not borrow to fund day-to-day spending

·        public sector net investment will not average more than 3 per cent of GDP

·        National debt will be lower at the end of the Parliament

·        No raise in rates of income tax

·        No raise in rates of National insurance

·        No raise in rates of VAT

·        raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500 next year

·        keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass

·        We will cut taxes for small retail businesses and for local music venues, pubs and cinemas

·        250 million for a cultural capital fund

·        Invest £100 billion in additional infrastructure spending – on roads, rail and other responsible, productive investment

·        flood defenses will receive £4 billion in new funding

·        stamp duty surcharge on non-UK resident buyers

·        new £3 billion National Skills Fund

·        increase the Employment Allowance for small businesses

·        Expand start up loans via the British business bank

·        We will increase the tax credit rate to 13 per cent and review the definition of R&D

·        Bring in a  Digital Services Tax

·        £1 billion Ayrton Fund to develop affordable and accessible clean energy

·        £640 million new Nature for Climate fund

·        Spend 0.7 GNI on international development

Health & Social care:

·        Recruit 50,000 more nurses

·        £34 billion per year by the end of the Parliament in additional funding for the NHS

·        building 40 new hospitals across the country

·        boost early cancer diagnosis across 78 hospital trusts

·        20 hospital upgrades announced in the summer

·        Students Nurses receiving a £5,000-£8,000 annual maintenance grant every year during their course

·        6,000 more doctors in general practice

·        6,000 more primary care professionals

·        7,500 extra nurse associates

·        20,000 primary care professionals

·        £25 million cash additional fund to hospices

·        End hospital parking

·        increase the NHS surcharge paid by those from overseas

·        nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it

·        1 billion for social care

·        extend the entitlement to leave for unpaid careers

·        doubling research funding into dementia

·        provide £74 million over three years for additional capacity in community care settings for those with learning disabilities and autism

·        Employment & Welfare:

·        Increased national wage to 10.50

·        create a single enforcement body and crack down on any employer abusing employment law

·        abolished employers’ National Insurance Contributions for under-21s

·        allow parents to take extended leave for neonatal care

·        We will establish a new £1 billion fund to help create more high quality, affordable childcare

·        keep our existing energy cap

·        continue the roll-out of Universal Credit

·        end the benefit freeze

·        maintaining our commitment to free school meals

·        reduce the number of reassessments a disabled person must go through

·        no longer allow people to claim child benefit for children living overseas

·        end the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament

·        our target of 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020

·        Crime:

·        20,000 more police

·        Equip police with Tasers and body cameras

·        put the Police Covenant into law

·        easier for officers to stop and search those convicted of knife crime

·        end automatic halfway release from prison for serious crimes

·        For child murderers, there will be life imprisonment without parole

·        cut the number of foreign nationals in our prisons

·        trialing Secure School

·        job coach in each prison

·        doubling the maximum sentence for assaulting workers in emergency services

·        add 10,000 more prison places

·        make intentional trespass a criminal offence

·        Double the maximum prison term to 14 years for tax evasion

·        Create a single, beefed-up AntiTax Evasion unit in HMRC

·        increase penalties for fly-tipping

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·        Brexit & Immigration:

·        Points-based immigration system

·        Leave the European union by January 2020

·        End the role of the European Court of Justice

·        NHS Visa for qualifies foreign doctors

·        ending freedom of movement

·        Actively recruiting leaders in their field to come to the UK.

·        We will treat EU and non-EU citizens equally

·        student visa allow those students to stay on to apply for work here after they graduate

·        start-up visa, for entrepreneurs

·        boost English language teaching

·        People coming into the country from the EU will only be able to access unemployment, housing, and child benefit after five years

·        £500 million of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

·        Increase the annual quota for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme we are piloting from 2,500 to 10,000.

Education:

·        Investing £14 billion over three years to increase funding for every primary and every secondary school pupil in the country.

·        an extra £14 billion in funding for schools

·        £5,000 a year for each secondary school pupil

·        £4,000 for each primary school pupil

·        £780 million in new funding to support children with Special Educational Needs

·        raising teachers’ starting salaries to £30,000

·        investing £500 million in youth services for young people

·        create a prisoner education service focused on work-based training and skills

·        Youth Futures Foundation will invest at least £90 million to improve employment outcomes for young people

·        have 20 Institutes of Technology

Government reform & agriculture:

·        We will ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts

·        Our ambition is for full devolution across England

·        Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2022

·        public money for public goods agricultural policy

·        creating a Great Northumberland Forest

·        guarantee the current annual budget to farmers

·        an additional 75,000 acres of trees a year

·        create new National Parks

·        UK Shared Prosperity Fund to replace EU structural funds

·        get rid of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act

·        equal Parliamentary boundaries

·        identification to vote at polling stations

·        Bring the ivory ban into force

·        We will ban keeping primates as pets

Housing and community:

·        ensure that new GP and school places are delivered ahead of people moving into new housing development

·        We will establish a £150 million Community Ownership Fund to encourage local takeovers of civic organizations or community assets that are under threat

·        Business rates relief for local newspapers

·        We intend to bring full fiber and gigabit capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025

·        . Local people will continue to have the final say on council tax

·        We will encourage a new market in long-term fixed rate mortgages which slash the cost of deposits

·        enabling councils to use developers’ contributions via the planning process to discount homes in perpetuity

·        Maintain right to buy and extend to housing association

·        extended the Help to Buy scheme from 2021 to 2023

·        implementing our ban on the sale of new leasehold homes

·        Ending no fault evictions

·        requiring one ‘lifetime’ deposit which moves with the tenant

·        Introduce a new levy to increase the proportion of recyclable plastics in packaging.

Transport and environment:

·        We will build Northern Powerhouse Rail between Leeds and Manchester

·        We will extend contactless pay-as you go ticketing to almost 200 more stations in the South East

·        We will make a £28.8 billion investment in strategic and local roads

·        We will invest £1 billion in completing a fast-charging network

·        biggest ever pothole-filling program

·        create a new £350 million Cycling Infrastructure Fund

·        Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

·        establish a new £500 million Blue Planet Fund to help protect our oceans from plastic pollution

·        Offshore wind industry will reach 40Gw by 2030

·        l invest £800 million to build the first fully deployed carbon capture storage cluster

·        invest £500 million to help energy-intensive industries move to low-carbon techniques

·        investing £9.2 billion in the energy efficiency buildings

Defense and international relations

·        introduce new legislation to tackle the vexatious legal claims that undermine our Armed Forces

·        We will reduce National Insurance contributions for employers if they employ ex-Service personnel

·        spending 2 per cent of GDP on defense

·        increase defense budget by at least 0.5 per cent above inflation every year

·        Maintain trident

·        building the new Type 31 frigates in British shipyards

·        We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years

·        create up to ten Freeport’s around the UK,

Labours abriged manifesto 2019

Economy:

·         Green Industry [Scheme] will create 1 million jobs

·         Create a Sustainable Investment Board

·         Ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to incorporate climate and environmental impacts into its forecasts

·         launch a National Transformation Fund of £400 billion

·         Rewrite the Treasury’s investment rules to ensure investment our compatible with [green] targets

·         Out of the 400 billion £250 billion will directly fund a Green Transformation Fund dedicated to renewable and low-carbon energy and transport and environmental restoration

·         will create a National Investment Bank, backed up by a network of Regional Development Banks, to provide £250 billion of lending for enterprise, infrastructure

·         Smaller loans will be available through our new Post Bank based in Post Office

·         A Local Transformation Fund in each English region will be used to fund [Local] infrastructure projects decided at a local level

·         We will introduce a windfall tax on oil companies

·         3% of GDP to be spent on research and development (R&D) by 2030

·         no increases in VAT

·         a £150 billion Social Transformation Fund to replace, upgrade and expand our schools, hospitals, care homes and council houses

·         Reverse cuts to corporation tax while keeping rates lower than in 2010.

·         Those who earn 80,000 or over will pay more national insurance and income tax

·         extend the sugar tax to milk drinks

·         £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund to transform libraries, museums and galleries across the country

·         introduce a broader ‘public interest test’ to prevent hostile takeover

·         New 45p rate for those earning over 80,000*

·         New 50P rate for those earning over 125,000*

·         Increase corporation tax to reach 21% (Small Profits Rate) and 26% (main rate)*

·         Tax capital gains at income tax rates*

·         Tax dividends at income tax rate*

·         Extend stamp duty reserve duty – paid on shares *

·         Bank Levy*

·         Increase inheritance tax*

·         introduce a second homes tax*

·         scrap Married Persons Allowance*

Regulation / State action:

·         Change the criteria a company must meet to be listed on the London Stock Exchange so that any company that fails to contribute to tackling the climate and environmental emergency is delisted.

·         We will introduce a zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes

·         Nationalize Water

·         Nationalize energy

·         14 new Regional Energy Agencies will replace the existing district network

·         establish a Foundation Industries Sector Council

·         building three new steel recycling plants

·         upgrading existing steel production sites

·         require all companies bidding for public contracts to recognize trade unions, pay suppliers on time and demonstrate equalities best practice

·         investing in three new gigafactories for electric cars

·         investing in a new plastics remanufacturing industry creating thousands of jobs

·         Labour will end the current presumption in favor of outsourcing public services and introduce a presumption in favor of insourcing

·         taking back all PFI contracts over time

·         We will provide free personal care over £100,000 - a lifetime cap on personal contributions to care costs

·         end 15-minute care visits

·         We will recruit nearly 150,000 additional early years staff

·         We will constrain the right of the Prime Minister to suppress publication of committee reports

·         Bring Rubbish collection back to local council control

·         Bring management of local leisure centers back under local council control

·         Royal Mail back into public ownership

·         creating a publicly owned Post Bank

·         Create a Co-operative Development Agency a mission to double the size of the co-operative sector.

·         clearer rules on who is fit and proper to own or run TV and radio stations

·         We will take action to address the monopolistic hold the tech giants have on advertising revenues

·         We will review the ‘fit and proper person test’ for club owners and director

·         Establish accredited football supporters’ trusts to be able to appoint and remove at least two club directors and purchase shares when clubs change hands

·         introduce a new, unified Workers’ Protection Agency to enforce workplace rights

·         amend the Companies Act, requiring companies to priorities long-term growth

·         We will require one-third of boards to be reserved for elected worker-directors

·         new Department for Women and Equalities

·         Labour will deliver free full-fiber broadband to all by 2030

·         new Department for Housing

·         set up a new English Sovereign Land Trust, with powers to buy land more cheaply for low-cost housing

·         Nationalize buses

·         Nationalize railways

Energy & Housing:

·         We will deliver nearly 90% of electricity and 50% of heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.

·         build:  7,000 new offshore wind turbines

·         Build 2,000 new onshore wind turbines

·         Enough solar panels to cover 22,000 football pitches

·         Some (?) nuclear power stations

·         We will upgrade most homes to the highest energy-efficiency standards

·         Permanently ban fracking

·         introduce a Climate and Environment Emergency Bill setting out in law robust, binding new [environmental] standards

·         We will ban fast-food restaurants near schools

·         We will introduce a £1 billion Fire Safety Fund to fit sprinklers and other fire safety measures in all high-rise buildings

·         We will use public land to build this housing

·         ‘use it or lose it’ taxes on stalled housing developments

·         By the end of the Parliament we will be building at an annual rate of at least 150,000 council and social homes

·         with 100,000 of these built by councils for social rent

·         We will end the conversion of office blocks to homes that sidestep planning permission

·         ending the right to buy

Employment & Childcare

·         Support energy workers guarantee them retraining and a new, unionised job on equivalent terms and conditions.

·         launch a Climate Apprenticeship program

·         employers will be expected to allocate 25% of the funds in their Apprenticeship Levy accounts to training Climate

·         In the public sector, we will enforce maximum pay ratios of 20:1.

·         year-on-year above-inflation public sector pay rises, starting with a 5% increase

·         We will introduce a training bursary for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

·         provide free education for everyone throughout their lives

·         Build Sure Start Plus, with enough centers to provide a genuinely universal

·         Build 1000 new sure start centers

·         paid maternity leave to 12 months

·         all 2 to 4 year-olds will be entitled to 30 hours of free preschool education per week

·         Subsidies additional hours of 2-4 year old care

·         free training to the childcare workforce to be trained to graduate level

·         Right to accrue paid time off for education and training.

·         Real Living Wage of at least £10 per hour for all workers aged 16 and over

·         requiring large companies to set up Inclusive Ownership Funds

·         collective income protection insurance schemes for the self employed

·         establishing a Ministry for Employment Rights

·         sectoral collective bargaining across the economy

·         full rights from day one on the job\

·         creating a single status of ‘worker’ for everyone apart from those genuinely self-employed in business on their own account

·         legal right to collective consultation on the implementation of new technology in workplaces

·         Banning zero-hour contracts

·         Doubling paternity leave from two weeks to four

·         Introducing four new bank holidays

·         Banning unpaid internships

·         Remove unnecessary restrictions on industrial action

·         Repeal anti-trade union legislation including the Trade Union Act 2016

·         reduce average full-time weekly working hours to 32 across the economy

·         Require all employers with over 250 employees to obtain government certification on gender equality

·         including new discount homes with prices linked to local incomes

·         We will introduce a levy on overseas companies buying housing

·         new powers to tax properties empty for over a year

·         end the sale of new leasehold properties

·         give leaseholders the right to buy their freehold at a price they can afford

·         Introduce rent controls

·         End no fault eviction

·         fund new renters’ unions in every part of the country

Travel & Environment

·         Labour will introduce free bus travel for under-25s

·         reinstating the 3,000 bus routes

·         We will implement a full, rolling program of  rail electrification

·         We will consult with local communities to reopen branch lines

·         End combustion engine sales by 2030

·         setting national minimum standards of safety and accessibility for Taxies

·         Introduce a new Clean Air Act

·         Introduce a vehicle scrappage scheme

·         extra £5.6 billion in funding to improve the standard of flood defenses

·         set legally binding targets to drive the restoration of species and habitats

·         create new National Parks

·         We will set maximum sustainable yields for all shared fish stocks

Welfare & local community:

·         A new right to food – remove the need for food banks within 3 year

·         stopping bank branch closures

·         ,banning ATM charges

·         creating a publicly owned Post Bank

·         We will protect free TV licenses for over-75s

·         new Gambling Act fit for the digital age, establishing gambling limits

·         levy for problem gambling funding and mechanisms for consumer compensations

·         eradicate in-work poverty

·         Including a pilot of Universal Basic Income.

·         annual income assessments for those on Universal Credit

·         £20 million to support the survivors of modern slavery, people trafficking and domestic violence

·         Scrap universal credit

·         Create a welfare system which guarantees a minimum standard of living

·         End sanctions

·         scrapping the benefit cap and the two child limit

·         Labour will end the digital barrier and offer telephone, face-to face and outreach support

·         We will recruit 5,000 additional welfare advisors

·         scrapping the bedroom tax

·         increasing the Local Housing Allowance

·         End PIP assessment

·         Increase Employment and Support Allowance by £30 per week for those in the work-related activity group

·         Raise the basic rate of support for children with disabilities to the level of Child Tax Credits

·         Keep the retirement age at 66

·         We will maintain the ‘triple lock’ and guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment, free TV licenses and free bus passes as universal benefits

·         We will support those who look after others, increasing the Career’s Allowance to the level of the Jobseeker’s Allowance

Health and social care

·         We will increase expenditure across the health sector by an average 4.3% a year

·         end patient charges - abolish prescription charges

·         Labour will end and reverse privatisation in the NHS

·         We will repeal the Health and Social Care Act

·         bring subsidiary companies back in-house

·         free annual NHS dental check-ups

·         end mixed-sex wards

·         NHS Forest of one million trees

·         NHS fleet cars and hybrid ambulances

·         free hospital parking for patients, staff and visitors

·         an additional £1.6 billion a year to ensure new standards for mental health

·         We will invest £2 billion to modernize hospital facilities and end the use of inappropriate, out-of-area placements.

·         £845 million on children and adolescent mental health services

·         We will establish a network of open access mental health hubs

·         recruit almost 3,500 qualified counsellors

·         guarantee every child access to school counsellors

·         invest more than £1 billion in public health and recruit 4,500 more health visitors and school nurses

·         build a comprehensive National Care Service for England

·         Create a National Youth Service

·         guarantee every young person has access to local, high-quality youth work

·         Labour will deliver free full-fiber broadband to all by 2030

·         end rough sleeping within five years

·         We will make available 8,000 additional homes for people with a history of rough sleeping

·         raising the Local Housing Allowance

·         additional £1 billion a year for councils’ homelessness services 

Education

·         Maximum class sizes of 30 for all primary school children.

·         fund more non-contact time for teachers to prepare and plan

·         scrapping Key Stage 1

·         Scrap 2 SATs

·         Arts Pupil Premium to fund arts education for every primary school child

·         bringing free schools and academies back under control

·         We will replace Ofsted

·         A new teacher supply service

·         free school meals for all primary school children

·         Bring back the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and national pay settlements for teachers.

·         close the tax loopholes used by private schools

·         bringing back the Education Maintenance Allowance

·         Six years training at Levels 4-6, with maintenance grants for disadvantaged learners

·         Restore funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages

·         Create a single national system of regulation that functions for education as our NHS does for healthcare provision

·         abolish tuition fees

·         bring back maintenance grants

Crime & Immigration:

·         guarantee young people’s access to youth worker

·         recruit 22,000 more frontline officers

·         Proportionate stop-and-search based on intelligence

·         We will introduce minimum legal standards of service for all victims of crime

·         aim of introducing an emergency alert system

·         restore total prison officer numbers to 2010 levels

·         Introduce a presumption against prison sentences of six months or less for non-violent and non-sexual offences

·         Renationalize probation

·         restore all early legal aid advice

·         recruit hundreds of new community lawyers

·         prohibit ppl accused of domestic violence from cross-examination by their abuser

·         introduce a no-fault divorce procedure

·         Public inquiries into blacklisting

·         Public inquiries into  Orgreave

·         We will require judicial warrants for undercover operations

·         scrap the 2014 Immigration Act

·         end indefinite detention

·         close Yarl’s Wood and Brook House immigration detention center

·         end the minimum income requirements for family and spousal visas

·         resume rescue missions in the Mediterranean

·         establish safe and legal routes for asylum seekers

Constitutional reform & Brexit & International relationship

·         end the hereditary principle in the House of Lords

·         elected Senate of the Nations and Regions

·         repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

·         We will maintain 650 constituencies

·         Reduce voting age to 16

·         giving full voting rights to all UK residents

·         banning donations from tax avoiders and tax evaders

·         stop MPs from taking paid second jobs

·         extending Freedom of Information rules to cover private providers of public services

·         Negotiate new deal

·         A permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union

·         Outside the single market but maintain Close alignment with the Single Market

·         Continued participation in EU agencies and funding programs

·         legally binding referendum alongside the option of remaining in the EU

·         granting EU nationals the automatic right to continue living and working in the UK

·         All military action will require parliamentary approval

·         Conduct an audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy

·          Invest an additional £400 million in our diplomatic capacity

·         Recognize the rights of the people of Western Sahara.

·         suspend the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia and Israel

·         recognize the state of Palestine

·         e renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent

·         Labor’s commitment to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense

·         creating a representative body for the armed forces, akin to the Police Federation

·         We will also ensure that black and Asian soldiers who fought in Britain’s colonial armies receive a full apology and explore ways to compensate them for the discriminatory demob payments they received

·         Spend 0.7% of GDP on International development

·         Provide a top-up of new and additional spending on international climate finance to bring the total to £4 billion a year

Those pledges with an * are taken from Funding real change not the manifesto