Labour Party - Labour 2015 Manifesto pledges lyrics

Labour will: Economy cut the deficit every year and balance the books as soon as possible in the next Parliament reverse the 50p tax cut so that the top one per cent pay a little more to help get the deficit down not increase the basic or higher rates of Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT cut and then freeze business rates and maintain the most competitive corporate tax rates in the G7 abolish non dom status increase the National Minimum Wage to more than £8 an hour by October 2019 and introduce Make Work Pay contracts to provide tax rebates to firms becoming Living Wage employers ban exploitative zero-hours contracts guarantee an apprenticeship for every school leaver who attains the grades and require any firm that gets a large government contract to offer apprenticeships reduce tuition fees to £6,000 a year freeze energy bills until 2017 and give the regulator the power to cut bills this winter introduce a British Investment Bank and support a network of regional banks. Health/Education invest £2.5 billion more than the Conservatives to recruit 8,000 more GPs, 20,000 more nurses and 3,000 more midwives guarantee GP appointments within 48 hours and cancer tests within one week join up services from home to hospital, with a single point of contact for all who need it give mental health the same priority as physical health, with a new right to access talking therapies repeal the Government's privatisation plans, cap profits and put the right values back at the heart of the NHS end time-limited 15 minute social care visits and recruit 5,000 new home-care workers to support people in their home introduce a new gold-standard Technical Baccalaureate for 16 to-18-year olds protect the entire education budget from early years through to post-16 education guarantee all teachers in state schools will be qualified appoint Directors of School Standards to drive up standards in every area cap cla** sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds ensure all young people study English and Maths to age 18 Social/Welfare extend free childcare from 15 to 25 hours for working parents of three and four-year-olds, and ensure all primary schools guarantee access to wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm double paternity leave from two to four weeks and increase paternity pay by more than £100 a week ensure at least 200,000 new homes a year are built by 2020, with first priority for local first time buyers provide security for renters by guaranteeing three-year tenancies with a ceiling on excessive rent rises introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, paid for by a Bank Bonus Tax abolish the Bedroom Tax ensure migrants will not be able to claim benefits until they have lived here for at least two years make it illegal for employers to undercut wages by exploiting workers protect neighbourhood policing by safeguarding over 10,000 frontline police officers over the next three years give football fans a voice in club boardrooms Constitutional/Legal Reform set up a people-led Constitutional Convention to determine the future of UK's governance replace the House of Lords with a Senate of the Nations and Regions pa** an English Devolution Act, handing £30 billion of resources and powers to our great English city and county regions give new powers for communities to shape their high streets, including power over payday lenders and the number of fixed-odds betting terminals meet our promises to devolve further powers to Scotland and Wales give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote create a statutory register of lobbyists ban MPs from holding paid directorships and consultancies require large companies to publish their gender pay gap implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry Defence/International conduct a Strategic Defence and Security Review in the first year of government return Britain to a leadership role in Europe, but reform the EU so that it works for Britain guarantee no powers will be transferred to Brussels without an in/out referendum appoint an International LGBT Rights Envoy and a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom outlaw discrimination against and abuse of members of the Armed Forces enshrine the Military Covenant in the NHS Constitution push for global targets to tackle inequality and promote human rights establish a Centre for Universal Health Coverage push for an ambitious target in Paris to get to goal of net zero global emissions in the second half of this century