Last night, Labour’s manifesto was leaked to the Daily Mirror and The Telegraph.
There are disputes about who was responsible for this, as the manifesto was not due to be released in full until next week. Former Corbyn press officer Matt Zarb-Cousin accused staff at Labour HQ, while others speculated that the leak might have been intentional to give the party more coverage.
The manifesto, however, is not yet complete nor have the contents made available to the public been signed off on yet by party officials. Labour’s executive will meet with the Shadow Cabinet, as well as representatives the National Policy Forum, today to discuss the contents of the manifesto. Policy areas will be debated and changed before they can be made official. This means there could be changes to what we’ve seen so far.
But here are the highlights:
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Scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants
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Rule out making “false promises” on immigration
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Build at least 100,000 council houses by 2022
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Ensure that of new houses built under Labour, 4,000 go to homeless peopleM
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Reverse the privatisation of Royal Mail
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Repeal the Trade Union Act and bring in sectoral collective bargaining
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Ensure all workers have the right to trade union representation
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End benefit sanctions and scrap the Bedroom Tax
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A promise that al the manifesto commitments are “fully costed”
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4 Responses to “Labour manifesto leak: the highlights”
Fred
In other words,
Massive borrowing, trade union power, uncontrolled immigration, no nuclear deterrent, state control of people’s lives.
Yep, that’s a real vote winner! Just like it was in 1983.
Alma
A lot of work according to the manifesto! Trying to move the world!
Fred
Angela Rayner, Shadow Education Secretary, left school at 16, pregnant, with no qualifications, worked in a care home, and now wants to be in charge of education in the UK. Interviewed on LBC, can’t even bring a crib sheet of the figures to refer to.
This is the quality of the people in the Labour Party: unqualified, incompetent, dangerous.
Frank
She’s a lot better than Osbourne, with his Oxford University and Bullingdon club education, turned out to be with his history of Omnishambles budgets.