Labour Manifesto 2019

CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY JEREMY CORBYN 6
A GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 9

ECONOMY AND ENERGY 11
TRANSPORT 19
ENVIRONMENT 22
ANIMAL WELFARE 25
REBUILD OUR PUBLIC SERVICES 27

FUNDING 29
NHS AND SOCIAL CARE 31
NATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE 37
POLICE AND SECURITY 42
JUSTICE 46
COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 49
FIRE AND RESCUE 52
DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT 53
TACKLE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY 57

WORK 59
WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 65
MIGRATION 70
SOCIAL SECURITY 72
HOUSING 77
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES 81
THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT 87

A NEW INTERNATIONALISM 93
EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY 97
DEFENCE AND SECURITY 100
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 103
FOREWORD
This election will shape our country for We can do better than this. How can
a generation. It is your opportunity to it be right that in the fifth richest
transform our country, so that it works country in the world, people’s living
not just for a few, but for all of us. It standards are going backwards and life
is a chance to deliver the real change expectancy is stalling?
Britain needs. This manifesto sets out
The Conservative Government is failing.
how a Labour government will do that.
It has failed on the economy, on the
Some people say this is the Brexit climate crisis, on investment for the
election. But it’s also the climate future, on public services and on Brexit.
election, the investment election, the It is simply not working for most people.
NHS election, the living standards
A Labour government will unlock the
election, the education election, the
potential of all those held back for too
poverty election, the fair taxes election.
long. Labour will be on your side.
Above all, it’s the change election.
Labour will rewrite the rules of the
It’s time to take on the vested interests
economy, so that it works for everyone.
holding people back. The last decade
We will rebuild our public services, by
has seen a wealth grab by a privileged
taxing those at the top to properly fund
few, supported by the Conservatives,
the services we all rely on.
at the expense of the majority. The
big polluters, financial speculators and We will launch the largest-scale
corporate tax-dodgers have had a free investment programme in modern
ride for too long. times to fund the jobs and industries of
the future, so that no one is held back
Labour will build a fairer Britain that
and no community left behind. This is a
cares for all, where wealth and power
fully costed programme to upgrade our
are shared.
economy and transform our country.
I am not prepared to continue to see
We will kick-start a Green Industrial
more families without a proper home
Revolution to tackle the climate
and more people queuing at food banks
emergency by shifting to renewable
or sleeping rough on the streets.
energy, investing in rail and electric
I am not prepared to put up cars, and making housing energy-
with communities blighted by lack efficient, to reduce fuel poverty and
of investment, endless cuts to vital excess winter deaths.
services and millions struggling to
make ends meet, while tax cuts are
handed to the richest.
6 IT’S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE

THE FUTURE IS OURS
TO MAKE.
IT’S TIME FOR REAL
CHANGE – FOR THE MANY,
NOT THE FEW. TOGETHER,
WE CAN DELIVER IT.
We will create a million climate jobs We will end food bank Britain, and lift
in every region and nation of the children and pensioners out of poverty.
UK – good, skilled jobs that will bring
We will bring in a Real Living Wage of
prosperity back to parts of our country
at least £10 per hour for all workers
neglected for too long.
– with equal rights at work from day
We will bring rail, mail, water and energy one on the job. We will end insecurity
into public ownership to end the great and exploitation by ending zero-hours
privatisation rip-off and save you contracts and strengthening trade
money on your fares and bills. union rights.
We will deliver full-fibre broadband Labour will create a National Education

free to everybody in every home in Service to provide support and
our country by creating a new public opportunity throughout your life: from
service, boosting the economy, Sure Start centres to top-quality early
connecting communities and putting years education; well-funded schools
money back in your pocket. with lower class sizes to free university
FOREWORD 7
tuition with no fees; and free lifelong power in the hands of the many. Boris
learning, giving you the chance to Johnson’s Conservatives will look after
reskill throughout your life. the privileged few.
Labour will give the NHS the funding This manifesto offers the chance of
it needs, end privatisation, and never real change for every generation and
let our health service be up for grabs in every community. When Labour wins,
any trade negotiation. We’ll expand our the nurse wins, the pensioner wins, the
NHS to offer free prescriptions for all student wins, the office worker wins, the
and free basic dentistry, building on its engineer wins. We all win.
founding principles.
We can and we must do better
We will end the social care crisis that as a country.
has left 1.5 million elderly people
This is our last chance to tackle
without the care they need. Labour will
the climate emergency.
fund free personal care for older people
and extra care packages. The future is ours to make. It’s time for
real change – for the many, not the few.
I’m really worried by the rise in crime
Together, we can deliver it.
– and the fact that the most serious
violent crime has risen even further. We
will reverse a decade of cuts to police
and vital public services that have
shown you simply can’t keep people Jeremy Corbyn
safe on the cheap. Leader of the Labour Party
Labour will protect our security at home

and abroad. After years of failed foreign
interventions and wars, we will end the
‘bomb first, talk later’ approach and
instead have a foreign policy based on This manifesto deals both with Labour’s
policies which apply across the United
peace, justice and human rights.
Kingdom and, where responsibilities
And we will get Brexit sorted in six have been devolved, it also sets out
our policies for England.
months by giving people the final
say – with a choice between a sensible In devolved areas such as health,
leave deal or remain. We will implement education and local government,
whatever the British people decide. Labour’s detailed policies for
Scotland and Wales are set out
The choice could not be clearer at this in the manifestos published by
election. Labour will put wealth and our Welsh and Scottish parties.

A GREEN
INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
11 ECONOMY AND ENERGY
19 TRANSPORT
22 ENVIRONMENT
25 ANIMAL WELFARE
9
ECONOMY AND ENERGY
This election is We must confront this change while dealing with
about the crisis the growing inequality and insecurity in Britain.
of living standards Labour led the UK Parliament in declaring a climate
and the climate and environmental emergency. The next Labour
and environmental government will lead the world in fighting it, with a
emergency. Whether plan to drive up living standards by transforming our
we are ready or not, economy into one low in carbon, rich in good jobs,
we stand on the brink radically fairer and more democratic.
of unstoppable change.
The climate crisis ties us all into a common fate. This
election is our best hope to protect future generations
from an uninhabitable planet. The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change has said we need to cut
global emissions in half by 2030 to have a chance of
keeping global heating within safe limits – that means
acting now, and acting decisively.
The Tories wasted a decade serving the interests of

big polluters. Labour will use the crucial next decade
to act. The Tories slashed support for renewable
energy while pushing through dangerous fracking.

Now Britain is decades off course on extensive skills are passed on to
vital emissions targets. the next generation of workers.
That’s why Labour will kick-start a Green We will show the world how prioritising
Industrial Revolution that will create one sustainability will not only deliver
million jobs in the UK to transform our immediate improvements to everyone’s
industry, energy, transport, agriculture lives but also offer humanity a pathway
and our buildings, while restoring to a more equitable and enlightened
nature. Our Green New Deal aims to economy: one that protects our
achieve the substantial majority of our environment, reins in corporate power,
emissions reductions by 2030 in a way revitalises democracy, unites our
that is evidence-based, just and that communities, builds international
delivers an economy that serves the solidarity and promises a better quality
interests of the many, not the few. of life for all. The scale of the challenge
requires nothing less.
Just as the original Industrial Revolution
brought industry, jobs and pride to Tackling the destruction of our planet
our towns, Labour’s world-leading is a question of justice – for the
Green Industrial Revolution will rebuild communities at home and abroad
them, with more rewarding, well-paid who are most affected by it and
jobs, lower energy bills and whole for our children who will bear the
new industries to revive parts of our consequences if we don’t. Social justice
country that have been neglected for will define Labour’s approach. We will
too long. For some, industrial transition make sure that the costs of the green
has become a byword for devastation, transition fall fairly and are mostly
because successive Conservative borne by the wealthy and those most
governments were content to sit back responsible for the problem.
and leave the fate of whole industries
2019 saw the blossoming of a global
and communities at the mercy of
movement calling on politicians to
market forces. A Labour government
wake up and act on the climate and
will never let that happen.
environmental emergency. Labour
We will work in partnership with the welcomed that movement and, as a
workforce and their trade unions government in waiting, we have turned
in every sector of our economy, so its demands into detailed, credible
that they lead the transition in their plans for real change.
industries, creating new, good-quality
jobs and making sure that their

Investment be mandated to lend in line with our
mission to decarbonise our economy
Delivering the far-reaching change
while increasing productivity and
needed to tackle the climate and
creating good jobs across the country.
environmental emergency will require a
As well as large-scale national and
full mobilisation of national resources,
regional projects, smaller loans will
both public and private.
be available through our new Post
Labour will create a Sustainable Bank based in Post Office branches,
Investment Board to bring together enabling thousands of bottom-up
the Chancellor, Business Secretary and transformational changes by start-ups,
Bank of England Governor to oversee, small businesses, local co-operatives
co-ordinate and bring forward this and community projects in towns and
investment – involving trade unions villages up and down the country.
and business. We will ask the Office for
We will make sure that the UK’s
Budget Responsibility to incorporate
financial sector is helping to tackle the
climate and environmental impacts
emergency rather than fuelling it. We
into its forecasts so that the cost of not
will do this by improving the fitness
acting will be factored into every
of our financial authorities to mobilise
fiscal decision.
green investment and by giving them
The cost of not acting is far greater powers to manage the risk to financial
than the cost of acting. We will launch stability posed by short-sighted
a National Transformation Fund of investment in polluting assets.
£400 billion and rewrite the Treasury’s
Just 100 companies globally are
investment rules to guarantee that
responsible for the majority of carbon
every penny spent is compatible with
emissions. We won’t be afraid to tackle
our climate and environmental targets
this wanton corporate destruction by
– and that the costs of not acting are
taking on the powerful interests that are
fully accounted for too. Of this, £250
causing climate change. We will change
billion will directly fund the transition
the criteria a company must meet to be
through a Green Transformation Fund
listed on the London Stock Exchange
dedicated to renewable and low-carbon
so that any company that fails to
energy and transport, biodiversity and
contribute to tackling the climate and
environmental restoration.
environmental emergency is delisted.
We will create a National Investment
Bank, backed up by a network of
Regional Development Banks, to
provide £250 billion of lending
for enterprise, infrastructure and
innovation over 10 years. They will

Levelling Up Across the Country arrangements. They will set priorities for
lending, giving every region and nation
Many parts of Britain would need
a new and powerful lever to rebuild their
this investment even without a climate
economy on their own terms.
and environmental emergency. Years
of under-investment and neglect We will shift the political centre
by Westminster have left too many of gravity by placing the National
communities feeling powerless and Transformation Fund Unit, a key part of
too many areas left behind with low- the Treasury, in the North of England
quality jobs, weak productivity and and build up the regional offices of
slow growth. government in each of the nine English
regions to co-ordinate government
The climate and environmental
policies at the regional level, as well as
emergency is a chance to unite the
ensuring a regional voice in Whitehall.
country to face this common challenge
by mobilising all our national resources,
both financial and human. But we will
Energy
only succeed by ensuring that everyone
shares in the benefits. Labour will make Energy use in buildings accounts for
sure that investment is spread evenly 56% of the UK’s total emissions, making
across the whole country and will give it the single most polluting sector. We
powers and funding to every region and will develop the recommendations
nation of the UK. of our ‘30 by 2030’ report to put the
UK on track for a net-zero-carbon
We will bring about a radical
energy system within the 2030s – and
decentralisation of power in Britain so
go faster if credible pathways can
that local people and communities are
be found. We will deliver nearly 90%
given far greater control over their own
of electricity and 50% of heat from
lives and prospects.
renewable and low-carbon sources
A Local Transformation Fund in each by 2030.
English region will be used exclusively
We will build:
to fund infrastructure projects decided
at a local level, as will devolved • 7,000 new offshore wind turbines
governments in Wales, Scotland
• 2,000 new onshore wind turbines
and Northern Ireland. Our Regional
Development Banks will be governed • Enough solar panels to cover 22,000
by boards made up of key local football pitches.
stakeholders such as local chambers of
• New nuclear power needed for energy
commerce, trade unions and councillors
security.
– with Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland empowered to make similar

We will trial and expand tidal energy Ownership
and invest to reduce the costs of
We will not achieve the promise of a fair
renewable and low-carbon hydrogen
and sustainable economy if we repeat
production. We will upgrade almost
the mistakes of the carbon era, when
all of the UK’s 27 million homes to the
the capture of a natural resource for
highest energy-efficiency standards,
private profit created a vastly unequal
reducing the average household energy
and polluting economy dominated by
bill by £417 per household per year by
powerful vested interests.
2030 and eliminating fuel poverty. We
will introduce a zero-carbon homes It’s not just carbon. From the
standard for all new homes. depletion of fish stocks to the
burning of the Amazon, profit has
As part of heat decarbonisation, we will
proved a poor regulator for use of
roll out technologies like heat pumps,
our natural resources.
solar hot water and hydrogen, and
invest in district heat networks using Whether it is the trillions of litres of
waste heat. water lost through leakages, barriers to
renewable energy connecting to the
To balance the grid, we will expand
grid or the billions of pounds of bill-
power storage and invest in grid
payers’ money being siphoned off in
enhancements and interconnectors.
dividends to wealthy shareholders,
We will expand distributed and Tory privatisation of our utilities has
community energy, and immediately been a disaster for both our planet and
and permanently ban fracking. our wallets.
We will support energy workers We will put people and planet before
through transition and guarantee them profit by bringing our energy and
retraining and a new, unionised job on water systems into democratic public
equivalent terms and conditions. ownership. In public hands, energy and
water will be treated as rights rather than
We will introduce a windfall tax on oil
commodities, with any surplus reinvested
companies, so that the companies that
or used to reduce bills. Communities
knowingly damaged our climate will
themselves will decide, because utilities
help cover the costs. We will provide a
won’t be run from Whitehall but by
strategy to safeguard the people, jobs
service-users and workers.
and skills that depend on the offshore
oil and gas industry. Public ownership will secure democratic
control over nationally strategic
infrastructure and provide collective
stewardship for key natural resources.

In the case of energy, it will also help Whenever public money is invested
deliver Labour’s ambitious emissions in an energy generation project, the
targets. Whereas private network public sector will take a stake and return
companies have failed to upgrade the profits to the public.
grid at the speed and scale needed,
publicly owned networks will accelerate
and co-ordinate investment to connect Industry and Innovation
renewable and low-carbon energy while
Averting climate catastrophe offers
working with energy unions to support
huge economic opportunities.
energy workers through the transition.
But Britain will only benefit from
Under Labour’s plans: a Green Industrial Revolution with
the right policies.
• A new UK National Energy Agency will
own and maintain the national grid Over the past three decades, Britain has
infrastructure and oversee the delivery reduced its emissions at the expense
of our decarbonisation targets. of domestic industry by offshoring
production. This is an accounting trick,
• 14 new Regional Energy Agencies
not a solution. It does not protect the
will replace the existing district
climate, is unfair to other countries
network operators and hold statutory
and it damages jobs and communities
responsibility for decarbonising
at home.
electricity and heat and reducing
fuel poverty. Labour will take full responsibility for our
carbon footprint instead of passing the
• The supply arms of the Big Six energy
buck. We will instruct the Committee
companies will be brought into public
on Climate Change to assess the
ownership where they will continue to
emissions the UK imports as well as
supply households with energy while
those it produces, and recommend
helping them to reduce their
policies to tackle them, including making
energy demands.
UK industry the greenest in the world.
The Conservatives allowed the
The Conservatives have presided over a
proceeds of North Sea oil to be
lost decade of productivity and allowed
squandered on tax cuts for the richest
Britain to fall behind in the green
and captured in profits for the few,
technologies of the future. Labour will
instead of investing them in our future.
make sure this never happens again.
We now stand at an even greater
crossroads in the development of our Targeted science, research and
national economy. Under Labour, our innovation will be crucial to tackling the
green future will be owned by all of us. climate crisis, dealing with the plastic

waste filling our oceans and addressing sectors and supply chains and creates
other societal challenges, such as hundreds of thousands of good,
an ageing population and antibiotic unionised jobs here at home.
resistance. As part of our plan to usher
We will use the power of public
in a Green Industrial Revolution, Labour
procurement to strengthen local jobs
will create an innovation nation, setting
and supply chains and will require all
a target for 3% of GDP to be spent on
companies bidding for public contracts
research and development (R&D) by
to recognise trade unions, pay suppliers
2030. We will achieve this target by
on time and demonstrate equalities
increasing direct support for R&D and
best practice.
reforming the innovation ecosystem to
better ‘crowd in’ private investment. As we transition, we will ensure the UK’s
automotive sector isn’t left behind by
We will establish a Foundation
the electric revolution by investing in
Industries Sector Council to provide
three new gigafactories and four metal
a clean and long-term future for our
reprocessing plants. By supporting
existing heavy industries like steel
UK-made electrical steel we will ensure
and glass and fund R&D into newer
robust support for an end to end UK
technologies like hydrogen and carbon
supply chain. We’ll also take on the
capture and storage.
global plastics crisis by investing in a
A thriving steel industry will be vital new plastics remanufacturing industry
to the Green Industrial Revolution. creating thousands of jobs, ending
Labour will support our steel through exports of plastic waste and reducing
public procurement, taking action on our contribution to ocean pollution.
industrial energy prices, exempting new
Labour’s progressive trade strategy will
capital from business rates, investing
be aligned with our industrial strategy
in R&D, building three new steel
to help develop the industrial base
recycling plants and upgrading existing
needed to deliver high-quality exports
production sites.
and the decent jobs that go with them.
We will ensure that new technologies Labour will champion exports from
aren’t just invented here, but are the environmental goods and services
engineered, manufactured and sector, building on the 300,000 jobs
exported from here. We will put that the sector already sustains. We
British innovation at the heart of will uphold the highest environmental
our procurement to support local and social regulations in all our trade
sourcing and reshoring, so that every relations, and will never downgrade
investment we make strengthens standards as ‘barriers’ to trade.
our manufacturing and engineering

Skills will be topped up with any surplus
raised through Inclusive Ownership
Our Green Industrial Revolution will
Funds and made accessible to non-
create at least one million well-paid,
levy-paying businesses.
unionised jobs in the UK. We will train
people in the skills they need to access Targeted bursaries will be available to
these jobs of the future. women, BAME people, care leavers,
ex-armed forces personnel, and people
Britain’s skills crisis has grown under
with disabilities to encourage them to
the Tories. The Apprenticeship Levy
take up climate apprenticeships – the
has been beset by problems, leaving
STEM of the future.
employers paying into a training budget
they are unable to spend. And it is We will further help small businesses
not delivering for small businesses. by increasing the amount that can
We cannot afford to carry on like this. be transferred to non-levy-paying
employers to 50% and introducing
Labour will make it easier for employers
an online matching service to help
to spend the levy by allowing it to be
levy-paying businesses find smaller
used for a wider range of accredited
businesses to transfer their funds to.
training, in line with guidelines set by
the Institute for Apprenticeships and
Technical Education and government’s
wider priorities for the economy.
We will launch a Climate Apprenticeship

programme to enable employers to
develop the skills needed to lead the
world in clean technology.
Under this programme, employers

will be expected to allocate 25% of
the funds in their Apprenticeship
Levy accounts to training Climate
Apprentices. These funds can be spent
directly or allocated to a ring-fenced
Climate Apprenticeship Fund, which

TRANSPORT
Labour will build a Cutting emissions will drive our transport policies. We
sustainable, affordable, will review public expenditure on transport to ensure
accessible and integrated that it promotes environmental sustainability and
transport system, contributes to decarbonisation.
founded on the principle
Bus services have been devastated by the
that transport is an
Conservatives, despite carrying more people than any
essential public service.
other mode of public transport. Women are especially
dependent on buses, which also provide a lifeline
for both older and younger people and for many
economically disadvantaged groups.
Labour will ensure that councils can improve bus

services by regulating and taking public ownership
of bus networks, and we will give them resources
and full legal powers to achieve this cost-effectively,
thereby ending the race to the bottom in working
conditions for bus workers. Where councils take control
of their buses, Labour will introduce free bus travel for
under-25s. We will increase and expand local services,

reinstating the 3,000 routes that have deliver rail electrification and expansion
been cut, particularly hitting rural across the whole country, including in
communities. Wales. We will ensure that these major
infrastructure projects are a model
Labour will deliver improvements for
of good employment practice and
rail passengers by bringing our railways
pay due regard to the environmental
back into public ownership, using
impact.
options including franchise expiry. This
will enable us to make fares simpler and We will promote the use of rail freight
more affordable, rebuild the fragmented in order to reduce carbon emissions, air
railways as a nationally integrated pollutants and congestion on the roads
public service, cut the wastage of and expand the provision of publicly
private profit, improve accessibility for owned rail freight services.
disabled people, ensure safe staffing
We will increase the funding available
levels and end driver-only operation.
for cycling and walking. We will bring
Our publicly owned rail company together transport and land-use
will steer network planning and planning to create towns and cities
investments. It will co-ordinate in which walking and cycling are the
mainline upgrades, resignalling, best choice: safe, accessible, healthy,
rolling stock replacement and major efficient, economical and pollution-
projects. We will implement a full, free. We will help children’s health and
rolling programme of electrification. well-being by ensuring street designs
Our model will ensure continuity of provide freedom for physically active
skills, jobs and supply chain capacity outdoor play and by introducing
to reduce costs, improve productivity measures to ensure the zones around
and support the economic benefits of our schools are safer, with cleaner air.
Labour’s Green Industrial Revolution.
Our transport programme is focused on
We will introduce a long-term creating better, publicly accessible local
investment plan including delivering transport systems. By improving public
Crossrail for the North as part of transport, Labour will help people to
improved connectivity across the become less reliant on their cars, for our
northern regions. We will consult with better health, for a cleaner environment
local communities to reopen branch and to improve quality of life in our
lines. We will also unlock capacity towns and cities. The Conservatives
and extend high-speed rail networks have committed to ending new sales of
nationwide by completing the full combustion engine vehicles by 2040.
HS2 route to Scotland, taking full Labour will aim for 2030.
account of the environmental impacts
We will position the UK at the forefront
of different route options. We will
of the development and manufacture

of ultra-low emission vehicles and will
support their sale. We will invest in
electric vehicle charging infrastructure
and in electric community car clubs.
We will accelerate the transition of our
public sector car fleets and our public
buses to zero-emissions vehicles.
We will reform taxi and private hire

services, including a review of licensing
authority jurisdictions, setting national
minimum standards of safety and
accessibility and updating regulations
to keep pace with technological change
and to close loopholes to ensure a level
playing field.
We will adopt an ambitious

Vision Zero approach to UK road
safety, striving for zero deaths and
serious injuries. Labour will invest
to make our neglected local roads,
pavements and cycleways safer for
the everyday journeys of both drivers
and vulnerable road users. We will
review all tolled crossings.
Labour recognises the Davies

Commission’s assessment of pressures
on airport capacity in the South East.
Any expansion of airports must pass
our tests on air quality, noise pollution,
climate change obligations and
countrywide benefits. We will examine
fiscal and regulatory options to ensure
a response to the climate crisis in a way
that is fair to consumers and protects
the economy.
We will take action to end nationality-

based discrimination in seafarer pay.

ENVIRONMENT
A Labour government’s We are facing a climate and environment emergency,
Green Industrial and unlike the Tories we will not trade our environment
Revolution is in pursuit of reckless trade agreements.
complemented by
Labour will review and improve protected area
our Plan for Nature.
designations, from National Parks to local nature
Our commitments
reserves and urban green spaces.
to ecosystem repair
and environmental We will introduce a Climate and Environment
protections work hand Emergency Bill setting out in law robust, binding
in hand with sustainable new standards for decarbonisation, nature recovery,
jobs and industries, and environmental quality and habitats and species
social justice. protection.
We will maintain and continuously improve the

existing EU standards of environmental regulation.
A Healthy Environment
Our polluted air contributes to over 40,000 premature

deaths a year and poisons our environment, with

further impacts on children’s health. But We will establish a new environmental
the Conservatives’ air-quality measures tribunal to ensure that administrative
are so inadequate they have been decisions are consistent with
found to be illegal. environmental and nature-recovery
obligations.
Labour will introduce a new Clean Air
Act, with a vehicle scrappage scheme
and clean air zones, complying with
Land
World Health Organisation limits for
fine particles and nitrous oxides. Land is a public good, but it is not a
common asset. In 1979, 20% of land
We will provide an extra £5.6 billion
was owned by the public sector.
in funding to improve the standard
Today, that has halved.
of flood defences and respond
to the increased risk of flooding, Green Belts protect one tenth of our
prioritising areas at risk in North land and offer conservation of some
West England, Yorkshire and the East of our natural environment. Introduced
Midlands that have been neglected by Labour in 1947 to provide access
by Conservative investments. to the countryside, they are threatened
by developments.
A Labour government will maintain

Nature Restoration
agricultural and rural structural funds
Our Plan for Nature will set legally but repurpose them to support
binding targets to drive the restoration environmental land management
of species and habitats. and sustainable methods of food
production.
We will embark on an ambitious
programme of tree planting, with both We will invest in more county farms to
forestry and native woodland species. replace those lost, and will work with
agricultural organisations to increase
We will fully fund the Environment
access into farming for new entrants.
Agency and other frontline environment
agencies, and improve upstream
river management.
Food
We will create new National Parks
A quarter of all food purchased is
alongside a revised system of other
wasted every year, equivalent to over
protected area designations, which
20 million tonnes of greenhouse gas
will guard existing wildlife sites and
emissions, costing over £20 billion.
join up important habitats, while also
ensuring more people can enjoy living Yet Britain has an epidemic in food-
closer to nature. related ill health, obesity, malnutrition

and diabetes, as well as increased food Waste and Recycling
insecurity – with a boom in food bank
Waste, including plastic waste, pollutes
use and record levels of hunger.
our land and seas, killing wildlife and
Labour will introduce A Right to Food. contaminating our food.
We will end ‘food bank Britain’. We will
We will make producers responsible
ensure everyone has access to healthy,
for the waste they create and for
nutritious, sustainably produced food.
the full cost of recycling or disposal,
We will halve food bank usage within
encouraging more sustainable design
a year and remove the need for them
and manufacturing. In government in
altogether in three years. We will
Wales, Labour has transformed the
establish a National Food Commission
position of recycling, placing them in
and review the Allotments Act. We
the top five globally for recycling rates.
will make food security a reason to
A UK Labour government will learn
intervene in the economy and work with
from Wales’ example, and will also
local councils to minimise food waste
back bottle-return schemes.
We will put farmers, fishers, food
We will invest in three new recyclable
producers and workers at the heart
steel plants in areas with a proud history
of our plans for delivering healthy
of steel manufacturing.
food locally. We will support local
food networks, expand access to
farm holdings and ensure rights of
union representation for all food and
agricultural workers. We will re-establish
an Agricultural Wages Board in England
so every part of the UK is covered.
We will set maximum sustainable

yields for all shared fish stocks,
redistribute fish quotas along
social and environmental criteria
and, if people vote to leave the EU,
require the majority of fish caught
under a UK quota to be landed in
UK ports.
We aim to achieve net-zero-carbon

food production in Britain by 2040.

ANIMAL WELFARE
The Conservatives will Labour has published an ambitious animal welfare
sacrifice animal welfare manifesto which reiterates our commitments to
standards in trade deals prohibit foxhunting and end the cull of badgers.
with other countries.
In England, we will introduce an animal welfare
They threaten to bring
commissioner, prohibit the sale of snares and glue
back fox hunting and are
traps, end the badger cull and ban the keeping of
pursuing the ineffective
primates as pets. We will work internationally to end
badger cull – the
commercial whaling, ban the importation of hunting
largest destruction of
trophies of threatened species, and boost police
a protected species in
resources to tackle rural and wildlife crime.
living memory.

REBUILD
OUR PUBLIC
SERVICES
29 FUNDING
31 NHS AND SOCIAL CARE
37 NATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE
42 POLICE AND SECURITY
46 JUSTICE
49 COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
52 FIRE AND RESCUE
53 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
27
FUNDING
Universal public services, Public services do more than make sure everyone
collectively provided has the basics. They create shared experiences and
through general taxation strengthen social bonds. They make our lives richer and
and free at the point of more fulfilling.
use for all, are how we
A decade of Tory cuts has pushed our public services
guarantee the right to a
to breaking point. Labour offers real change – we
good life.
will make Britain’s public services the best and most
extensive in the world.
We will pay for this by creating a fairer taxation system,

asking for a little more from those with the broadest
shoulders, and making sure that everyone pays what
they owe.
We will reverse some of the Tories’ cuts to corporation

tax while keeping rates lower than in 2010.
We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to

pay a little more income tax, while freezing National
Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.

We will end the unfairness that sees Our most valuable assets are the
income from wealth taxed at lower dedicated people who work in
rates than income from work. VAT is our public services, but under this
a regressive tax that hits the poorest government their pay has been cut in
hardest and we guarantee no increases real terms. Labour will restore public
in VAT. sector pay to at least pre-financial
crisis levels (in real terms), by delivering
We will launch the biggest ever
year-on-year above-inflation pay rises,
crackdown on tax avoidance and
starting with a 5% increase, to reward
evasion and reform the inefficient
and retain the people who do so much
system of tax reliefs.
for us all.
Public services must also be
accountable. Labour will end the
current presumption in favour of
outsourcing public services and
introduce a presumption in favour of
insourcing. And we will stop the public
getting ripped off by taking back all
PFI contracts over time.
When services are procured from

the private sector, companies will be
assessed against best practice public
service criteria, including provisions
for collective bargaining, fair wage
clauses, adherence to environmental
standards, effective equalities policies,
full tax compliance and application of
pay ratios. In the public sector, we will
enforce maximum pay ratios of 20:1.
We will repair the damage the Tories

have done to our social fabric, with
a £150 billion Social Transformation
Fund to replace, upgrade and expand
our schools, hospitals, care homes and
council houses. Public buildings will be
modernised to ensure a reduction in
their carbon footprint.

NHS AND SOCIAL CARE
The National Health A decade of Tory health cuts and privatisations has
Service is one of Labour’s pushed our greatest institution to the brink. Our
proudest achievements. hospitals are crumbling, equipment is outdated, IT
The right to free-at- systems are inadequate and community facilities
the-point-of-use are neglected.
healthcare, universal and
There are 100,000 staff vacancies in NHS England,
comprehensive in scope,
including a shortage of 43,000 nurses. There are
is socialism in action.
15,000 fewer hospital beds. Every winter, bed
occupancy rates exceed dangerous levels. Patients
now wait far too long to see their GP, for an ambulance
or for treatment.
Our immediate task is to repair our health services.
Our urgent priority is to end NHS privatisation.
Our mission is to create the conditions to prevent

illness and enable people to live longer, healthier lives.

Quality Care for All and to ensure future decisions are
transparent and balanced fairly
A Labour government will invest in the
between every region. We will complete
NHS to give patients the modern, well-
the confirmed hospital rebuilds and
resourced services they need. We will
invest more in primary care settings,
increase expenditure across the health
modern AI, cyber technology and
sector by an average 4.3% a year. This
state-of-the-art medical equipment,
investment enables us to end patient
including more MRI and CT scanners.
charges, guarantee the standards of
healthcare patients are entitled to We will ensure data protection for
receive from NHS England, invest in NHS and patient information, a highly
education for the health workforce and valuable publicly funded resource that
restore public health grants. can be used for better diagnosis of
conditions and for ground-breaking
Our investments mean we deliver the
research. We will ensure NHS data is not
standards of care enshrined in the NHS.
exploited by international technology
We will stabilise our overstretched A&E
and pharmaceutical corporations.
departments. We will improve stroke,
heart disease and cancer survival rates We will uphold the principle of
by providing earlier diagnosis and comprehensive healthcare by providing
improved screening rates. We will call a free annual NHS dental check-ups.
moratorium on bed cuts. We will guarantee universal healthcare
by ensuring women’s and children’s
Every penny spent on privatisation and
health services are comprehensive,
outsourcing is a penny less spent on
by protecting the rights of EU workers,
patient care. Labour will end and reverse
other migrants and refugees and by
privatisation in the NHS in the next
ensuring all our services are made
Parliament. We will repeal the Health
accessible to BAME, LGBT+ and
and Social Care Act and reinstate the
disabled patients. We will end
responsibilities of the Secretary of
mixed-sex wards.
State to provide a comprehensive and
universal healthcare system. We will end We will ensure our NHS becomes a net-
the requirement on health authorities to zero-carbon service with an NHS Forest
put services out to competitive tender. of one million trees, more efficient
We will ensure services are delivered heating and insulation systems, greater
in-house and also bring subsidiary reliance on renewable energy, including
companies back in-house. We will halt more solar panelling and a transition to
the fire sale of NHS land and assets. electric paramedic vehicles, NHS fleet
cars and hybrid ambulances.
We will publish an infrastructure plan to
return NHS England to the international
average level of capital investment

We will introduce mandatory standards To support our transition to community
for NHS in-patient food and will provide health care services, we will expand GP
free hospital parking for patients, staff training places to provide resources for
and visitors. 27 million more appointments each year
and ensure community pharmacy is
supported.
Joined-up Care
As medical technologies advance,

Mental Health
we will live with a wider array of
chronic conditions. Health and care A Labour government will provide
must become more joined-up, more an additional £1.6 billion a year to
accessible, more personal and more ensure new standards for mental
preventative. health are enshrined in the NHS
constitution ensuring access to
We will stop Tory plans to further
treatments is on a par with that
entrench the private sector delivery
for physical health conditions.
of health care under the cover of
integration plans set out in the NHS Our mental health hospitals are not fit
Long Term Plan. Instead we will join up, for purpose. Over 1,000 people with
integrate and co-ordinate care through mental health problems face hospital
public bodies. stays in old, dormitory-style hospital
wards, while less than one in four
A Labour government will develop a
A&E departments have the facilities
planned model of joined-up community
to deal with people experiencing a
care, enabling people to live longer lives
mental health crisis. We will invest
in better health in their own homes. We
£2 billion to modernise hospital facilities
will ensure the voices of local people
and end the use of inappropriate,
and NHS staff are heard in future
out-of-area placements.
developments of the health system.
The legislation for detaining people
We will allocate a greater proportion of
with learning disabilities and mental
overall funding to close-to-home health
illnesses is outdated. We will implement
services and build interdisciplinary,
in full the recommendations set out in
patient-focused services across
the independent review of the Mental
primary care, mental health and social
Health Act, so that people are given
care. We will ensure patients in deprived
choice, autonomy and the treatment
and remote communities will have
they need.
better access to primary care services.
We will also ensure those living with We will invest more in eating disorders
long-term conditions can access the services and ensure NICE guidelines on
care they need. eating disorders are implemented.

We will improve access to psychological breastfeeding support and
therapies to ensure they deliver the introduce mental health assessments
quality care patients deserve. We will in a maternal health check six weeks
ensure provision of 24/7 crisis services. after birth.
Only one in four children and young We will invest in children’s oral health,
people are able to receive help from a tackle childhood obesity and extend
mental health professional. Our £845 the sugar tax to milk drinks. We will
million plan for Healthy Young Minds will ban fast-food restaurants near schools
more than double the annual spending and enforce stricter rules around the
on children and adolescent mental advertising of junk food and levels of
health services. salt in food. We will take actions to
significantly reduce infant deaths and
We will establish a network of open-
ensure families who lose a baby receive
access mental health hubs to enable
appropriate bereavement support as
more children to access mental health
well as protections at work.
and recruit almost 3,500 qualified
counsellors to guarantee every child The re-emergence of measles is an
access to school counsellors. indictment. We will urgently put in place
a vaccination action plan to regain our
measles-free status in WHO listings.
Inequalities
We will fully fund sexual health services
Life expectancy is stalling and infant and roll out PrEP medication.
mortality rates are increasing, especially
We will address drug-related deaths,
among those living in our most deprived
alcohol-related health problems and
communities.
the adverse impacts of gambling
A Labour government will target a as matters of public health, treated
reduction in health inequalities with accordingly in expanded addiction-
a comprehensive children’s health support services. Alcoholic drinks will
strategy. We will introduce a Future be labelled with clear health warnings.
Generations Well-being Act, enshrining We will review the evidence on
health aims in all policies and a new minimum pricing.
duty for NHS agencies to collaborate
We will implement a Tobacco
with directors of public health.
Control Plan and fund smoking
We will invest more than £1 billion in cessation services.
public health and recruit 4,500 more
health visitors and school nurses. We
will increase mandated health visits,
ensure new mothers can have access to

Workforce The Orkambi cystic fibrosis drug is just
the latest example of patients held
A Labour government will end the crisis
to ransom by corporations charging
in our health and care services, plan for
extortionate prices for life-saving drugs.
the future and guarantee real-terms pay
rises every year. We will establish a generic drug
company. If fair prices are rejected for
Agenda for Change terms and
patented drugs we will use the Patents
conditions will be put into law
Act provisions, compulsory licences and
alongside safe staffing limits for all
research exemptions to secure access
staff. We will invest, train and develop
to generic versions, and we will aim to
NHS staff throughout their careers.
increase the number of pharmaceutical
We will introduce a training bursary
jobs in the UK.
for nurses, midwives and allied
health professionals. We will We will play an active role in the
remove the obstacles to ethical medical innovation model, ensuring
international recruitment. rewards and incentives match the areas
of greatest health need.
A Labour government will review the tax
and pension changes implemented by We will ensure that all parts of the
the Tory government to ensure that the NHS, the treatment of patients, the
workforce is fairly rewarded and that employment of staff and medicine
services are not adversely affected. pricing are all fully excluded and
protected from any international
We will provide mental health
trade deals.
support for staff and create a working
environment within the NHS that is We will progress clinically appropriate
safe, flexible and free from harassment, prescription of medical cannabis.
bullying or violence.
We will abolish prescription charges
in England.
Medicine
Under a Labour government the Social Care

NHS will be at the forefront of the
Social care funding cuts have left 1.5
development of genomics and cell
million older people without the care
therapies so that patients can benefit
they need.
from new treatments for cancer
and dementia, whilst ensuring the Almost £8 billion has been lost from
UK continues to lead in medical social care budgets since 2010. This is
developments. having a profound impact on unpaid
carers in this country, with 2.6 million

carers quitting their jobs to provide care funded care packages, improve the
to family members. The current care standard of care provided to them and
system is at risk of collapse. remove the distinction between health
and care needs.
A Labour government will build
a comprehensive National Care The provision of additional care
Service for England. We will provide packages also means we can support
community-based, person-centred autistic people and people with
support, underpinned by the principles learning disabilities to move out from
of ethical care and independent living. inappropriate inpatient hospital settings
We will provide free personal care, and provide support in their own homes
beginning with investments to ensure
Our National Care Service will work in
that older people have their personal
partnership with the NHS, ensuring care
care needs met, with the ambition
is delivered for people, not for profit.
to extend this provision to all
Contracts for providing care will not
working-age adults.
be awarded to organisations that do
We will develop eligibility criteria that not pay their fair share of taxes and do
ensures our service works for everyone, not meet our high standards of quality
including people with complex care. Our focus will be on the ethical
conditions like dementia. We will delivery of care that ensures growing
ensure no one ever again needs to face public sector provision and providers
catastrophic care costs of more than who meet standards of transparency,
£100,000 for the care they need in old compliance and profit capping.
age, which we will underscore with a
Nearly one and a half million people
lifetime cap on personal contributions
work in the care sector, but there are
to care costs.
over 100,000 vacancies. Labour will
We will also invest in other social care invest to end the social care crisis, end
packages to reverse the damage done 15-minute care visits and provide care
by Conservative cuts and provide workers with paid travel time, access to
additional care packages to support training and an option to choose regular
both older people and working-age hours. We will increase the Carer’s
adults living independently in their Allowance for unpaid full-time carers.
own homes.
Our investments in social care services

will enable us to more than double the
number of people receiving publicly

NATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE
Education makes our But education isn’t just vital to our economy – it lets
economy stronger, people develop their talents, overcomes injustices and
our society richer inequalities and helps us understand each other and
and our people more form social bonds.
fulfilled. Whether it is
The Conservatives have starved our education system
businesses finding people
of funding, transferring costs onto students, staff and
with the right skills, a
communities. They have lost sight of its value.
tech start-up making our
economy more dynamic From cutting budgets of schools, disproportionately
or more people in better in deprived areas, to closing Sure Start centres
paid work and able to and underfunding support for those with special
contribute to public educational needs and disabilities, Conservative
services, we all benefit policy has meant those in most need have lost out.
from an educated society.
That’s why our National Education Service will be at
the heart of Labour’s plan for real change. It will provide
free education for everyone throughout their lives and
will nurture every child and adult to find a path that’s
right for them, by promoting all types of learning,
skill and knowledge – technical, vocational, academic
and creative.

Early Years and to ensure that childcare provision
accommodates the working patterns
Early years education is vital to
of all parents.
children’s development. Children from
disadvantaged backgrounds start We will improve child development by
falling behind their peers before they transitioning to a qualified, graduate-
even start school. Early years education led workforce. We value the experience
also helps parents – usually mothers of current early years workers, and will
– by providing a bridge between offer free training to the workforce to
maternity/parental leave and school. attain these qualifications on the job.
But the current system falls far short Achieving this vision will require
of what is needed. One thousand Sure significant investment. We will increase
Start centres have closed since 2010, funding and end the fragmentation
while the Tories’ so-called free childcare of the current system by funding
offer is desperately underfunded providers directly, making things
and excludes many of the most simpler and more sustainable for
disadvantaged children. both parents and providers.
We will reverse cuts to Sure Start and We will recruit nearly 150,000 additional
create a new service, Sure Start Plus, early years staff, including Special
with enough centres to provide a Educational Needs Co-ordinators, and
genuinely universal service, available introduce a national pay scale, driving
in all communities, focused on the up pay for the overwhelmingly
under-2s. female workforce.
Labour will radically reform early years Maintained nursery schools provide a
provision, with a two-term vision proven, high-quality service but they
to make high-quality early years are under threat from Tory cuts. We will
education available for every child. We provide sustainable, long-term funding
will also extend paid maternity leave to to secure their future.
12 months.
Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year-

Schools
olds will be entitled to 30 hours of free
preschool education per week and Labour will make sure schools are
access to additional hours at affordable, properly resourced with increased long-
subsidised rates staggered with term funding, while introducing a fairer
incomes. Labour will also work to extend funding formula that leaves no child
childcare provision for 1-year-olds worse off. We will invest to upgrade
schools that have fallen into disrepair.

Labour’s funding settlement will ensure educational needs and disabilities, who
pupils are taught by a qualified teacher, have endured years of cuts and chaos.
that every school is open for a full five Labour will provide the necessary
days a week, and maximum class sizes funding for children with special
of 30 for all primary school children. We educational needs and disabilities.
will also fund more non-contact time
Labour will end the ‘high stakes’
for teachers to prepare and plan.
testing culture of schools by
Schools have faced years of budget scrapping Key Stage 1 and 2 SATs
cuts, leaving headteachers forced and baseline assessments, and
to beg parents for money for basic refocussing assessment on supporting
equipment. Despite promising to pupil progress.
reverse their own cuts, the Tories latest
We will introduce an Arts Pupil Premium
funding announcement leaves 83% of
to fund arts education for every
schools still facing cuts next year.
primary school child. We will review the
Schools are being subjected to curriculum to ensure that it enriches
intensified testing, inspection, league students and covers subjects such as
tables and competition. These aren’t black history and continues to teach
improving pupil achievement or issues like the Holocaust. Pupils will
narrowing the attainment gap, but learn both the science of climate and
are contributing to a growing teacher environmental emergency, and the
recruitment and retention crisis. skills necessary to deal with them.
The narrowing curriculum is We will end the fragmentation and

denying many children access to marketisation of our school system by
modern languages, arts and music, bringing free schools and academies
or technical and engineering skills back under control of the people who
that will be essential in a world know them best – parents, teachers
shaped by climate change. and local communities.
The academies system is Under our system:

over-centralised, inefficient and
•B
udget and day-to-day decisions
undemocratic. Parents, communities
will be transferred back to schools,
and even teachers are shut out of
overseen by an accountable governing
decisions about schools and vulnerable
body with elected representatives.
children are being let down. And there
is no evidence that academies deliver • Responsibility for delivery of education and
better results. support for young people will sit with local
authorities, they will manage admissions.
The Conservatives have failed a
and have responsibility for school places,
generation of children with special
including the power to open schools

• Oversight and coordination, including We will bring back the School Support
of continuous, peer-to-peer school Staff Negotiating Body and national
improvement modelled on the London pay settlements for teachers.
Challenge, will be carried out by
We will close the tax loopholes enjoyed
regional offices of the NES.
by elite private schools and use that
• All schools will be subject to a money to improve the lives of all
common rulebook, set out in children, and we will ask the Social
legislation. Justice Commission to advise on
integrating private schools and creating
We will replace Ofsted and transfer
a comprehensive education system.
responsibility for inspections to a
new body, designed to drive school
improvement.
Further Education
A new teacher supply service will tackle and Lifelong Learning
the waste of funds going to private
With automation and the Green
supply teacher agencies thanks to
Industrial Revolution bringing major
the government’s failure to recruit and
changes to industry, it is more
retain experienced teachers.
important than ever that people have
We will take action to end ‘off-rolling’, the opportunity to retrain and upskill
removing the perverse incentives for throughout their lives.
schools to let pupils fall out of the
Under the Tories, adult education
system, by making schools accountable
has undergone 10 years of managed
for the outcomes of pupils who leave
decline. England already faces a
their rolls.
shortage of people with higher-level
We will properly regulate all education technical qualifications, and demand
providers and reform alternative for these skills will only grow as we
provision (AP) to ensure an excellent create new green jobs.
education is the right of every child, and
Instead of investing in people to
improve the outcomes and life chances
prepare them for the jobs of the future,
of some of the most vulnerable children
the Conservatives have slashed funding
in society.
and cut opportunities.
We will ‘poverty-proof’ schools,
Labour will ensure fairness and
introducing free school meals for all
sustainability in further education,
primary school children, encouraging
aligning the base rate of per-pupil
breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of
funding in post-16 education with
school uniforms.
Key Stage 4, providing dedicated
capital funding to expand provision

and bringing back the Education Higher Education
Maintenance Allowance as the Welsh
Under the Tories, universities are
Labour Government has done.
treated as private businesses, left
Labour will make lifelong learning a at the mercy of market forces, while
reality, giving everyone a free lifelong top salaries soar and students pay
entitlement to: more for less. Tuition fees have
trebled and maintenance grants have
• Training up to Level 3.
been scrapped, leaving the poorest
• Six years training at Levels 4-6, with graduates with an average debt
maintenance grants for disadvantaged of £57,000.
learners.
Labour will end the failed free-market
We will introduce additional experiment in higher education,
entitlements for workers in industries abolish tuition fees and bring
that are significantly affected by back maintenance grants. We will
industrial transition. fundamentally rethink the assessment
of research and teaching quality, and
We will make sure training delivers the
develop a new funding formula for
right skills by giving employers a role
higher education that:
in co-design and co-production of
qualifications. •E
nsures all public HE institutions
have adequate funding for teaching
We will restore funding for English for
and research.
Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
courses and restore and expand the • Widens access to higher
Union Learning Fund, giving workers education and reverses the
the right to accrue paid time off for decline of part-time learning.
education and training.
•E
nds the casualisation of staff.
Labour will reform existing careers
We will transform the Office for
advice, working towards an integrated
Students from a market regulator to a
information, advice and guidance
body of the National Education Service,
system that covers the entire NES.
acting in the public interest.
We will reverse the fragmentation
We will introduce post-qualification
and privatisation of further and adult
admissions in higher education,
education, incorporating it into a single
and work with universities to ensure
national system of regulation that
contextual admissions are used across
functions for education as our NHS
the system.
does for healthcare provision.

POLICE AND SECURITY
The primary duty Recorded crime has risen, including violent crimes
of government is to like knife crime, which has risen to record high levels,
keep people safe. Our up 80% in the last five years. Last year more than 11
communities were million crimes were recorded, and the proportion of
endangered when the offences charged has fallen across all categories:
Conservatives took violence, drugs, robbery, burglary, weapons possession
21,000 police officers and vehicle theft. Prosecutions have fallen to a record
off our streets. low level. Some offences have been decriminalised in
practice. Only 1.4% of reported rapes are prosecuted.
Crime rates reflect the society we live in.

Conservative cuts to services have eroded the
fabric of local communities. The rate of school
exclusions has increased, as has social inequality
– crime rates are driven by both.
Where the Conservatives have failed, a Labour

government will take action to address the causes
of crime and end the epidemic. We will invest in our
communities and public services to build the stronger,

fairer society that keeps us all safer. The Tory approach to policing has
Rebuilding our criminal justice services, been different: reckless, remote,
we will focus on crime prevention and authoritarian, ineffective policing
early interventions, giving people the on the cheap. It has led to what HM
best chance of rehabilitation. Inspectorate of Constabulary described
as dangerous, disturbing practices,
We will rebuild our youth services and
with investigations shelved, vulnerable
guarantee young people’s access to
victims let down and dangerous
youth workers. We will invest in a youth
suspects remaining at large.
justice system in which schools, local
authorities, health authorities and We will retain local democratic
youth services work together to divert accountability for police forces and
young people away from the pathways reform the police funding formula to
towards crime. ensure sufficient, sustainable resources
are fairly allocated. We will agree
resources with the police authorities
Police to combat crime and restore
community policing by consent.
A Labour government will invest in
policing to prevent crime and make Effective police work requires the police
our communities safer, and we will to serve their communities and work
enforce the laws protecting police collaboratively with youth workers,
and other emergency workers from mental health services, schools, drug
violent assault. rehabilitation programmes and other
public agencies. A police force working
We will rebuild the whole police
within our communities, with the
workforce, recruiting more police
capacity to gather local intelligence,
officers, police community support
is also the frontline of our domestic
officers and police staff. We will
security – the first eyes and ears of
re-establish neighbourhood policing
effective counter-terrorism.
and recruit 2,000 more frontline officers
than have been planned for by the We will work to eliminate institutional
Conservatives. We will work with police biases against BAME communities.
forces to invest in a modern workforce Proportionate stop-and-search based
to tackle the rise in violent crime and on intelligence is a needed tool of
cybercrime under the Tories. To deliver effective policing, but the use of
these priorities, Labour will work with expanded powers means black and
police and crime commissioners to Asian men are still more likely to be
reform police funding and share new stopped and searched, poisoning
resources fairly, and to ensure that relations between the police and the
local needs are met. local communities they serve.

We will ensure better police training A Labour government will review our
on domestic abuse and offences security strategies.
arising from coercive control, as well
We will review the Prevent programme
as historical abuses and other crimes
to assess both effectiveness and
neglected by the reduced forces
potential to alienate communities
operating under Tory austerity.
and consider alternatives including
A Labour government will establish a safeguarding programmes to protect
Royal Commission to develop a public those vulnerable to the recruitment
health approach to substance misuse, propaganda and ideologies of the
focusing on harm reduction rather than far-right and others who promote terror
criminalisation. as a political strategy.
We will introduce minimum legal We will review the Protect programme

standards of service for all victims to ensure that public authorities take
of crime. appropriate security measures, without
alienating the communities they serve.
We will evaluate the mobile phone

Security
trials with the aim of introducing an
We will address the failure of the emergency alert system.
Conservatives to take effective
We will use our diplomatic services,
measures against a growing problem
our aid budgets and our international
of extreme or violent radicalisation.
standing to promote peaceful solutions
We will ensure closer counter terrorism
to conflicts and tackle the risks arising
co-ordination between the police
from poverty, natural catastrophes and
and the security services, combining
population displacements. Our national
neighbourhood expertise with
security is linked to global threats. We
international intelligence.
will respect international law and avoid
We will ensure the powers exercised by needless military interventions.
the security services are proportionate
Our security co-operation
and used in accordance with human
arrangements with EU neighbours
rights. We will review the circumstances
are essential for our safety. If the
requiring judicial warrant. We will
British people confirm their decision
ensure agencies are accountable and
to leave, we will prioritise agreement
strengthen the powers of the Joint
of a new UK-EU Security Treaty.
Intelligence and Security Committee.
We will constrain the right of the Prime
Minister to suppress publication of
committee reports.

Cybersecurity Border Security
Cybercrime and cyberwarfare are Our border security prevents serious

growing, all around the world. Every crimes including child abduction,
aspect of our lives, from the NHS to people trafficking, smuggling of drugs
our nuclear facilities, from transport and guns, terrorism and modern
systems to communications networks day slavery. The Tories have further
is vulnerable. weakened our borders, cutting another
200 jobs over the last four years.
A Labour government, ever more
They have failed to deliver exit checks.
dependent on digital technology,
In place of an effective border control
will overhaul our cybersecurity by
they have required landlords, teachers
creating a co-ordinating minister and
and medical staff to work as unpaid
regular reviews of cyber-readiness.
immigration officers, creating a hostile
We will review the role and remit of environment.
the National Cyber Security Centre to
A Labour government will review
determine whether it should be given
our border controls to make them
powers as an auditing body, with the
more effective.
ability to issue warnings to private
and public sector organisations and
designate risk.
We will also review the structures and

roles of the National Crime Agency,
to strengthen the response to all
types of economic crime, including
cybercrime and fraud, and ensure a
modern, technologically advanced
police service that has the capacity
and skills to combat online crime,
supported by a new national strategy
on cybercrime and fraud.

JUSTICE
Smarter justice requires We will champion a joined-up approach, fostering
cross-government action close working relationships between criminal justice
to reduce the impact agencies with education authorities, health services
of adverse childhood and others by establishing violence-reduction units
experiences and to break and ensuring vulnerable people get the support they
the vicious cycle of need by boosting public health, mental health and
poverty, inequality early years services. Prison is not the best place to
and crime. address the drug addictions, mental illnesses and
debts that lead many people into crime.
The crisis in our criminal justice system has left

communities less safe, victims less supported and
people less able to defend their rights. Labour will
defend the rule of law.
Cutting thousands of prison officers has driven record

levels of prison violence. A Labour government will
restore total prison officer numbers to 2010 levels,
and phase out dangerous lone working. We will bring
PFI prisons back in-house and there will be no new

private prisons. We will tackle the prison We will ensure legal aid for inquests
maintenance backlog and develop a into deaths in state custody and the
long-term estate strategy. preparation of judicial review cases.
We will consult on the civil legal aid
The Ministry of Justice’s own
means-test levels and act on the
evidence shows tens of thousands of
criminal legal aid review.
crimes could be prevented if robust
community sentences replace short We will defend workers’ ability to
prison sentences. We will set new recover legal representation costs
standards for community sentences from negligent employers.
and introduce a presumption against
We will keep the right for workers to
prison sentences of six months
be represented and recover their
or less for non-violent and
costs in cases of employer negligence
non-sexual offences.
leading to injury at work. We will review
We will invest in proven alternatives to the eligibility criteria for the criminal
custody, including women’s centres, injuries compensation scheme.
expand problem-solving courts and
A Labour government will halt
plug the funding gap in the female
court closures and cuts to staff, and
offender strategy. We will further
undertake a review of the courts reform
consider the evidence for effective
programme. We will facilitate a more
alternatives and rehabilitation of
representative judiciary while upholding
prolific offenders.
its independence, and review funding
A Labour government will reunify for the Crown Prosecution Service.
probation and guarantee a publicly run,
We will tackle the disproportionate
locally accountable probation service.
levels of BAME children in custody,
Under Labour, probation staff and
review the youth custody estate,
professional standards will once again
strengthen youth courts and build
be properly valued.
on the Lammy Review.
Legal aid cuts mean essential legal
Violence against women and girls is
help is too often denied. To help people
unacceptable as is many women’s
enforce their rights, we will restore all
experience of criminal justice agencies.
early legal aid advice, including for
We will set new standards for tackling
housing, social security, family and
domestic and sexual abuse and
immigration cases.
violence, and appoint a Commissioner
We will recruit hundreds of new for Violence against Women and Girls.
community lawyers, promote public We will establish an independent review
legal education and build an expanded into shamefully low rape prosecution
network of law centres. rates. We will establish a National

Refuge Fund, ensure financial stability
for rape crisis centres and reintroduce
a Domestic Abuse Bill.
We will improve the safety of the

family court system for domestic
violence victims and prohibit their
cross-examination by their abuser.
We will introduce protections for victims
of so-called revenge porn. Labour will
introduce a no-fault divorce procedure.
We will uphold women’s reproductive
rights and decriminalise abortions.
We will establish public inquiries

into historical injustices including
blacklisting and Orgreave, and ensure
the second phase of the Grenfell
Inquiry has the confidence of all
those affected, especially the bereaved
families and survivors. We will also
consider a public inquiry in the case
of Zane Gbangbola.
We will require judicial warrants for

undercover operations and retain the
Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing.
We will release all papers on the

Shrewsbury 24 trials and 37 Cammell
Laird shipyard workers and introduce
a Public Accountability Bill. We will
ensure fair compensation for the
victims of contaminated blood
products across the UK.

COMMUNITIES AND
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Labour will reverse the While those who make decisions in Whitehall can seem
Tory decade of austerity distant and detached, our local councillors live among
for local government and us, shopping on the same high street, using the same
aim to restore council parks and leisure centres and sending their children to
spending powers to 2010 the same schools. Thriving local councils are vital to
levels over the lifetime of Labour’s democratic transformation of
the Parliament. the economy.
Councils are the collective voice of local communities

and are on the frontline in delivering many essential
public services.
Tory cuts, which have been deliberately targeted

at the poorest areas of the country, have plunged
our councils into crisis and pushed many services
to breaking point. Decades of privatisation and
outsourcing have hollowed out council capacity,
taken money out of communities and undermined
democratic accountability.

We will act to bring services – from bin protected, that safety standards are
collections to management of local maintained and improved, and that
leisure centres – back in-house within local authority trading standards
the next Parliament, improving service departments and other consumer
quality, saving money and ensuring the protection agencies have the resources
people who deliver vital local services to enforce those rights and standards
are treated decently.
We will stop Crown Post Office closures
Rural councils deliver public services and bring Royal Mail back into public
differently, and this needs to be ownership at the earliest opportunity,
reflected in funding allocation reuniting it with the Post Office and
mechanisms. We will introduce a ‘rural- creating a publicly owned Post Bank
proofing’ process so that all our laws, run through the post office network
policies and programmes consider their to ensure every community has easy
impact on rural communities. access to face-to-face, trusted and
affordable banking.
Where local areas experience a sharp
rise in demand for services, we will make A Business Development Agency will be
council funding more reactive, and will based in the Post Bank, providing free
work with councils to establish such a support and advice on how to launch,
fund to meet changing circumstances. manage and grow a business.
Our high streets are being decimated Pubs are community hubs but 18 are
by store closures and jobs losses. closing each week in Britain. Labour will
High streets are more than places to list pubs as Assets of Community Value
shop, they are places we go for culture, so community groups have the first
company and character. We will revive chance to buy local pubs when they
high streets by stopping bank branch are under threat.
closures, banning ATM charges and
We will ensure libraries are preserved
giving local government new powers
for future generations and updated
to put empty shops to good use.
with Wi-Fi and computers. We will
Business rates are causing real issues reintroduce library standards so that
for high-street retailers and others. government can assess and guide
A Labour government will review councils in delivering the best
the option of a land value tax on possible service.
commercial landlords as an
As well as the presumption to insource
alternative and develop a retail
public services, we will build community
sector industrial strategy.
wealth by giving communities the
We will make sure the rights of powers and resources they need to
consumers are enhanced and keep public spending circulating in

the local economy, rather than being of foster parents and regulation of
sucked offshore to corporate tax semi-supported housing, to ensure
havens. We will extend community we meet the needs of every child.
control in the private sector by
We will rebuild early intervention
supporting local and community
services and replace the Troubled
businesses. We will give a new
Families programme with a Stronger
Co-operative Development Agency
Families programme, refocused on
a mission to double the size of the
long-term support to reduce the risk
co-operative sector.
of children going into care.
Labour will put the voices of local
We will protect and build on
people at the heart of planning. We will
Staying Put for over-18s in care
rebalance power in the planning system
and the Adoption Support Fund.
by giving local government greater
freedom to set planning fees and by
requiring the climate and environmental
emergency to be factored into all
planning decisions.
Young people have been let down by

the Conservatives. At least 750 youth
centres have closed since 2012. Too
many young people now have nowhere
to go, nothing to do and no one to help
them with their problems. Labour will
build a properly funded, professionally
staffed National Youth Service, and
will guarantee every young person has
access to local, high-quality youth work.
Vulnerable children have suffered most,

with many left waiting until crisis point
for support. Councils are having to meet
the needs of more at-risk children with
lower funding.
Labour will launch a wholesale

review of the care system, including
kinship care, considering national
standards such as a central register

FIRE AND RESCUE
The Conservatives have A Labour government will halt the cuts and further
cut 11,500 firefighter jobs invest in our Fire and Rescue Service, recruiting at
and closed dozens of fire least 5,000 new firefighters. We will learn lessons from
stations. Response times the public inquiries into Grenfell and earlier disasters.
have got slower and lives We will establish a broadly based implementation
have been put at risk. taskforce, but will not wait for final recommendations
to make urgently needed changes. We will ensure
dedicated fire controls under Fire and Rescue Service
governance and provide resources for a public Fire
and Rescue College to ensure that necessary training,
research and planning is undertaken.
We will conduct a review of the Fire and Rescue

Service, evaluating safe staffing levels and consulting
on national minimum standards. We will establish in
law a standards body for fire prevention, protection
and intervention, with trade union representation
at all levels. We will reinstate separate governance
arrangements for Fire and Rescue Service and police
services. We will give fire services the duty to co-
ordinate the emergency response to floods locally.

DIGITAL, CULTURE,
MEDIA AND SPORT
Digital broadband infrastructure and
retail broadband work.
Digital and technological
advancements bring challenges, BDI will roll out the remaining 90–92%
but also huge opportunities. In the of the full-fibre network, and acquire
age of AI and automation, digital necessary access rights to existing
connectivity will underpin our future assets. BBS will coordinate the delivery
economy. We will need world-class of free broadband in tranches as
digital infrastructure in which everyone the full-fibre network is rolled out,
can share. beginning with the communities worst
served by existing broadband networks.
Labour will deliver free full-fibre
Taxation of multinationals, including
broadband to all by 2030.
tech giants, will pay for the operating
We will establish British Broadband, costs of the public full-fibre network.
with two arms: British Digital The plan will boost jobs, tackle regional
Infrastructure (BDI) and the British inequality and improve quality of
Broadband Service (BBS). We will bring life as part of a mission to connect
the broadband-relevant parts of BT the country.
into public ownership, with a jobs
We will enforce a legal duty of care to
guarantee for all workers in existing
protect our children online, impose fines

on companies that fail on online abuse We will work with trade unions and
and empower the public with a Charter employers to make creative jobs
of Digital Rights. accessible for all, ensuring diversity
in these industries so that everyone
sees themselves represented on
Culture screen and on stage. We will review
the copyright framework to ensure
Britain’s thriving arts, culture and
fair remuneration for artists and
creative industries drive investments
content creators.
and encourage tourism.
A Labour government will open up

career opportunities in these industries Media
for everyone and consult on ways to
A Labour government will ensure a
address the gender imbalance in the
healthy future for all our public service
digital creative industries.
broadcasters, including BBC Alba and
We will introduce an Arts Pupil Premium S4C. We will protect free TV licences for
to every primary school in England – over-75s.
a £160 million annual boost for schools
A free and fair press is vital to protecting
to ensure creative and arts education
democracy and holding the powerful to
is embedded in secondary education,
account.
and providing a pathway to grow our
thriving creative sector. We will address misconduct and
the unresolved failures of corporate
We will invest in the towns and
governance raised by the second stage
communities neglected for too long,
of the abandoned Leveson Inquiry. We
with a £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund
will take steps to ensure that Ofcom
to transform libraries, museums and
is better able to safeguard a healthy
galleries across the country.
plurality of media ownership and to
We will make the distribution of put in place clearer rules on who is fit
National Lottery funding more and proper to own or run TV and radio
transparent to help communities stations. We will take action to address
get their fair share of project funding. the monopolistic hold the tech giants
have on advertising revenues and will
We will maintain free entry to
support vital local newspapers and
museums, because everyone should
media outlets.
have access to our shared heritage.
Building on the success of the UK City We will consult media-sector workers
of Culture, we will launch a Town of and trade unions to establish an inquiry
Culture competition. into the ‘fake news’ undermining trust in

media, democracy and public debate, We will add the ICC Cricket World
and on a legal right of public interest Cup to the list of crown jewel sporting
defence for journalists. events that are broadcast free-to-air.
We will commission an independent

review into discrimination in sport.
Sport
Sport enriches our lives, binds

communities together and helps Gambling
us all to stay healthy.
A Labour government will curb
Sport must be accessible and run in the gambling advertising in sports and
interests of those who participate in it introduce a new Gambling Act fit for
and love it. the digital age, establishing gambling
limits, a levy for problem gambling
In football, the professional game
funding and mechanisms for consumer
has become divided between the
compensations.
extremes of the very rich and the very
poor with clubs in Bury and Bolton
facing collapse. A Labour government
Civic Society
will examine the state of the game,
its governance and regulation, its In the years of austerity it was
ownership rules and the support and non-government organisations that
funding of the clubs that are vital to often held the social fabric of our
local communities. We will review the society together, protecting our
‘fit and proper person test’ for club communities from even greater
owners and directors and ensure that harm and providing precisely targeted
supporters’ trusts have a proper role so support. As we rebuild our public
that the professional game is properly services, we will support and maintain
run for all its fans and all its clubs. the social capital values of these
organisations.
A Labour government will legislate for
accredited football supporters’ trusts to
be able to appoint and remove at least
two club directors and purchase shares
when clubs change hands. We will
regulate safe standing in stadiums and
ensure that a proportion of the Premier
League’s television rights income is
spent on grassroots football facilities.

TACKLE
POVERTY AND
INEQUALITY
59 WORK
65 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES
70 MIGRATION
72 SOCIAL SECURITY
77 HOUSING
81 CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
57
WORK
Work should provide Under the Tories, pay has stagnated while insecurity
a decent life for all, and inequality are rising.
guaranteeing not just
Work no longer guarantees a way out of poverty.
dignity and respect in the
Of 14.3 million people in poverty, nine million live in
workplace, but also the
families where at least one adult works. Real wages
income and leisure time
are still lower than before the financial crisis, while
to allow for a fulfilling life
dividends paid to shareholders are up 85%.
outside it.
Labour will eradicate in-work poverty in our first term
by tackling the structural causes of poverty and
inequality, such as low pay and high living costs,
while raising the floor provided by our social safety net.
Too many people have found themselves in a spiral of

debt as wages fell and housing costs rose. Labour will
cap the total amount that can be paid in overdraft fees
or interest on a loan.
We will rapidly introduce a Real Living Wage of at least

£10 per hour for all workers aged 16 and over, and use

savings to public finances to help small We will tackle late payments that
businesses manage the extra cost. leave small businesses and the
self-employed waiting months to
We will give workers a stake in the
be paid, including banning late payers
companies they work for – and a share
from public procurement.
of the profits they help create – by
requiring large companies to set up
Inclusive Ownership Funds (IOFs). Up
Ministry for Employment Rights
to 10% of a company will be owned
collectively by employees, with Throughout history, working people
dividend payments distributed equally in Britain have improved their lives by
among all, capped at £500 a year, coming together to demand rights
and the rest being used to top up the and protections. Even after decades
Climate Apprenticeship Fund. The cap in which workers’ rights have been
will rise to ensure that no more than cut back and their unions’ capacity
25% of dividends raised by IOFs are to defend them have been slashed,
redistributed in this way. the Tories believe that workers’ terms
and conditions should be dictated by
And we will explore other innovative
employers on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis.
ways of responding to low pay,
including a pilot of Universal We are proud of the trade union
Basic Income. movement’s historic achievements in
giving people a voice at work through
Growing numbers of the workforce are
collective action. It is not just part of our
self-employed. While for some this
history; it is also part of our future. Only
brings freedom and autonomy, it can
by shifting the balance of power back
also bring insecurity. Self-employed
towards workers will we achieve decent
people will benefit from a broad range
wages, security and dignity at work.
of our policies, from free childcare and
full-fibre broadband to face-to-face The next Labour government will
lending and business support through transform people’s lives for the better
our Post Bank. through the biggest extension of
workers’ rights in history.
We will also seek to develop tailored
support and protections for the self- We will give working people a voice
employed, including: collective income at the Cabinet table by establishing
protection insurance schemes, annual a Ministry for Employment Rights.
income assessments for those on
We will start to roll out sectoral
Universal Credit, and better access to
collective bargaining across the
mortgages and pension schemes.
economy, bringing workers and
employers together to agree legal

minimum standards on a wide range of • Increasing wages through sectoral
issues, such as pay and working hours, collective bargaining.
that every employer in the sector must
•R
equiring breaks during shifts to
follow. Sectoral collective bargaining will
be paid.
increase wages and reduce inequality.
This will also stop good employers •R
equiring cancelled shifts to be paid
being undercut by bad employers. and proper notice for changes
in hours.
We will tackle insecurity by:
•G
iving all workers the right to flexible
• Giving everyone full rights from day
working.
one on the job.
•E
xtending statutory maternity pay
• Strengthening protections for
from nine to 12 months.
whistleblowers and rights against
unfair dismissal for all workers, with •D
oubling paternity leave from two
extra protections for pregnant women, weeks to four and increasing statutory
those going through the menopause paternity pay.
and terminally ill workers.
• Introducing statutory bereavement
• Ending bogus self-employment leave, guaranteeing workers time
and creating a single status of off to grieve the loss of close family
‘worker’ for everyone apart from members or following miscarriage.
those genuinely self-employed in
• Introducing four new bank holidays
business on their own account, so that
celebrating our four patron saints’
employers can not evade workers’
days.
rights; and banning overseas-only
recruitment practices. • Reviewing family-friendly employment
rights, including rights to respond to
• Introducing a legal right to collective
family emergencies.
consultation on the implementation of
new technology in workplaces. We will make sure people are treated
equally at work by:
• Banning zero-hour contracts and
strengthening the law so that those •R
equiring employers to devise and
who work regular hours for more than implement plans to eradicate the
12 weeks will have a right to a regular gender pay gap – and pay inequalities
contract, reflecting those hours. underpinned by race and/or disability
– or face fines.
We will help people balance work and
family life by: •R
equiring employers to maintain
workplaces free of harassment,
including harassment by third parties.

• Increasing protection against for trade unions to help them win a
redundancy for people wherever better deal for working people.
they work.
• Simplify the law around union
• Giving statutory rights to equalities recognition.
representatives.
• Give union reps adequate time off
• Setting up a Royal Commission to for union duties.
bring health (including mental health)
We will develop collective income-
and safety legislation up to date.
protection insurance schemes for the
• Ensuring that public-facing workers self-employed. We will introduce a
are protected by toughening the law maximum workplace temperature to
against abuse and violence. protect workers and require employers
to take counteracting measures.
• Banning unpaid internships.
For years, the UK has been in breach
We will remove unfair and unnecessary
of our international obligations. We
restrictions on trade unions, allowing
will bring UK law into line with the
people to come together and speak up
International Labour Organisation
on issues that affect them at work.
standards it has ratified, so Britain leads
We will: the world, instead of engaging in a race
to the bottom.
• Allow trade unions to use secure
electronic and workplace ballots.
• Remove unnecessary restrictions on Working Time

industrial action.
Time off to rest, relax and be with family
• Strengthen and enforce trade unions’ is essential to a happy and fulfilling life,
right of entry to workplaces to but workers in the UK put in some of the
organise, meet and represent their longest hours in Europe.
members and to recruit.
Labour will tackle excessive working
• Ban union-busting, strengthen hours. Within a decade we will reduce
protection of trade union average full-time weekly working hours
representatives against unfair to 32 across the economy, with no
dismissal and union members from loss of pay, funded by productivity
intimidation, harassment, threats and increases.
blacklisting.
We will meet this target by:
• Repeal anti-trade union legislation
• Ending the opt-out provision for
including the Trade Union Act 2016
the EU Working Time Directive and
and create new rights and freedoms
enforcing working-time regulations.

• Setting up an independent Working Rewriting the Rules
Time Commission to advise on
Social justice also means levelling the
raising minimum holiday entitlements
playing field between small and big
and reducing maximum weekly
business, and ensuring that democracy
working time.
and accountability are valued across
• Mandating bargaining councils to society, including in the private sector.
negotiate reductions in working time.
Businesses are the heartbeat of our
• Investing to increase productivity economy, creating jobs, wealth and
and making sure workers share the innovations.
benefits.
But the upper echelons of corporate
We will keep restrictions on Sunday Britain have been corrupted by a
trading in place and review unpaid culture in which the long-term health
overtime. of a company is sacrificed for a quick
buck for a few: a short-term culture
Enforcement has seen some treasured companies
asset-stripped, leaving workers, small
Rights don’t mean anything unless
business suppliers and pensioners in
they’re enforced, but that is not
the lurch. Too often, the link between
happening under the Tories.
reward and long-term performance is
That doesn’t just hurt workers who lose broken for short-term greed.
out, it is also bad for employers who
Labour will take on short-termism and
follow the law and are undercut by
corporate greed, making sure good
unscrupulous competitors prepared
businesses are rewarded, not undercut.
to break it.
We will rewrite the rules of the economy
Strong trade unions are the best and and ensure everyone plays by them.
most effective way to enforce rights at
We will amend the Companies Act,
work. Labour will also introduce a new,
requiring companies to prioritise
unified Workers’ Protection Agency
long-term growth while strengthening
to enforce workplace rights, including
protections for stakeholders, including
the Real Living Wage. It will be given
smaller suppliers and pension funds.
extensive powers to inspect workplaces
We will tackle late payments that leave
and bring prosecutions and civil
small businesses waiting months to be
proceedings on workers’ behalf.
paid, including banning late payers from
We will keep employment tribunals public procurement.
free, extend their powers, and
For small businesses, we will ensure no
introducenew Labour Courts with a
quarterly reporting for businesses below
stronger role for people with industrial
the VAT threshold.
experience on panels.

We will require one-third of boards to of what class or postcode they are born
be reserved for elected worker-directors into, or the colour of their skin.
and give them more control over
But that’s impossible when you cannot
executive pay – because when those
meet your most basic needs and have
who depend on a company have a say
to choose between eating and heating
in running it, that company generally
your home. Britain is one of the richest
does better and lasts longer.
countries in the world, but under the
We will introduce a broader ‘public Tories millions of people can’t make
interest test’ to prevent hostile ends meet.
takeovers and asset-stripping
They tell us we shouldn’t care about
weakening our industrial base and
inequality, because social mobility
destroying treasured home-grown
allows those who work hard to get
companies. And we will give workers
on. But nobody becomes a billionaire
a voice on public bodies such as the
through hard work alone, and as
Competition and Markets Authority.
inequality has grown, it has become
We will let struggling companies go into more entrenched.
protective administration, so they can
For Labour, the true measure of fairness
be sold as a going concern rather than
is not social mobility but social justice.
collapsing into insolvency.
Implicit in the notion of social mobility
Audits are vital to corporate
is the idea that poverty and inequality
accountability, but the auditing industry
are acceptable provided some people
is dominated by a few players riddled
can climb the social ladder.
with conflicts of interest. Labour will
separate audit and accounting activities Social justice, on the other hand,
in major firms and impose more robust demands that we end poverty, reduce
rules on auditors. inequality and create a society in which
the conditions for a fulfilling life are
We will tackle regulatory capture and
available to everyone.
streamline regulation by creating a new
Business Commission, responsive to Labour will replace the Social Mobility
parliamentary select committees. Commission with a Social Justice
Commission, based in the Treasury,
with wide-ranging powers to hold us,
Social Justice Commission and future governments, to account.
Labour will usher in a new era of social

justice in Britain. Everyone in our society
should be allowed to flourish regardless

WOMEN AND EQUALITIES
Labour is the party of The Conservatives have failed to tackle society’s
equality, committed to burning injustices. Instead, they have inflicted injustice
achieving a world free after injustice on women, Black, Asian and Minority
from all forms of bigotry Ethnic (BAME) and LGBT+ communities and disabled
and discrimination. people. Over 85% of the burden of Tory/Lib Dem cuts
Whether campaigning has fallen on the shoulders of women.
on the streets or
Labour will create a new Department for Women
passing legislation in
and Equalities, with a full-time Secretary of State,
government, Labour
responsible for ensuring all our policies and laws are
is the only party to
equality-impact assessed in order to deliver a fairer
consistently stand with
society for women and all under-represented groups.
women, disabled people,
We will establish a modernised National Women’s
people from ethnic
Commission as an independent advisory body to
minority backgrounds
contribute to a Labour government.
and LGBT+ communities.
We are guided by our firm commitment to the Human
Rights Act and Convention on Human Rights that have
been consistently attacked by the Conservatives. We
will ratify both the Istanbul Convention on preventing
domestic abuse and the ILO Convention on Violence
and Harassment at work.
We will put class at the heart of Britain’s dismissal of pregnant women without
equality agenda and create a new prior approval of the inspectorate.
ground for discrimination on the basis
• Transform the workplace and require
of socio-economic disadvantage.
all large employers to have flexible
working, including a menopause
policy, and consider changes to
Women
sickness and absence practices.
Labour will put women at the heart of
• Enable positive action for recruitment
our government and programme. Next
to roles where employers can justify
year marks the 50th anniversary of the
the need for more diversity and
Equal Pay Act, yet women still earn 13%
introduce a right for all workers to
less than men. Labour will take action to
request flexibility over their hours from
close the gender pay gap by 2030.
the first day of employment.
We will also:
• Ensure that the single-sex-based
• Deliver gender pay equality by making exemptions contained in the Equality
the state responsible for enforcing Act 2010 are understood and fully
equal pay legislation for the first time. enforced in service provision.
The new Workers’ Protection Agency
• Create a safer society for women
working with HMRC will ensure that
and prioritise domestic abuse as a
employers take equal pay seriously
health issue, introduce 10 days of paid
and take positive action to close the
leave for survivors of domestic abuse,
gender pay gap. Women will no longer
and ensure women’s refuges receive
be left to take enforcement action by
the long-term sustainable funding
themselves through the courts.
they need. Misogyny and violence
• Require all employers with over 250 against women and girls will become
employees to obtain government hate crimes.
certification on gender equality or face
• Increase women’s representation
further auditing and fines. By the end
across parliament by building on
of 2020, we will lower the threshold to
the Equality Act, passed by the
workplaces with 50 employees, whilst
last Labour government, and enact
providing the necessary additional
Section 106 so that all political parties
support for small businesses.
publish diversity data about electoral
• Revolutionise parents’ rights by candidates.
increasing paid maternity leave from
nine to 12 months, doubling paternity
leave to four weeks and extending
pregnancy protection. We will ban the

Race Equality access to finance, which many BAME
business owners face; and take action
Achieving racial equality is a bedrock
to ensure that BAME and women
Labour value. It has never been more
business owners have access to
important than in the current climate.
government contracts and spending.
We are proud of the way our country
has been shaped by the contributions, • Implement recommendations of
cultures and values of people from the Lammy Review to address the
around the world. disparity of treatment and outcomes
for BAME people within the criminal
The Conservatives have fanned the
justice system.
flames of racism, using difference
to divide. They have made BAME •C
reate an Emancipation Educational
people pay the price for their austerity Trust to educate around migration and
project and scapegoated refugees and colonialism, and to address the legacy
migrants. Never was this starker than of slavery and teach how it interrupted
with their ‘hostile environment’, leading a rich and powerful black history which
to the scandalous treatment of the is also British history.
Windrush generation. Hate crime has
On religious discrimination, we will:
more than doubled in the last five years.
This is a wake-up call for all of us. •S
trengthen protection for religious
communities and amend the law
Labour will ensure a pathway to
to include attacks on places of
economic inclusion for all, putting
worship (including synagogues,
an end to all forms of racism and
temples, mosques and churches)
discrimination in our economy and
as a specific aggravated offence.
society. Inclusion will be at the heart
of its programme for government. •R
eview current levels of funding for
and access to the Places of Worship
We will:
Protective Security Funding Scheme,
• Seek to end the politics of hate and maintain funding in real terms for the
commission an independent review Community Security Trust, and consult
into the threat of far-right extremism on giving it statutory protection to
and how to tackle it. ensure that religious communities
have the support they need.
• Put wealth and power in the hands of
the many, extend pay-gap reporting
to BAME groups and tackle pay
Disability with Dignity
discrimination on the basis of race.
Over the last 10 years, through
• Commit our National Investment
a catalogue of punitive welfare
Bank to addressing discrimination in
policies, the dignity of people with

disabilities has been degraded by the leave, paid and recorded separately
Conservatives. Not one, but two UN from sick leave.
reports describe the government having
• Recommend that the Equality
committed ‘systematic violations’ of the
and Human Rights Commission
rights of disabled people – while their
prepare a specific code of practice
families have been ‘driven to breaking
on reasonable adjustments to
point’ by cuts to social care.
supplement existing codes. This
More disabled people are now living in will provide an appropriate balance
poverty, and people have died because between flexibility and clarity on
of this government’s choice to make how ‘reasonable’ cost is determined.
the most vulnerable pay for tax cuts The code will also set timescales
for the few. Labour will end this cruelty, for implementation of reasonable
restoring the protections that disabled adjustments to end the long and
people and their families – many of distressing delays experienced by
whom shoulder the cost of their care disabled workers.
– should expect in one of the richest
• Reinstate the Access to Elected Office
countries in the world.
Fund to enable disabled people to run
Labour supports the principle of for elected office.
‘nothing about us without us’.
• Adopt a British Sign Language Act,
We will: giving BSL full legal recognition in law.
• Champion the social model of We will work with employers, trade

disability throughout government. unions and public services to improve
Through our new Department for awareness of neurodiversity in the
Women and Equalities, we will workplace and in society.
ensure that disabled people can be
independent and equal in society, with
choice and control over their own lives. LGBT+ Equality
• Transform the workplace for disabled Labour has a proud history of standing
people by requiring that all employers shoulder to shoulder with LGBT+
be trained to better support them, people. We abolished Section 28,
while introducing mandatory disability equalised the age of consent, created
pay-gap reporting for companies with civil partnerships, and only with
over 250 employees. Labour votes could equal marriage
become law. Labour is committed to
• End disability discrimination and
reforming the Gender Recognition Act
update the Equality Act to introduce
2004 to introduce self-declaration for
new specific duties including disability
transgender people, but we are not

complacent about the culture shift •R
espond fast and firmly wherever
required to make LGBT+ inclusivity a LGBT+ people face violence
reality. The Conservatives have been or persecution internationally
slow to understand the scale of abuse and appoint a dedicated global
and discrimination LGBT+ people ambassador to the Foreign Office on
continue to face in our society. LGBT+ issues.
Labour will eliminate remaining areas Labour will work with organisations and
of discrimination in law, ensuring charities already making the UK a more
that LGBT+ people can live in safety equal and fairer society and together
and dignity. we will build a country for the many,
not the few.
We will:
• Put LGBT+ equality at the heart of

government, ensuring our public
services are LGBT+ inclusive and
delivering on the national LGBT
Action Plan.
• Take steps to safeguard LGBT+ rights

inside or outside the EU, such as
retaining and promoting the Human
Rights Act.
• Tackle the homelessness and rough

sleeping crisis in the UK, ensuring
that all strategies and services
are tailored to understand needs
unique to LGBT+ homeless people,
particularly young people who make
up a disproportionate number of our
currently homeless people.
• Provide sufficient funding for schools

to deliver mandatory LGBT+ inclusive
relationships and sex education.
• Fully fund sexual health services and

roll out PrEP medication.

MIGRATION
A Labour government Our immigration system must allow us to recruit the
will establish a humane people we need, and to welcome them and their
immigration system families. Our work visa system must fill any skills or
and end the ‘hostile labour shortages that arise. The movement of people
environment’ that caused around the world has enriched our society,
the Windrush scandal our economy and our culture.
of British citizens being
We will take decisive action to regulate the labour
deported. Instead, our
market to stop the undercutting of wages and
system will be built on
conditions, and the exploitation of all workers including
human rights and aimed
migrant workers. It is the actions of bad bosses and
at meeting the skills and
successive Conservative governments that have driven
labour shortages that
down wages and working terms and conditions. Labour
exist in our economy and
will ensure all workers have full and equal rights from
public services.
day one, with a Real Living Wage for all.
The Conservative policy of pursuing net migration

targets has undermined our economy and our public
services, refusing entry to essential key workers
including nurses. It has created a hostile environment

within our communities, encouraged benefits that free movement has
the demonisation of migrants and brought both in terms of EU citizens
enabled the callous use of three million here and UK citizens abroad – and we
residents as bargaining chips in our will seek to protect those rights.
negotiations over EU withdrawal.
In accordance with our values and
Moreover, the Tories have not once domestic laws, we will uphold the
met their own targets. Their migration right to a family life for British, EU and
policies are a complete and damaging non-EU residents alike. We will end
failure, whichever way they are the deportation of family members of
looked at. people entitled to be here and end the
minimum income requirements which
We will scrap the 2014 Immigration
separate families.
Act introduced by the Tories with their
Liberal Democrat coalition partners.
We are for a levelling up of rights, not a
Refugees
race to the bottom. We will not tolerate
a two-tier system for those entitled to Refugees are victims of wars,
be here. environmental catastrophes,
famine or persecution.
The Windrush scandal continues
to create new victims. We will This government has failed its
end its injustices and provide fair international legal obligations to
compensation to those who have refugees and to allow people to
unfairly suffered. exercise their rights to seek asylum.
We will end indefinite detention, review A Labour government will uphold those
the alternatives to the inhumane rights and meet those obligations.
conditions of detention centres, and We will work with others to resume
close Yarl’s Wood and Brook House, rescue missions in the Mediterranean,
from which immediate savings would co-operate with the French authorities
contribute towards a fund of £20 million to put an end to the horrific camps,
to support the survivors of modern and establish safe and legal routes for
slavery, people trafficking and domestic asylum seekers.
violence. We will ensure justice for
Once here, refugees will have the right
migrant domestic workers and restore
to work, access to public services
the overseas domestic workers’ visa.
and will be treated humanely by
If we remain in the EU, freedom of government at all levels.
movement would continue. If we leave,
it will be subject to negotiations, but
we recognise the social and economic

SOCIAL SECURITY
Labour holds social While Labour wants a society in which people care for
security in the same one another, the Tories are trying to pitch us against
esteem as our health and each other.
education systems.
Under the Tories, the social security system has lost
It is there to help each
sight of its purpose. Poverty has become endemic,
of us in times of need.
the glue that binds our society together has come
If someone falls on hard
unstuck and, in the words of the United Nations, the
times – because they
UK’s social safety net ‘has been deliberately removed
lose their job, get sick or
and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos’.
lose a loved one – Labour
will help them live with The cruelty and heartlessness of the Tories has made
dignity and provide the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a
support to get them symbol of fear. When people feel the DWP is more
back on their feet. about harassment than a helping hand, something has
gone seriously wrong. Labour will completely change
this culture, replacing the DWP on day one with a
Department for Social Security, which will be there to
help and support people, not punish and police them.

We will put children at the heart of We will end the five-week wait by
everything we do, developing a cross- introducing an interim payment
governmental National Strategy for based on half an estimated monthly
Childhood focusing on health, security, entitlement. We will immediately
well-being and poverty. We will give suspend the Tories’ vicious sanction
effect to the UN Convention on the regime and ensure that employment
Rights of the Child. support is positive not punitive.
We will stop 300,000 children from

being in poverty by scrapping the
Universal Credit
benefit cap and the two child limit, so
The Tories’ flagship social security ending the immoral and outrageous
programme, Universal Credit (UC), ‘rape clause’. We will pay childcare costs
has been a catastrophe. It has pushed up front so that parents aren’t forced to
thousands of people into poverty, turn down work or get into debt to pay
caused families to lose their homes and for childcare.
forced parents to visit food banks in
Labour will protect women in abusive
order to feed their children.
relationships by splitting payments
Labour will scrap UC. We will and paying the child element to the
immediately stop moving people onto primary carer. We will make it easier for
it and design an alternative system that people to manage their living costs by
treats people with dignity and respect. introducing fortnightly payments and
Our ambition in designing this system paying the housing element directly to
will be to end poverty by guaranteeing landlords.
a minimum standard of living.
The Conservative’s ‘digital only’
We will start developing this system approach is excluding vulnerable
immediately. But we have learned the people. Labour will end the digital
lessons from Tory failure: major policy barrier and offer telephone, face-to-
change can’t be delivered overnight, face and outreach support. We will
especially when people’s lives depend recruit 5,000 additional advisors to
on it. So we will also implement an deliver this.
emergency package of reforms to
Tory cuts are pushing people into rent
mitigate some of the worst features
arrears and leaving them at risk of
of UC while we develop our
homelessness. We will stop housing
replacement system.
costs running away from benefits
by scrapping the bedroom tax and
increasing the Local Housing Allowance.

Disabled People We will stop the dehumanising Work
Capability and PIP Assessments,
Labour stands with and for disabled
which repeatedly and falsely find ill or
people. We will always challenge stigma
disabled people fit to work, and make
and discrimination wherever it is found
sure all assessments are done in-house.
and support the right of disabled
people to live independently and be Social security is meant to help
treated with respect. disabled people cope with the
additional costs and disadvantages
The Tories’ rhetoric of ‘scroungers’
they face. But the Tories have cut back
and ‘skivers’ has whipped up hatred of
that support to inadequate levels. Time
disabled people, with disability hate
and again disabled people have had to
crime skyrocketing, up 37% in the last
fight through the courts to receive the
year alone. Labour will never demonise
support they are entitled to.
disabled people or the unemployed.
Labour will make sure people who are ill
Labour follows the social model of
and disabled receive the support they
disability – it is not people’s condition
need to lead full, independent lives.
or impairment that disables them,
but society’s failure to adapt to those We will:
conditions and impairments. We are
• Increase Employment and Support
committed to removing the barriers
Allowance by £30 per week for those
constructed by society and ensuring
in the work-related activity group.
that disabled people can participate
fully and equally in our society. • Raise the basic rate of support for
children with disabilities to the level of
The Conservatives have created a
Child Tax Credits.
hostile environment for disabled people,
who have borne the brunt of Tory cuts. • Ensure that severely disabled people
The United Nations has said that the without a formal carer receive extra
Tories have systematically and gravely support to enable them to meet the
violated disabled people’s rights by extra costs they inevitably face.
denying them the support they are
We will support those who look after
entitled to.
others, increasing the Carer’s Allowance
Labour will end this hostile environment. to the level of the Jobseeker’s
Allowance.
We will give effect to the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities and amend the
Equality Act to reflect the social
model of disability.

We will help disabled people who want to raise the State Pension Age, leaving
to work by bringing back specialist it at 66. We will review retirement ages
employment advisors, introducing for physically arduous and stressful
a government-backed Reasonable occupations, including shift workers,
Adjustments Passport scheme to help in the public and private sectors.
people move between jobs more easily,
We will maintain the ‘triple lock’ and
and reviewing support for disabled
guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment,
people at work, including the Access to
free TV licences and free bus passes
Work scheme.
as universal benefits.
Thanks to automatic enrolment,

Pensions which was introduced by the last
Labour government, record numbers
People work hard for most of their lives
of employees are now in workplace
and deserve a decent retirement free of
pension schemes. But too many
financial stress and insecurity.
people are still not saving enough
Under the Tories, 400,000 pensioners for a comfortable retirement.
have been pushed into poverty and
We will stop people being auto-enrolled
a generation of women born in the
into rip-off schemes and seek to
1950s have had their pension age
widen and expand access for more
changed without fair notification.
low-income and self-employed workers.
This betrayal left millions of women
We will establish an independent
with no time to make alternative plans
Pensions’ Commission, modelled on the
– with sometimes devastating personal
Low Pay Commission, to recommend
consequences.
target levels for workplace pensions.
Labour recognises this injustice, and
We will create a single, comprehensive
will work with these women to design
and publicly run pensions dashboard
a system of recompense for the losses
that is fully transparent, including
and insecurity they have suffered.
information about costs and charges.
We will ensure that such an injustice
We will legislate to allow the CWU-
can never happen again by legislating
Royal Mail agreement for a collective
to prevent accrued rights to the state
pension scheme to proceed and allow
pension from being changed.
similar schemes.
The Conservatives have repeatedly
Labour has listened to the NUM and
raised the state pension age despite
in government will end the injustice of
overseeing a decline in life expectancy.
the state taking 50% of the surplus in
Labour will abandon the Tories’ plans
the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and

introduce new sharing arrangements
so that 10% goes to government and
90% stays with scheme members.
This new sharing arrangement will
also apply to the British Coal Staff
Superannuation Scheme.
We will ensure that the pensions of UK

citizens living overseas rise in line with
pensions in Britain.

HOUSING
Everyone has the right to There is no starker symbol of the failing housing
a decent, secure home. system than the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire.
In 1945, Labour promised A Labour government will bring system-wide change,
to ‘proceed with a so that a tragedy like Grenfell never happens again.
housing programme We will introduce a £1 billion Fire Safety Fund to fit
with the maximum sprinklers and other fire safety measures in all high-
practical speed until rise council and housing association tower blocks,
every family in this island enforce the replacement of dangerous Grenfell-
has a good standard of style cladding on all high-rise homes and buildings,
accommodation’. In 2019, while introducing mandatory building standards and
we renew that pledge. guidance, inspected and enforced by fully trained
But too many people Fire and Rescue Service fire safety officers.
are being denied their
Grenfell Tower was the confirmation of a more far-
right to a good home by
reaching crisis. Everyone knows of someone affected
our housing system that
by the housing crisis: younger people unable to buy
treats homes as financial
a first home, renters trapped in damp flats, families
assets rather than places
stuck on council waiting lists, leasehold home-owners
to live.
hit by unfair fees, people who are homeless living and
dying on our streets. The gap between the housing

haves and have-nots is at the heart Labour will tackle the climate crisis and
of the injustice in our country today. cut energy bills by introducing a tough,
new zero-carbon homes standard for
Since 2010, the Conservatives have
all new homes, and upgrading millions
slashed funding for new homes,
of existing homes to make them more
refused to regulate for higher standards
energy efficient. We will review the
and given a free hand to commercial
planning guidance for developments
property developers. There are fewer
in flood risk areas.
new homes for social rent, a million
more households stuck renting from
a private landlord, 900,000 fewer
Council and Social Homes
young people owning a home and
more than twice as many people The only way to deliver on everyone’s
sleeping on our streets. right to a good home is to build publicly
funded social housing.
Only Labour has a plan to fix the
housing crisis. We will act on every front Labour will deliver a new social
to bring the cost of housing down and housebuilding programme of more than
standards up, so that everyone has a a million homes over a decade, with
decent, affordable place to call home. council housing at its heart. By the end
of the Parliament we will be building
Labour will create a new Department
at an annual rate of at least 150,000
for Housing, make Homes England a
council and social homes, with 100,000
more accountable national housing
of these built by councils for social rent
agency and put councils in the driving
in the biggest council housebuilding
seat. We will set out a strategy for a
programme in more than a generation.
flourishing construction sector with a
We will establish a new duty on councils
skilled workforce and full rights at work.
to plan and build these homes in their
Labour will set up a new English area, and fund them to do so, with
Sovereign Land Trust, with powers to backing from national government.
buy land more cheaply for low-cost
We will scrap the Conservatives’ bogus
housing. We will use public land to build
definition of ‘affordable’, set as high
this housing, not sell it off to the highest
as 80% of market rents, and replace it
bidder. Developers will face new ‘use
with a definition linked to local incomes.
it or lose it’ taxes on stalled housing
These council and housing association
developments. We will keep the Land
homes will be more affordable than
Registry in public hands, and make
market housing and built to higher
ownership of land more transparent.
standards. We will end the conversion
We will make brownfield sites the
of office blocks to homes that
priority for development and protect
sidestep planning permission
the green belt.
through ‘permitted development’.

We will stop the haemorrhage of low- will bring empty homes back into use
cost homes by ending the right to by giving councils new powers to tax
buy, along with the forced conversion properties empty for over a year.
of social rented homes to so-called
Labour will end the scandal of leasehold
‘affordable rent’. We will review the case
for the millions who have bought their
for reducing the amount of housing
home but don’t feel like they own it.
debt councils currently hold. And we will
We will end the sale of new leasehold
give councils the powers and funding to
properties, abolish unfair fees and
buy back homes from private landlords.
conditions, and give leaseholders the
We will give tenants a stronger say in right to buy their freehold at a price
the management of their homes and they can afford. We will introduce
stop social cleansing by making sure equivalent rights for freeholders on
regeneration only goes ahead when privately owned estates.
it has the consent of residents, and
that all residents are offered a new
property on the same site and terms. Private Renters
We will fund a new Decent Homes
More than 11 million people rent from a
programme to bring all council and
private landlord and many of them are
housing association homes up to a
at the sharp end of the housing crisis.
good standard.
We will take urgent action to protect
private renters through rent controls,
open-ended tenancies, and new,
Home Ownership
binding minimum standards.
Under the Tories, home ownership is
Labour will stop runaway rents by
getting further out of reach for more
capping them with inflation, and give
and more people. Numbers of new
cities powers to cap rents further.
affordable homes to buy have fallen,
and fewer younger people can afford We will give renters the security they
their own home. We will build more need to make their rented housing a
low-cost homes reserved for first-time home, with new open-ended tenancies
buyers in every area, including Labour’s to stop unfair, ‘no fault’ evictions. We
new discount homes with prices linked will make sure every property is up to
to local incomes. scratch with new minimum standards,
enforced through nationwide licensing
We will reform Help to Buy to focus
and tougher sanctions for landlords who
it on first-time buyers on ordinary
flout the rules. We will fund new renters’
incomes. We will introduce a levy on
unions in every part of the country – to
overseas companies buying housing,
allow renters to organise and defend
while giving local people ‘first dibs’
their rights.
on new homes built in their area. We

We will get rid of the discriminatory We will bring in a new national levy on
rules that require landlords to check second homes used as holiday homes
people’s immigration status or that to help deal with the homelessness
allow them to exclude people on crisis, so that those who have done well
housing benefit. We will give councils from the housing market pay a bit more
new powers to regulate short-term lets to help those with no home.
through companies such as Airbnb.
We will save lives this winter by
ensuring extra shelters and support are
in place in all areas. And we’ll repeal the
Homelessness
Vagrancy Act and amend antisocial
No one should sleep without a roof behaviour legislation to stop the law
over their head in one of the richest being used against people because
countries in the world. But under the they are homeless.
Tories, the number of people sleeping
rough has more than doubled.
Over 125,000 children are now living in

temporary accommodation, without a
home to call their own – or the space
they need to thrive. Labour will tackle
the root causes of rising homelessness
with more affordable homes and
stronger rights for renters.
Labour will end rough sleeping within

five years, with a national plan driven by
a prime minister-led taskforce. We will
expand and upgrade hostels, turning
them into places where people can
turn their lives around. We will make
available 8,000 additional homes for
people with a history of rough sleeping.
We will tackle the wider causes of
homelessness, raising the Local
Housing Allowance in line with the 30th
percentile of local rents, and earmarking
an additional £1 billion a year for
councils’ homelessness services.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
For many people, politics We want our political institutions to be connected fully
doesn’t work. The to the wider electorate, and will take urgent steps to
Westminster bubble is refresh our democracy.
a world away from their
The time has come for the real changes that a Labour
daily lives. The Labour
government will bring.
Party was founded to
give working-class We will act immediately to end the hereditary
people a voice in politics. principle in the House of Lords, and work to abolish
the House of Lords in favour of Labour’s preferred
option of an elected Senate of the Nations and
Regions, but we also believe that the people must
be central to historic political changes.
The renewal of our Parliament will be subject to

recommendations made by a UK-wide Constitutional
Convention, led by a citizens’ assembly. This
Convention will answer crucial questions on how
power is distributed in the UK today, how nations
and regions can best relate to each other and how a
Labour government can best put power in the hands
of the people.
Only a Labour government will Tackling Vested Interests
safeguard the future of a devolved UK,
Labour will change how politics is
reforming the way in which it works to
funded, banning donations from tax
make it fit for the future.
avoiders and tax evaders, and closing
Britain is one of the most centralised loopholes that allow the use of shell
countries in Europe. Labour will companies to funnel dark money
decentralise decision-making and into politics.
strengthen local democracy. We
We will free the voices of civil society
reiterate our commitment to One
by repealing the Lobbying Act 2014
Yorkshire, and will make directly elected
and overhauling the rules that govern
mayors more accountable to local
corporate lobbying. We will introduce
councillors and elected representatives.
a lobbying register covering both
We will re-establish regional in-house lobbyists and think tanks and
Government Offices to make central extending to contacts made with all
government more attuned to our senior government employees, not
English regions, to support our regional just ministers.
investments, and to enable the shift of
We will also increase the financial
political power away from Westminster.
penalties available to the Electoral
Our democratic revolution will also Commission and require imprints for
extend to elections. digital political adverts.
A Labour government will repeal the We will stop MPs from taking paid
Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, which second jobs, with limited exemptions
has stifled democracy and propped up to maintain professional registrations
weak governments. We will maintain like nursing. We will replace ACOBA,
650 constituencies and respond the business appointments committee,
objectively to future, independent with a sufficiently resourced and
boundary reviews. We will oversee the empowered new body, governed by a
largest extension of the franchise in diverse and representative board and
generations, reducing the voting age established in law. We will also overhaul
to 16, giving full voting rights to all the system of ministerial appointments
UK residents, making sure everyone to public office.
who is entitled to vote can do so by
introducing a system of automatic voter
registration, and abandoning plans
to introduce voter ID which has been
shown to harm democratic rights.

We will bring greater transparency by Women in Northern Ireland should
extending Freedom of Information have access to abortions in Northern
rules to cover private providers of Ireland. A Labour government will fully
public services, setting new standards implement new laws on equal marriage
of consistent disclosure practice and in Northern Ireland so that same-
ending the six-month time limit in which sex couples are no longer treated as
the Information Commissioner can second-class citizens. We will work
prosecute the deliberate destruction with all major parties in Northern Ireland
of public records. to provide a good platform for the
restoration of devolution alongside
bringing forward and implementing
Northern Ireland a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland as
outlined in the Good Friday Agreement.
The Good Friday Agreement and long-
term peace in Northern Ireland is one A Labour government will also protect
of the great achievements of Labour Northern Ireland and its people in any
in government. Therefore, as a priority, future Brexit outcome by ensuring
Labour will work quickly and tirelessly to that there is no return to a hard border
secure the return of a genuine power- between Northern Ireland and the
sharing government in Northern Ireland. Republic of Ireland or the creation of a
regulatory border down the Irish Sea.
The devolved power-sharing institutions
have not been running in Stormont
for over 1,000 days. During this period
Wales
people have suffered in the face of a
funding crisis as austerity continues to Labour’s constitutional convention
damage public services, which Labour will include the Welsh Government’s
will resolve. 20-point plan for the future of the UK
to better recognise the realities of a
Working with a new assembly and
devolved UK.
power-sharing government, Labour
will invest an extra £1.9 billion to end Alongside this work, we need long-term
austerity and rebuild public services in reform of how the UK allocates public
Northern Ireland. expenditure to ensure that it reflects the
needs of different parts of our country
and that no nation or region of the UK is
unfairly disadvantaged.
Labour in Wales has pioneered the

social partnership approach. With a UK
Labour government investing an extra

£3.4 billion in Wales, and a UK Ministry Scotland
for Employment Rights we will be able
Labour in government will give around
to do much more.
700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise
Wales led the first industrial revolution when we introduce a Real Living Wage
and with a Labour government in of £10 an hour.
Westminster, we will be at the forefront
We will also provide Scotland with at
of the Green Industrial Revolution
least around £100 billion of additional
of the future. We will create jobs in
resources over two terms. This
Wales through environmental energy
investment will transform Scotland’s
schemes such as the Swansea Bay
people, communities, public services
tidal lagoon project.
and industries.
The Tories have let down the people
As part of that additional resource
of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) by failing to
Labour would want to see £10 billion
deliver the Wylfa project. Labour will
from our new National Transformation
work with people on the island to
Fund invested in the building of 120,000
maximise its potential for new nuclear
council and social homes in Scotland
energy, alongside investment in
over the next ten years, ending the
renewables.
housing crisis and creating up to
Nine years of Tory cuts have done 50,000 jobs.
untold damage and the Thomas
This is the difference a UK Labour
Commission on Justice in Wales is clear
government would make to Scotland
that the justice system is not working
for Wales. Labour governments in Wales As part of our Green Industrial
and Westminster will work together, Revolution we will invest £6 billion in
using the Commission’s report, to put retrofitting houses across Scotland,
that right. which will help tackle the climate
emergency at the same time as
Three years on from the 2016 EU
lowering bills, ending fuel poverty
referendum we understand much
and creating 35,000 jobs.
more about how Wales will be uniquely
exposed to a hard Brexit. Only Labour A UK Labour government will also
will put this decision back in the hands provide the Scottish National
of the people, and in Wales the Welsh Investment Bank, under Scottish
Labour government will campaign control, with £20 billion of lending
to remain. power to deliver funds to local projects
and Scotland’s small businesses.

Labour believes that Scottish
independence would be economically
devastating and it would be the many
not the few who would pay the price.
Scotland needs the transformative
investment coming from a Labour
government, not another referendum
and not independence.
A UK Labour government will focus on

tackling the climate emergency, ending
austerity and cuts, and getting Brexit
sorted. That’s why in the early years of
a UK Labour government we will not
agree to a Section 30 order request if
it comes from the Scottish Government.

THE FINAL
SAY ON
BREXIT
89 THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT
87
THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT
Labour will give the Only a Labour government will put this decision
people the final say in the hands of the people to give you the final say.
on Brexit. Within three This will be a legally binding referendum and we
months of coming will implement the people’s decision immediately.
to power, a Labour
The Tories have failed for three years to get Brexit
government will secure
sorted, in a shambles of repeated delays and
a sensible deal. And
uncertainty. Whether people voted Leave or Remain
within six months, we
in 2016, people and businesses are crying out for
will put that deal to a
politicians in Westminster to finally focus on the
public vote alongside
wider challenges we face.
the option to remain.
A Labour government Labour rules out a no-deal Brexit, and we will end the
will implement whatever scandal of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money
the people decide. being wasted on no-deal preparations. No deal has
never been a viable option. It would do enormous
harm to jobs, rights, security and to our NHS.
Labour has led the campaign to stop a no-deal Brexit.

A majority Tory government would pose a renewed
threat of the UK crashing out with no deal. Only a
Labour government can prevent this.

We will rip up the deeply flawed • Dynamic alignment on workers’ rights,
deal negotiated by Boris Johnson. consumer rights and environmental
We opposed his deal precisely because protections so that UK standards keep
it would do such harm to workers’ rights, pace across Europe as a minimum,
environmental protections and to our allowing the UK to lead the way,
manufacturing industry. not fall behind.
Boris Johnson’s deal is even worse than • Continued participation in EU

Theresa May’s: it would leave the UK agencies and funding programmes,
£70 billion worse off by 2029; it would including in such vital areas of
give the green light to deregulation co-operation as the environment,
undermining UK manufacturing; and it scientific research and culture.
would leave our NHS at the mercy of
• Clear commitments on future security
a trade deal with Donald Trump. This
arrangements, including access to the
sell-out deal is unacceptable to Labour.
European Arrest Warrant and shared
Labour will secure a new Brexit deal databases, making people safer at
– one that protects jobs, rights and home and abroad.
the environment, avoids a hard border
Labour will secure a revised Withdrawal
in Northern Ireland and protects the
Agreement that provides legal protection
Good Friday Agreement and the peace
for citizens’ rights, meets our international
process. We will also ensure that there is
obligations – particularly with regard
no change in the status or sovereignty
to the Good Friday Agreement – and
of Gibraltar.
ensures an appropriate transition period
Our deal will be based on the principles to allow businesses and citizens to
we have set out over the last two years. adapt to any new arrangements.
It will include: We will also secure robust and legally

binding protections for workers’ rights,
• A permanent and comprehensive
consumer standards and environmental
UK-wide customs union, which is vital
protections, and ensure level-playing-
to protect our manufacturing industry
field protections are maintained. Labour
and allows the UK to benefit from joint
will never accept an outcome that puts
UK-EU trade deals, and is backed by
rights and standards at risk.
businesses and trade unions.
Once we have secured this new deal
• Close alignment with the Single
we will put it to a legally binding
Market – ensuring we have a strong
referendum alongside the option
future economic relationship with the
of remaining in the EU.
EU that can support UK businesses.
This will take place within the first six
months of a Labour government.

Labour is the only party that can farmers, our fishing industry and
heal the harmful divisions in our protection for our natural environment.
communities and address the
Labour recognises the huge benefits of
devastation caused by 10 years of
immigration to our country. Many British
austerity, ruthlessly imposed on society
citizens have benefited from freedom
by the Tories and Lib Dems. While other
of movement, which has given them
parties have exacerbated polarisation,
the opportunity to study, work or retire
defining everyone by how they voted
abroad. Likewise our public services and
in the 2016 EU Referendum, Labour has
our industry have benefited from skilled
consistently reached across this divide.
workers coming here.
Only Labour will deliver a final say
Labour believes that citizens’ rights
referendum.
should never have been used as
Only Labour will offer the choice of a bargaining chip in the Brexit
remaining in the EU, or leaving with negotiations, and recognises the huge
a sensible deal. anxiety this has caused for the three
million EU nationals living in the UK and
This final say referendum will not be a
the 1.2 million UK nationals who have
re-run of 2016. It will be legally binding.
made their home elsewhere in the EU.
Labour will implement the decision of
the British people immediately. We will end the uncertainty created by
the EU Settlement Scheme by granting
Labour will introduce legislation to
EU nationals the automatic right to
facilitate this referendum and to provide
continue living and working in the UK.
legal certainty and stability following
This new declaratory system will allow
the result.
EU nationals the chance to register
We will introduce a Withdrawal for proof of status if they wish, but will
Agreement and Referendum Bill, mean they no longer have to apply
providing the legal basis to conduct to continue living and working in this
and implement the outcome of the country. This will help ensure reciprocal
referendum. treatment for UK citizens living in the
EU. It will also prevent a repeat of the
We will scrap the Brexit legislation
shameful Windrush scandal and avoid
currently proposed by the Tories and
unnecessarily criminalising hundreds
introduce new legislation that is in line
of thousands of EU nationals.
with Labour’s priorities and principles
to protect our economy, trade, jobs If in a referendum the British people
and rights. decide to remain in the EU, this must
not mean accepting the status quo.
This will include new legislation to
Labour will work with partners across
ensure support and certainty for UK
Europe to make the case for radical

reform of the EU – in particular to
ensure that its collective strength
is focused on tackling the climate
emergency, tax evasion and ending
austerity and inequality.
The EU needs a new political direction

and, if the people decide the UK
should remain in the EU, Labour will
lead the way to ensure that change.
For too long a politically inflicted wave

of austerity has damaged communities
across Britain and across Europe.
The most vulnerable members in
our society have suffered, while the
super-rich continue to be rewarded by
a system that allows them to thrive at
the expense of the many.
This must change. If the country

decides to remain, a Labour
government will take a different
approach and strive to ensure that
the EU works for people across our
communities. The EU should focus on
policies that value investment, protect
public services and make those who
have the most pay their fair share.
If people decide to leave, a Labour

government will work constructively
with the EU on vital issues of mutual
interest and to the mutual benefit of
the UK and EU. But we will leave the EU.
Most importantly, under a Labour

government, you will get the final
say on Brexit.

A NEW
INTERNATIONALISM
95 A NEW INTERNATIONALISM
97 EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY
100 DEFENCE AND SECURITY
103 INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
93
A NEW INTERNATIONALISM
Labour will put human International peace and security will be a primary
rights, international law objective of a Labour government’s foreign policy.
and tackling climate Britain deserves better than the Conservatives’
change at the heart of our reckless approach to complex global challenges or
international policies, and the outsourcing of UK foreign policy to US President
use our global influence Donald Trump.
to end the ‘bomb first,
Failed military interventions in countries like
talk later’ approach to
Libya have worsened security across North Africa,
security. Labour will
accelerating the refugee crisis.
always do what is needed
to protect the security of Our approach will be based on our values.
people in the UK. Within the first year of government Labour will:
• Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that no

prime minister can bypass Parliament to commit
to conventional military action. Unlike the
Conservatives, we will implement every single
recommendation of the Chilcot Inquiry.
• Conduct an audit of the impact of
Britain’s colonial legacy to understand
our contribution to the dynamics of
violence and insecurity across regions
previously under British colonial rule.
• Invest an additional £400 million in our

diplomatic capacity to secure Britain’s
role as a country that promotes peace,
delivers ambitious global climate
agreements and works through
international organisations
to secure political settlements to
critical issues.

EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY
Internationalism is at We will:
the core of the Labour
•E
stablish a judge-led inquiry into our country’s
movement. We recognise
alleged complicity in rendition and torture,
our responsibility to
and the operation of secret courts.
confront injustices we see
today and to correct the • Issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh
injustices of the past. massacre, and hold a public review into Britain’s
role in the Amritsar massacre.
• Allow the people of the Chagos Islands and their

descendants the right to return to the lands from
which they should never have been removed.
•U
phold the human rights of the people of West
Papua and recognise the rights of the people of
Western Sahara.
We have a duty to stand up for the security and

sovereignty of our overseas territories, including the
Falklands, and for the rights of our citizens and dual-
nationals abroad, and will continue fighting for justice
on behalf of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe the Rohingya community in Myanmar
and other British nationals wrongly and the indiscriminate bombardment of
imprisoned or suffering mistreatment civilians in Yemen.
in captivity abroad.
• We will work through the UN and
the Commonwealth to insist on the
protection of human rights for Sri
Human Rights
Lanka’s minority Tamil and Muslim
Human rights and international populations.
humanitarian law are fundamental
• Appoint human-rights advisers
pillars of a secure global system. These
to work across the Foreign Office and
principles are under threat. Some of the
government to prioritise a co-ordinated
world’s most powerful states choose to
approach to human rights.
sell arms to human-rights abusing states.
Conservative ministers, including Boris • Advocate for human rights at every
Johnson, have signed off well over bilateral diplomatic meeting.
£2 billion of arms sales to repressive
regimes since June 2017.
Climate Diplomacy
Around the world, human rights
defenders and civil society activists There is no greater injustice today than
remain vulnerable to attacks, often carried countries in the Global South paying
out with impunity. the price for a climate crisis they did not
cause. Yet some world leaders, including
We will:
US President Donald Trump and Brazilian
• Immediately suspend the sale of arms President Jair Bolsonaro, champion a
to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen and to climate-change denial agenda.
Israel for arms used in violation of the
Britain’s climate-change diplomacy
human rights of Palestinian civilians, and
was respected internationally, playing
conduct a root-and-branch reform of
an important role in securing the Paris
our arms exports regime so ministers
Agreement, following the leading role
can never again turn a blind eye to
the UK played in securing the Kyoto
British-made weapons being used
Agreement. However, Boris Johnson –
to target innocent civilians.
who has described global warming as a
• Reform the international rules- ‘primitive fear… without foundation’ – has
based order to secure justice and overseen a 60% cut in the UK’s global
accountability for breaches of human network of climate experts.
rights and international law, such as
Only Labour can rebuild Britain’s
the bombing of hospitals in Syria, the
leadership on the most serious threat
illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, the
to our shared humanity.
use of rape as a weapon of war against

We will: conflict, which must be settled on the
basis of justice and international law.
• Rebuild our climate expertise
All sides must avoid taking action that
within the Foreign Office, putting
would make peace harder to achieve.
climate diplomacy at the heart of
That means both an end to the blockade,
our foreign policy.
occupation and settlements, and an
• Use our influence at the UN, EU, G7, G20, end to rocket and terror attacks. Labour
World Bank, the Commonwealth and other will continue to press for an immediate
global institutions to promote policies return to meaningful negotiations leading
to tackle the climate emergency. to a diplomatic resolution. A Labour
government will immediately recognise
• Use our diplomatic expertise to
the state of Palestine.
negotiate and deliver more ambitious
global targets to deal with the climate Labour will take all lawful action
emergency, starting with COP 26 in necessary to counter and confront all
Glasgow next year. forms of terrorism, and we will advocate a
long-term multinational political strategy,
led by regional actors, to tackle the
Prioritising Conflict Prevention spread of extremism.
and Building Peace
We believe effective diplomacy
The Conservatives have failed to play can address the drivers of conflict
a constructive role in resolving the and insecurity.
world’s most pressing humanitarian
We will:
crises, including in Kashmir, Yemen and
Myanmar, and the escalation of tensions • Build support for UN reform,
with Iran. The treatment of the Kurdish including assessing and developing
people in Syria, including by Turkey, and democratisation initiatives, and
of the Uighurs in China has been met improving the engagement of the
with total inaction and apathy by the General Assembly in decision-making to
current UK government. In some cases, ensure its institutions are more effective
they set aside regard for international at achieving peace.
law, including refusing to criticise Crown
• Prioritise our responsibility to prevent
Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi
conflict by investing in local capacities
Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal
for peacebuilding in areas of conflict
Khashoggi.
– advocating for political, multilateral
Labour is committed to a comprehensive strategies for peace.
peace in the Middle East based on a two-
• Act immediately to urge negotiations
state solution – a secure Israel alongside
towards a political resolution to conflict
a secure and viable state of Palestine.
wherever it arises, including in the Middle
There can be no military solution to this
East and sub-Saharan Africa.
DEFENCE AND SECURITY
The primary duty An incoming Labour government will undertake a
of government is to Strategic Defence and Security Review to assess
guarantee the security the security challenges facing Britain, including new
of people in the UK. forms of hybrid, cyber and remote warfare. This review
Labour’s defence will also take account of the climate emergency, and
policy will be strategic associated threats of resource competition, involuntary
and evidence-led. migration and violent conflict.
Our security at home
Under the Conservatives:
is made stronger
when the security of • Boris Johnson refuses to publish the report
others elsewhere is into possible foreign interference by Russia
guaranteed too. in UK democracy.
• Trained army personnel have been cut from 102,000

to just over 74,000.
• Armed forces and their families have been forced to

live in sub-standard accommodation.
• Failing outsourced contracts have not been

terminated.

• Our Armed Forces personnel and will seek greater consistency in the
received below-inflation pay rises implementation of the Armed Forces
for seven years. Covenant by public authorities.
The security challenges we face know We will pay a lump sum of £50,000
no borders. Labour will increase funding to each surviving British nuclear-test
for UN peacekeeping operations to veteran to support them and their
£100 million. We will maintain our families with the health conditions
commitment to NATO and our close they have suffered as a result of
relationship with our European partners, exposure to radiation. We will also
and we will use our influence at the ensure that black and Asian soldiers
United Nations to support peace and who fought in Britain’s colonial armies
security worldwide. receive a full apology and explore
ways to compensate them for the
Labour supports the renewal of the
discriminatory demob payments they
Trident nuclear deterrent. Labour
received compared to their white
will also actively lead multilateral
counterparts serving at the same rank
efforts under our obligations to the
in the same regiments.
Non-Proliferation Treaty to create a
nuclear-free world. The UK defence industry is world-
leading and Labour will continue to
Labour’s commitment to spend at least
work with manufacturers, unions and
2% of GDP on defence will guarantee
export partners in line with Labour’s
that our armed forces are versatile and
foreign policy to support innovation
capable of fulfilling the full range of
in this sector to ensure it maintains
roles and obligations.
its highly skilled workforce and world-
We will scrap the public sector pay class apprenticeship programme. We
cap, which resulted in a real-terms are committed to procurement that
pay cut for our armed forces, ensure supports UK defence manufacturing
decent housing for forces members including our aerospace and
and their families, and guarantee better shipbuilding, alongside a vibrant
access for all forces children to good supply chain that includes the British
quality local schools. We will consult steel industry and other component
on creating a representative body for manufacturing companies providing
the armed forces, akin to the Police good jobs throughout supply chains.
Federation. Labour will publish a Defence Industrial
Strategy White Paper, including a
Labour will improve opportunities for
National Shipbuilding Strategy, that
veterans through access to lifelong
keeps all Royal Navy and Royal Fleet
learning and training, housing and
Auxiliary shipbuilding contracts in the
mental and physical health services,

UK, to secure a long-term future for the
industry and its workers.
Reducing our carbon footprint can

only happen with ambitious emissions
reduction targets at the Ministry of
Defence, one of government’s biggest
energy users. So as part of our Green
Industrial Revolution, we will create
a Climate Change Sustainability
Committee within the department to
review the feasibility of increasing the
use of sustainable energy in defence,
and publish a strategy to accelerate the
safe and sustainable recycling of our
old nuclear submarines.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The scale of the Labour will use Britain’s influence within the World
challenges facing our Bank, IMF and WTO to transform the rules of the
world are enormous. global economy so they work for the many.
Conflict, climate change
We recognise the need to address historic injustices
and a global economy
and will reset our relationships with countries in the
rigged in favour of a tiny
Global South based on principles of redistribution
elite are driving instability
and equality, not outdated notions of charity or
and inequality across the
imperialist rule. Unlike the Conservatives, Labour
world. A bold international
is fully committed to a standalone Department for
development policy driven
International Development (DfID), with an aid budget
by social justice has never
of at least 0.7% of gross national income. We will
been more needed.
introduce the reduction of inequality as a goal for all
aid spending alongside existing poverty reduction and
gender equality goals.
For the Conservatives, too often humanitarian aid is

undermined by their disastrous foreign policy, as in
Yemen. Under Labour, we will ensure policy coherence
across our international-facing departments. Under

Labour, DfID will continue to respond damage in their operations and supply
to the world’s biggest crises and will chains, including criminal liability in the
ensure humanitarian aid is provided most serious cases.
according to need, not whether the
• Implement a gender transformative
UK has commerical or other interests
approach across all our international
in the country. DfID will assume a
work, including tripling funding for
strong position in cross-government
grassroots women’s organisations
decision making, including a permanent
and establishing an independent
seat on the Export Control Joint Unit
ombudsman to tackle abuse in the
responsible for licensing arms exports.
development sector.
Our international programme
Labour believes in climate justice.
will be based on human rights
Wealthy countries like the UK bear the
and gender equality.
greatest responsibility for the climate
We will: emergency. Countries in the Global
South that have done the least to cause
• Uphold basic rights to education,
climate change are already facing the
health and clean water by establishing
worst impacts, such as rising sea levels,
a new Unit for Public Services
more frequent hurricanes and greater
within DfID, which will include
food insecurity. We have a duty to right
increasing direct budgetary support
this wrong.
to governments so they can build
sustainable services for their citizens. We will:
• Promote fairer international tax rules • Provide a top-up of new and

and help countries in the Global South additional spending on international
build progressive tax systems to climate finance to bring the total to
finance essential public services. £4 billion a year, and also support
international calls for compensation
• Support trade unions internationally
to those nations already suffering loss
in their efforts to promote collective
and damage.
bargaining for better pay and
conditions, and include binding social • Stop all aid spending on fossil fuel
chapters in trade agreements to production overseas, redirecting it
safeguard workers’ rights. towards clean, renewable energy
for all.
• Support ongoing UN efforts to introduce
a binding international treaty on business • End all UK Export Finance support
and human rights, and make companies to fossil fuel projects, and reject any
legally accountable for failing to prevent trade deals that conflict with our
human rights abuses or environmental climate principles.

• Undertake a root-and-branch reform • Introduce legislation to ensure
of CDC Group plc (DfID’s principal transparency and parliamentary
vehicle for encouraging private scrutiny of trade and investment
sector investment in developing agreements.
countries), transforming it into a green
•R
eject any trade agreements that
development bank mandated to
undermine labour standards or
fight poverty, inequality and climate
environmental protections, and rule
change.
out UK Export Finance support to
Labour respects the crucial role played companies engaged in bribery or
by small-scale farmers the world over in corruption.
guaranteeing people the right to food.
Labour recognises the right to essential
We will: medicines as an integral part of the
right to health.
• Establish an aid-funded Food
Sovereignty Fund to enable small- We will:
scale farmers in the Global South
•P
romote fairer international patent
to gain access to land, seeds and
regimes that do not prevent countries
finance, and uphold indigenous
from accessing essential medicines
peoples’ right to land.
and support efforts to increase the
• Support sustainable local food and transparency of medicines pricing so
agriculture markets in the fight against governments can negotiate fair prices.
climate change.
• In the long term, ensure that all
Labour believes human rights should medicines developed with the support
drive our trade policy. of UK taxpayer money are accessible
to people in the Global South.
We will:
• Implement UK arms export controls

to the highest standard, putting an
end to exports where they might be
used in violation of human rights or
international humanitarian law.
• Ensure government procurement

contracts are not granted to
companies that are complicit in
serious human rights abuses, and
require all UK trade agreements
to be consistent with international
humanitarian law.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY JEREMY CORBYN 6

A GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 9

REBUILD OUR PUBLIC SERVICES 27

TACKLE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY 57

THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT 87

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We will deliver full-fibre broadband Labour will create a National Education

Labour will protect our security at home

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The Tories wasted a decade serving the interests of

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We will launch a Climate Apprenticeship

Under this programme, employers

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Labour will ensure that councils can improve bus

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We will reform taxi and private hire

We will adopt an ambitious

Labour recognises the Davies

We will take action to end nationality-

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We will maintain and continuously improve the

Our polluted air contributes to over 40,000 premature

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A Labour government will maintain

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We will set maximum sustainable

We aim to achieve net-zero-carbon

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We will pay for this by creating a fairer taxation system,

We will reverse some of the Tories’ cuts to corporation

We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to

REBUILD OUR PUBLIC SERVICES  29

When services are procured from

We will repair the damage the Tories

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Our immediate task is to repair our health services.

Our urgent priority is to end NHS privatisation.

Our mission is to create the conditions to prevent

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As medical technologies advance,

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Under a Labour government the Social Care

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Our investments in social care services

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Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year-

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The narrowing curriculum is We will end the fragmentation and

The academies system is Under our system:

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TACKLE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY 59

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• Remove unnecessary restrictions on Working Time

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• Champion the social model of We will work with employers, trade

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• Put LGBT+ equality at the heart of

• Take steps to safeguard LGBT+ rights

• Tackle the homelessness and rough

• Provide sufficient funding for schools

• Fully fund sexual health services and

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