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==Government and the Constitution==
======Scrap the House of Lords and create a democratic 2nd House • Decentralise power to the regions • Move parliament to the Midlands and create an English assembly • Devolve power to Scotland and Wales with a federal model • Introduce automatic voter registration • Ban direct donations to MPs • Restrict donation size to political parties • Ban paid lobbying • Ban acting MPs holding a job outside parliament • Reform expenses system to match the way business works • Tougher jail sentences for MPs breaking the law, particularly for corruption while in office • MP pay freeze for 10 yearsMP wages to be linked to national average wage======
 
==Health==
======Healthcare publicly owned and free at point of delivery • Minimum 15% pay-rise for health workers • Invest in the NHS • Free training for health workers • Scrap carpark charges • Invest heavily in social and mental health care and ensure health services are seamless • Protect and invest in local hospitals and health clinics • Re-introduce free dental care • Focus on child health through sugar tax and healthy school meals • National Pharmaceutical Agency to ensure fair access to drugs for both the NHS and developing countries • Health workers to receive rate of inflation pay rises • Rate of inflation to be decided by independent board and to be subject to union agreement • Overhaul NHS, removing bureaucracy and middle managers======
 
==Education==
=======Free childcare for all pre-school children • Reintroduce SureStart • Free life-long education • Scrap early-years formal testing • Bring schools back into local authority control • End tax breaks for private schools • Reintroduce adequate maintenance grants • Build student accommodation and ensure it is publicly owned • Return universities and colleges to public ownership • Scrap Ofsted • Scrap performance pay • Scrap SATS • Scrap private education and base education model on Finnish system • Scrap tuition fees • Redefine degrees so technical degrees from FE / HE hold the same weight • Learn from Covid and introduce continuous grading • Enforce secular school system • Project based learning and introduce the 2010 creative learning syllabus=======
 
==Housing==