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A Green Industrial Revolution

Economy and Energy A Green New Deal Transform our economy into one low in carbon kick-start a Green Industrial Revolution that will create one million jobs Establish a world-leading Green Industrial Revolution Work in partnership with the workforce and their trade unions in every sector of our economy Priortise sustainability Investment Office for Budget Responsibility to incorporate climate and environmental impacts into its forecasts so that the cost of not acting will be factored into every fiscal decision Launch a National Transformation Fund of £400 billion Treasury’s investment rules to guarantee that every penny spent is compatible with our climate and environmental targets £250 billion will directly fund the transition through a Green Transformation Fund dedicated to renewable and low-carbon energy and transport, biodiversity and environmental restoration Create a National Investment Bank, backed up by a network of Regional Development Banks Provide £250 billion of lending for enterprise, infrastructure and innovation over 10 years Banks mandated to lend in line with our mission to decarbonise our economy while increasing productivity and creating good jobs across the country Smaller loans will be available through our new Post Bank based in Post Office branches Improve the fitness of our financial authorities to mobilise green investment Change the criteria a company must meet to be listed on the London Stock Exchange so that any company that fails to contribute to tackling the climate and environmental emergency is delisted Levelling Up Labour will make sure that investment is spread evenly across the whole country Give powers and funding to every region and nation of the UK Local people and communities will be given far greater control over their own lives and prospects A Local Transformation Fund in each English region and to devolved governments will be used exclusively to fund infrastructure projects decided at a local level Regional Development Banks will be governed by boards made up of key local stakeholders Regional Development Banks will set priorities for lending, giving every region and nation a new and powerful lever to rebuild their economy Place the National Transformation Fund Unit, a key part of the Treasury, in the North of England Energy Develop the recommendations of our ‘30 by 2030’ report to put the UK on track for a net-zero-carbon energy system within the 2030s Deliver nearly 90% of electricity and 50% of heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030 Build: 7,000 new offshore wind turbines Build: 2,000 new onshore wind turbines Build: Enough solar panels to cover 22,000 football pitches Build: New nuclear power needed for energy security Trial and expand tidal energy Invest to reduce the costs of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production Upgrade almost all of the UK’s 27 million homes to the highest energy-efficiency standards Eliminate fuel poverty Introduce a zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes Roll out technologies like heat pumps, solar hot water and hydrogen Invest in district heat networks using waste heat Expand power storage and invest in grid enhancements and interconnectors Expand distributed and community energy Immediately and permanently ban fracking Support energy workers through transition Introduce a windfall tax on oil companies Provide a strategy to safeguard the people, jobs and skills that depend on the offshore oil and gas industry Ownership Put people and planet before profit Bring our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership Utilities will by service-users and workers Work with energy unions to support energy workers through the transition A new UK National Energy Agency will own and maintain the national grid infrastructure and oversee the delivery of our decarbonisation targets 14 new Regional Energy Agencies will replace the existing district network operators and hold statutory responsibility for decarbonising electricity and heat and reducing fuel poverty The supply arms of the Big Six energy companies will be brought into public ownership Industry and Innovation Take full responsibility for our carbon footprint instead of passing the buck to other countries Assess the emissions the UK imports as well as those it produces, and recommend policies to tackle them Make UK industry the greenest in the world Create an innovative nation, setting a target for 3% of GDP to be spent on research and development (R&D) by 2030 Increase direct support for R&D and reforming the innovation ecosystem to better ‘crowd in’ private investment Establish a Foundation Industries Sector Council to provide a clean and long-term future for our existing heavy industries Fund R&D into newer technologies like hydrogen and carbon capture and storage Steel: Public procurement, taking action on industrial energy prices Steel: Exempt new capital from business rates Steel: Invest in R&D, building three new steel recycling plants and upgrading existing production sites Ensure that new technologies are engineered, manufactured and exported from here Put British innovation at the heart of our procurement Strengthen our manufacturing and engineering sectors and supply chains Require all companies bidding for public contracts to recognise trade unions Pay suppliers on time and demonstrate equalities best practice Invest in three new gigafactories and four metal reprocessing plants to ensure the UK’s automotive sector isn’t left behind by the electric revolution Invest in a new plastics remanufacturing industry creating thousands of jobs Champion exports from the environmental goods and services sector Uphold the highest environmental and social regulations in all our trade relations Skills The Green Industrial Revolution will create at least one million well-paid, unionised jobs Train people in the skills they need to access these jobs of the future Make it easier for employers to spend the apprenticeship levy by allowing it to be used for a wider range of accredited training Launch a Climate Apprenticeship programme Employers will be expected to allocate 25% of the funds in their Apprenticeship Levy accounts to training Climate Apprentices Targeted bursaries will be available to women, BAME people, care leavers, ex-armed forces personnel, and people with disabilities Help small businesses by increasing the amount that can be transferred to non-levy-paying employers to 50% Introduce an online matching service to help levy-paying businesses find smaller businesses to transfer their funds to Transport Build a sustainable, affordable, accessible and integrated transport system Cutting emissions will drive our transport policies Public expenditure on transport will ensure that it promotes environmental sustainability and contributes to decarbonisation Ensure that councils can improve bus services by regulating and taking public ownership of bus networks Give councils resources and full legal powers to achieve improved bus services cost-effectively Introduce free bus travel for under-25s Reinstate the 3,000 routes that have been cut, particularly hitting rural communities Bring our railways back into public ownership Rebuild the fragmented railways as a nationally integrated public service Improve accessibility for disabled people Ensure safe staffing levels and end driver-only operation Implement a full, rolling programme of electrification Ensure continuity of skills, jobs and supply chain capacity to reduce costs, improve productivity and support the economic benefits of Labour’s Green Industrial Revolution Introduce a long-term investment plan including delivering Crossrail for the North as part of improved connectivity across the northern regions Consult with local communities to reopen branch lines Extend high-speed rail networks nationwide by completing the full HS2 route to Scotland, taking full account of the environmental impacts of different route options Deliver rail electrification and expansion across the whole UK Ensure that these major infrastructure projects are a model of good employment practice Ensure that these major infrastructure projects pay due regard to the environmental impact Promote the use of rail freight Expand the provision of publicly owned rail freight services Increase the funding available for cycling and walking Bring together transport and land-use planning to create towns and cities in which walking and cycling are the best choice Help children’s health and well-being by ensuring street designs provide freedom for physically active outdoor play Introduce measures to ensure the zones around our schools are safer, with cleaner air Aim by 2030 to ending new sales of combustion engine vehicles Position the UK at the forefront of the development and manufacture of ultra-low emission vehicles Invest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and in electric community car clubs Accelerate the transition of our public sector car fleets and our public buses to zero-emissions vehicles Reform taxi and private hire services: Review of licensing authority jurisdictions, setting national minimum standards of safety and accessibility Reform Taxi and private hire services: Update regulations to keep pace with technological change and to close loopholes to ensure a level playing field Adopt an ambitious Vision Zero approach to UK road safety, striving for zero deaths and serious injuries Invest to make our neglected local roads, pavements and cycleways safer Review all tolled crossings Any expansion of airports must pass our tests on air quality, noise pollution, climate change obligations and countrywide benefits Take action to end nationality-based discrimination in seafarer pay Environment Review and improve protected area designations, from National Parks to local nature reserves and urban green spaces Introduce a Climate and Environment Emergency Bill setting out in law robust, binding new standards for decarbonisation, nature recovery, environmental quality and habitats and species protection maintain and continuously improve the existing EU standards of environmental regulation A Healthy Environment Introduce a new Clean Air Act Clean Air Act: Vehicle scrappage scheme Clean Air Act: Clean air zones, complying with World Health Organisation limits for fine particles and nitrous oxides Provide an extra £5.6 billion in funding to improve the standard of flood defences Prioritise areas at risk in North West England, Yorkshire and the East Midlands that have been neglected by Conservative investments Nature Restoration Embark on an ambitious programme of tree planting, with both forestry and native woodland species Fully fund the Environment Agency and other frontline environment agencies Improve upstream river management Create new National Parks alongside a revised system of other protected area designations Establish a new environmental tribunal to ensure that administrative decisions are consistent with environmental and nature-recovery obligations Land Maintain agricultural and rural structural funds but repurpose them to support environmental land management and sustainable methods of food production Invest in more county farms to replace those lost Work with agricultural organisations to increase access into farming for new entrants Food Introduce A Right to Food End ‘food bank Britain’ Ensure everyone has access to healthy, nutritious, sustainably produced food Halve food bank usage within a year and remove the need for them altogether in three years Establish a National Food Commission and review the Allotments Act Make food security a reason to intervene in the economy Work with local councils to minimise food waste Put farmers, fishers, food producers and workers at the heart of our plans for delivering healthy food locally Support local food networks, expand access to farm holdings and ensure rights of union representation for all food and agricultural workers Re-establish an Agricultural Wages Board in England so every part of the UK is covered Set maximum sustainable yields for all shared fish stocks Redistribute fish quotas along social and environmental criteria If people vote to leave the EU, require the majority of fish caught under a UK quota to be landed in UK ports Aim to achieve net-zero-carbon food production in Britain by 2040 Waste and Recycling Make producers responsible for the waste they create and for the full cost of recycling or disposal Invest in three new recyclable steel plants in areas with a proud history of steel manufacturing Learn from the work Labour has done in Wales placing them in the top five globally for recycling rates Animal Welfare Labour has published an ambitious animal welfare manifesto which reiterates our commitments to prohibit foxhunting and end the cull of badgers Introduce an animal welfare commissioner Prohibit the sale of snares and glue traps End the badger cull Ban the keeping of primates as pets Work internationally to end commercial whaling Ban the importation of hunting trophies of threatened species Boost police resources to tackle rural and wildlife crime

Rebuild our Public Services

Funding Universal public services, collectively provided through general taxation and free at the point of use for all Create a fairer taxation system, making sure that everyone pays what they owe Reverse some of the Tories’ cuts to corporation tax while keeping rates lower than in 2010 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 Guarantee no increases in VAT Launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs End the current presumption in favour of outsourcing public services and introduce a presumption in favour of insourcing Stop the public getting ripped off by taking back all PFI contracts over time Procured Services 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 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 Restore public sector pay to at least pre-financial crisis level A 5% public sector pay increase, to reward and retain the people who do so much for us all Quality Care for All Invest in the NHS to give patients the modern, well - resourced services they need Increase expenditure across the health sector by an average 4.3% a year End patient charges Invest in education for the health workforce Restore public health grants Stabilise our overstretched A&E departments Improve stroke, heart disease and cancer survival rates by providing earlier diagnosis and improved screening rates We will call a moratorium on bed cuts End and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament Repeal the Health and Social Care Act and reinstate the responsibilities of the Secretary of State to provide a comprehensive and universal healthcare system End the requirement on health authorities to put services out to competitive tender Ensure services are delivered in-house and also bring subsidiary companies back in-house Halt the fire sale of NHS land and assets Publish an infrastructure plan to return NHS England to the international average level of capital investment Ensure future decisions are transparent and balanced fairly between every region Complete the confirmed hospital rebuilds Invest more in primary care settings, modern AI, cyber technology and state-of-the-art medical equipment, including more MRI and CT scanners Ensure data protection for NHS and patient information Ensure NHS data is not exploited by international technology and pharmaceutical corporations Uphold the principle of comprehensive healthcare by providing free annual NHS dental check-ups Universal healthcare: Ensure women’s and children’s health services are comprehensive Universal healthcare: Protect the rights of EU workers Universal healthcare: Protect the rights of migrants and refugees Universal healthcare: All services are made accessible to BAME, LGBT+ and disabled patients End mixed-sex wards Ensure our NHS becomes a net- zero-carbon service with an NHS Forest of one million trees Net-zero-carbon: More efficient heating and insulation systems, greater reliance on renewable energy, including more solar panelling Net-zero-carbon: Transition to electric paramedic vehicles, NHS fleet cars and hybrid ambulances Introduce mandatory standards for NHS in-patient food Provide free hospital parking for patients, staff and visitors Joined-up Care Stop Tory plans to further entrench the private sector delivery of health care under the cover of integration plans Join up, integrate and co-ordinate care through public bodies Develop a planned model of joined-up community care, enabling people to live longer lives in better health in their own homes Ensure the voices of local people and NHS staff are heard in future developments of the health system Allocate a greater proportion of overall funding to close-to-home health services Build interdisciplinary, patient-focused services across primary care, mental health and social care Ensure patients in deprived and remote communities will have better access to primary care services Ensure those living with long-term conditions can access the care they need Expand GP training places to provide resources for 27 million more appointments each year and ensure community pharmacy is supported Mental Health Provide an additional £1.6 billion a year to ensure new standards for mental health are enshrined in the NHS constitution Ensure access to treatments is on a par with that for physical health conditions Invest £2 billion to modernise hospital facilities and end the use of inappropriate, out-of-area placements Implement in full the recommendations set out in the independent review of the Mental Health Act Invest more in eating disorders services and ensure NICE guidelines on eating disorders are implemented £845 million plan for Healthy Young Minds will more than double the annual spending on children and adolescent mental health services Establish a network of open- access mental health hubs to enable more children to access mental health Recruit almost 3,500 qualified counsellors to guarantee every child access to school counsellors Inequalities Target a reduction in health inequalities with a comprehensive children’s health strategy Introduce a Future Generations Well-being Act, enshrining health aims in all policies Introduce a new duty for NHS agencies to collaborate with directors of public health Invest more than £1 billion in public health and recruit 4,500 more health visitors and school nurses Increase mandated health visits, ensure new mothers can have access to breastfeeding support Introduce mental health assessments in a maternal health check six weeks after birth Invest in children’s oral health, tackle childhood obesity and extend the sugar tax to milk drinks Ban fast-food restaurants near schools and enforce stricter rules around the advertising of junk food and levels of salt in food Take action to significantly reduce infant deaths Ensure families who lose a baby receive appropriate bereavement support as well as protections at work Urgently put in place a vaccination action plan to regain our measles-free status in WHO listings Fully fund sexual health services and roll out PrEP medication Address drug-related deaths, alcohol-related health problems and the adverse impacts of gambling as matters of public health in expanded addiction- support services Alcoholic drinks will be labelled with clear health warnings and we will review the evidence on minimum pricing Implement a Tobacco Control Plan and fund smoking cessation services Workforce End the crisis in our health and care services Plan for the future Guarantee real-terms pay rises every year Terms and conditions will be put into law alongside safe staffing limits for all staff Invest, train and develop NHS staff throughout their careers Introduce a training bursary for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals Remove the obstacles to ethical international recruitment Review the tax and pension changes implemented by the Tory government to ensure that the workforce is fairly rewarded and that services are not adversely affected Provide mental health support for staff Create a working environment within the NHS that is safe, flexible and free from harassment, bullying or violence Medicine The NHS will be at the forefront of the development of genomics and cell therapies so that patients can benefit from new treatments for cancer and dementia Ensure the UK continues to lead in medical developments Establish a generic drug company Use the Patents Act provisions, compulsory licences and research exemptions to secure access to generic versions of drugs Aim to increase the number of pharmaceutical jobs in the UK Play an active role in the medical innovation model, ensuring rewards and incentives match the areas of greatest health need Ensure that all parts of the NHS are all fully excluded and protected from any international trade deals Progress clinically appropriate prescription of medical cannabis Abolish prescription charges in England Social Care Build a comprehensive National Care Service for England Provide community-based, person-centred support, underpinned by the principles of ethical care and independent living Provide free personal care, to ensure that older people have their personal care needs met, with the ambition to extend this provision to all working-age adults Develop eligibility criteria that ensures our service works for everyone, including people with complex conditions like dementia Ensure no one ever again needs to face catastrophic care costs of more than £100,000 for the care they need in old age A lifetime cap on personal contributions to care costs Invest in other social care packages to reverse the damage done by Conservative cuts Provide additional care packages to support both older people and working-age adults living independently in their own homes More than double the number of people receiving publicly funded care packages improve the standard of care provided and remove the distinction between health and care needs Support autistic people and people with learning disabilities to move out from inappropriate inpatient hospital settings Our National Care Service will work in partnership with the NHS, ensuring care is delivered for people, not for profit Contracts for providing care will not be awarded to organisations that do not pay their fair share of taxes Contracts for providing care will not be awarded to organisations that do not meet our high standards of quality care Focus will be on the ethical delivery of care that ensures growing public sector provision and providers who meet standards of transparency, compliance and profit capping Invest to end the social care crisis, end 15-minute care visits and provide care workers with paid travel time, access to training and an option to choose regular hours Increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers Early Years Reverse cuts to Sure Start Create a new service, Sure Start Plus enough centres to provide a genuinely universal service, available in all communities, focused on the under-2s Radically reform early years provision, with a two-term vision to make high-quality early years education available for every child Extend paid maternity leave to 12 months Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year- olds will be entitled to 30 hours of free preschool education per week Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year- olds will be entitled to access to additional hours at affordable, subsidised rates staggered with incomes Work to extend childcare provision for 1-year-olds and to ensure that childcare provision accommodates the working patterns of all parents Improve child development by transitioning to a qualified, graduate- led workforce We value the experience of current early years workers, and will offer free training to the workforce to attain these qualifications on the job Increase funding and end the fragmentation of the current system by funding providers directly, making things simpler and more sustainable for parents and providers Recruit nearly 150,000 additional early years staff, including Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators Introduce a national pay scale, driving up pay for the overwhelmingly female workforce Provide sustainable, long-term funding to securemMaintained nursery schools future Schools Make sure schools are properly resourced with increased long-term funding Introduce a fairer funding formula that leaves no child worse off Invest to upgrade schools that have fallen into disrepair Ensure pupils are taught by a qualified teacher Ensure every school is open for a full five days a week Ensure maximum class sizes of 30 for all primary school children Fund more non-contact time for teachers to prepare and plan Provide the necessary funding for children with special educational needs and disabilities End the ‘high stakes’ testing culture of schools by scrapping Key Stage 1 and 2 SATs and baseline assessments Refocus assessment on supporting pupil progress Introduce an Arts Pupil Premium to fund arts education for every primary school child Review the curriculum to ensure that it enriches students and covers subjects such as black history and continues to teach issues like the Holocaust Pupils will learn both the science of climate and environmental emergency, and the skills necessary to deal with them End the fragmentation and marketisrning Budget and day-to-day decisions will be transferred back to schools, overseen by an accountable governing body with elected representatives Responsibility for delivery of education and support for young people will sit with local authorities Local authorities will manage and have responsibility for school places, including the power to open schools Oversight and coordination, including of continuous, peer-to-peer school improvement modelled on the London Challenge, will be carried out by regional offices All schools will be subject to a common rulebook, set out in legislation Replace Ofsted and transfer responsibility for inspections to a new body, designed to drive school improvement A new teacher supply service will tackle the waste of funds going to private supply teacher agencies Take action to end ‘off-rolling’, removing the perverse incentives for schools to let pupils fall out of the system Properly regulate all education providers and reform alternative provision (AP) to ensure an excellent education is the right of every child ‘Poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms Bring back the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and national pay settlements for teachers Close the tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools and use that money to improve the lives of all children Ask the Social Justice Commission to advise on integrating private schools and creating a comprehensive education system Further Education and Lifelong Learning Ensure fairness and sustainability in further education Base rate of per-pupil funding in post-16 education with Key Stage 4, providing dedicated capital funding to expand provision Bring back the Education Maintenance Allowance as the Welsh Labour Government has done Give everyone a free lifelong entitlement to training up to Level 3 Six years training at Levels 4-6, with maintenance grants for disadvantaged Introduce additional entitlements for workers in industries that are significantly affected by industrial transition Make sure training delivers the right skills by giving employers a role in co-design and co-production of qualifications Restore funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses Restore and expand the Union Learning Fund, giving workers the right to accrue paid time off for education and training Reform existing careers advice, working towards an integrated information, advice and guidance system that covers the entire NES Reverse the fragmentation and privatisation of further and adult education Incorporate it into a single national system of regulation that functions for education as our NHS does for healthcare provision Higher Education End the failed free-market experiment in higher education Abolish tuition fees Bring back maintenance grants Ensure all public HE institutions have adequate funding for teaching and research Widen access to higher education and reverses the decline of part-time learning End the casualisation of staff Transform the Office for Students from a market regulator to a body of the National Education Service Introduce post-qualification admissions in higher education Work with universities to ensure contextual admissions are used across the system Police and Security Invest in our communities and public services to build the stronger, fairer society that keeps us all safer Rebuild our criminal justice services, focusing on crime prevention and early interventions, giving people the best chance of rehabilitation Rebuild our youth services and guarantee young people’s access to youth workers Invest in a youth justice system Police Invest in policing to prevent crime and make our communities safer enforce the laws protecting police and other emergency workers from violent assault rebuild the whole police workforce, recruiting more police officers, police community support officers and police staff Re-establish neighbourhood policing and recruit 2,000 more frontline officers than planned by the Tories Work with police forces to invest in a modern workforce to tackle the rise in violent crime and cybercrime Work with police and crime commissioners to reform police funding and share new resources fairly, and to ensure that local needs are met Reform the police funding formula to ensure sufficient, sustainable resources are fairly allocated Agree resources with the police authorities to combat crime and restore community policing by consent Work to eliminate institutional biases against BAME communities Ensure better police training on domestic abuse and offences arising from coercive control Establish a Royal Commission to develop a public health approach to substance misuse, focusing on harm reduction rather than criminalisation Introduce minimum legal standards of service for all victims of crime Security Address the failure of the Conservatives to take effective measures against a growing problem of extreme or violent radicalisation Ensure closer counter terrorism co-ordination between the police and the security services Ensure the powers exercised by the security services are proportionate and used in accordance with human rights Review the circumstances requiring judicial warrant Ensure agencies are accountable and strengthen the powers of the Joint Intelligence and Security Committee Constrain the right of the Prime Minister to suppress publication of committee reports Review the Prevent programme to assess both effectiveness and potential to alienate communities Review the Protect programme to ensure that public authorities take appropriate security measures, without alienating the communities they serve Evaluate the mobile phone trials with the aim of introducing an emergency alert system Use our diplomatic services, our aid budgets and our international standing to promote peaceful solutions to conflicts Tackle the risks arising from poverty, natural catastrophes and population displacements Respect international law and avoid needless military interventions If the British people confirm their decision to leave, we will prioritise agreement of a new UK-EU Security Treaty Cybersecurity Overhaul our cybersecurity by creating a co-ordinating minister and regular reviews of cyber-readiness Review the role and remit of the National Cyber Security Centre to determine whether it should be given powers as an auditing body Review the structures and roles of the National Crime Agency, to strengthen the response to all types of economic crime, including cybercrime and fraud Ensure a modern, technologically advanced police service that has the capacity and skills to combat online crime Border Security Review our border controls to make them more effective Justice Foster close working relationships between criminal justice agencies with education authorities, health services and others Establish violence-reduction units and ensuring vulnerable people get the support they need by boosting public health, mental health and early years services Restore total prison officer numbers to 2010 levels, and phase out dangerous lone working Bring PFI prisons back in-house and there will be no new private prisons Tackle the prison maintenance backlog and develop a long-term estate strategy Set new standards for community sentences and Introduce a presumption against prison sentences of six months or less for non-violent and non-sexual offences Invest in proven alternatives to custody, including women’s centres, expand problem-solving courts and plug the funding gap in the female offender strategy Further consider the evidence for effective alternatives and rehabilitation of prolific offenders Reunify probation and guarantee a publicly run, locally accountable probation service Probation staff and professional standards will once again be properly valued Restore all early legal aid advice, including for housing, social security, family and immigration cases Recruit hundreds of new community lawyers, promote public legal education and build an expanded network of law centres Ensure legal aid for inquests into deaths in state custody and the preparation of judicial review cases Consult on the civil legal aid means-test levels and act on the criminal legal aid review Defend workers’ ability to recover legal representation costs from negligent employers Keep the right for workers to be represented and recover their costs in cases of employer negligence leading to injury at work Review the eligibility criteria for the criminal injuries compensation scheme Halt court closures and cuts to staff, and undertake a review of the courts reform programme Facilitate a more representative judiciary while upholding its independence Review funding for the Crown Prosecution Service Tackle the disproportionate levels of BAME children in custody Review the youth custody estate, strengthen youth courts and build on the Lammy Review Set new standards for tackling domestic and sexual abuse and violence, and appoint a Commissioner for Violence against Women and Girls Establish an independent review into shamefully low rape prosecution rates Establish a National Refuge Fund, Ensure financial stability for rape crisis centres Reintroduce a Domestic Abuse Bill Improve the safety of the family court system for domestic violence victims and prohibit their cross-examination by their abuser Introduce protections for victims of so-called revenge porn Introduce a no-fault divorce procedure Uphold women’s reproductive rights Establish public inquiries into historical injustices including blacklisting and Orgreave Ensure the second phase of the Grenfell Inquiry has the confidence of all those affected Consider a public inquiry in the case of Zane Gbangbola Require judicial warrants for undercover operations and retain the Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing Release all papers on the Shrewsbury 24 trials and 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers Introduce a Public Accountability Bill Ensure fair compensation for the victims of contaminated blood products across the UK Communities and Local Government Reverse the Tory decade of austerity for local government Aim to restore council spending powers to 2010 levels over the lifetime of the Parliament Act to bring services – from bin collections to management of local leisure centres – back in-house within the next Parliament Improve service quality, saving money and ensuring the people who deliver vital local services are treated decently Introduce a ‘rural- proofing’ process so that all our laws, policies and programmes consider their impact on rural communities Make council funding more reactive, and will work with councils to establish such a fund to meet changing circumstances. Revive high streets by stopping bank branch closures, banning ATM charges and giving local government new powers to put empty shops to good use Review the option of a land value tax on commercial landlords as an alternative and develop a retail sector industrial strategy Consumers rights enhanced and protected and that safety standards are maintained and improved Local authority trading standards departments and other consumer protection agencies have the resources to enforce rights and standards Stop Crown Post Office closures Bring Royal Mail back into public ownership, reuniting it with the Post Office Publicly owned Post Bank run through the post office network A Business Development Agency will be based in the Post Bank, providing free support and advice on how to launch, manage and grow a business Labour will list pubs as Assets of Community Value so community groups have the first chance to buy local pubs when they are under threat Ensure libraries are preserved for future generations and updated with Wi-Fi and computers Reintroduce library standards so that government can assess and guide councils in delivering the best possible service Presumption to insource public services Build community wealth by giving communities the powers and resources they need to keep public spending circulating in the local economy Give a new Co-operative Development Agency a mission to double the size of the co-operative sector Rebalance power in the planning system by giving local government greater freedom to set planning fees Require the climate and environmental emergency to be factored into all planning decisions build a properly funded, professionally staffed National Youth Service, and will guarantee every young person has access to local, high-quality youth work Launch a wholesale review of the care system, including kinship care, considering national standards such as a central register of foster parents and regulation of semi-supported housing, to ensure we meet the needs of every child Rebuild early intervention services and replace the Troubled Families programme with a Stronger Families programme Protect and build on Staying Put for over-18s in care and the Adoption Support Fund Fire and Rescue Halt the cuts and further invest in our Fire and Rescue Service Recruit at least 5,000 new firefighters Learn lessons from the public inquiries into Grenfell and earlier disasters Establish a broadly based implementation taskforce, but will not wait for final recommendations to make urgent changes Ensure dedicated fire controls under Fire and Rescue Service governance Provide resources for a public Fire and Rescue College to ensure that necessary training, research and planning is undertaken Conduct a review of the Fire and Rescue Service, evaluating safe staffing levels and consulting on national minimum standards Establish in law a standards body for fire prevention, protection and intervention, with trade union representation at all levels Reinstate separate governance arrangements for Fire and Rescue Service and police services Give fire services the duty to co-ordinate the emergency response to floods locally Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Deliver free full-fibre broadband to all by 2030 Establish British Broadband, with two arms: British Digital Infrastructure (BDI) and the British Broadband Service (BBS) Bring the broadband-relevant parts of BT into public ownership A jobs guarantee for all workers in existing broadband infrastructure and retail broadband work BDI will roll out the remaining 90–92% of the full-fibre network, and acquire necessary access rights to existing assets BBS will coordinate the delivery of free broadband in tranches as the full-fibre network is rolled out, beginning with the communities worst served BBS will coordinate the delivery of free broadband in tranches as the full-fibre network is rolled out, beginning with the communities worst served by existing broadband networks Enforce a legal duty of care to protect our children online, impose fines on companies that fail on online abuse and empower the public with a Charter of Digital Rights Culture Open up career opportunities in creative industries for everyone and consult on ways to address the gender imbalance in the digital creative industries Introduce an Arts Pupil Premium to every primary school in England A £160 million annual boost for schools to ensure creative and arts education is embedded in secondary education Invest in the towns and communities neglected for too long, with a £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund to transform libraries, museums and galleries across the country Make the distribution of National Lottery funding more transparent to help communities get their fair share of project funding Maintain free entry to museums, because everyone should have access to our shared heritage Launch a Town of Culture competition Work with trade unions and employers to make creative jobs accessible for all Review the copyright framework to ensure fair remuneration for artists and content creators Media Ensure a healthy future for all our public service broadcasters, including BBC Alba and S4C Protect free TV licences for over-75s Address misconduct and the unresolved failures of corporate governance raised by the second stage of the abandoned Leveson Inquiry Ensure that Ofcom is better able to safeguard a healthy plurality of media ownership Put in place clearer rules on who is fit and proper to own or run TV and radio stations Address the monopolistic hold the tech giants have on advertising revenues and will support vital local newspapers and media outlets Consult media-sector workers and trade unions to establish an inquiry into the ‘fake news’ undermining trust in media, democracy and public debate Consult media-sector workers and trade unions on a legal right of public interest defence for journalists Sport Examine the state of the football game, its governance and regulation, its ownership rules and the support and funding of the clubs that are vital to local communities Review the ‘fit and proper person test’ for club owners and directors and ensure that supporters’ trusts have a proper role 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 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

Work 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 Cap the total amount that can be paid in overdraft fees or interest on a loan Introduce a Real Living Wage of at least £10 per hour for all workers aged 16 and over Use savings to public finances to help small businesses manage the extra cost of the living wage Give workers a stake in the companies they work for by requiring large companies to set up Inclusive Ownership Funds (IOFs) Up to 10% of a company will be owned collectively by employees Dividend payments distributed equally among all, capped at £500 a year The cap will rise to ensure that no more than 25% of dividends raised by IOFs are redistributed in this way Explore other innovative ways of responding to low pay, including a pilot of Universal Basic Income Self-employed people will benefit from a broad range of policies, from free childcare, full-fibre broadband to face-to-face lending and business support through our Post Bank Seek to develop tailored support and protections for the self- employed, including: collective income protection insurance schemes, annual income assessments for those on Universal Credit, and better access to mortgages and pension schemes tackle late payments that leave small businesses and the self-employed waiting months to be paid, including banning late payers from public procurement Ministry for Employment Rights Transform people’s lives for the better through the biggest extension of workers’ rights in history Give working people a voice at the Cabinet table by establishing a Ministry for Employment Rights Start to roll out sectoral collective bargaining across the economy Bring workers and employers together to agree legal minimum standards on a wide range of issues, such as pay and working hours Sectoral collective bargaining will increase wages and reduce inequality Sectoral collective bargaining will also stop good employers being undercut by bad employers Give everyone full rights from day one on the job Strengthen protections for whistleblowers and rights against unfair dismissal for all workers End bogus self-employment and creating a single status of ‘worker’ for everyone apart from those genuinely self-employed in business on their own account Introduce a legal right to collective consultation on the implementation of new technology in workplaces Ban zero-hour contracts and strengthening the law so that those who work regular hours for more than 12 weeks will have a right to a regular contract Increase wages through sectoral collective bargaining Require breaks during shifts to be paid Require cancelled shifts to be paid and proper notice for changes in hours Give all workers the right to flexible working Extend statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months Double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay Introduce statutory bereavement leave, guarantee workers time off to grieve the loss of close family members or following miscarriage Introduce four new bank holidays celebrating our four patron saints’ days Review family-friendly employment rights, including rights to respond to family emergencies Require employers to devise and implement plans to eradicate the gender pay gap – and pay inequalities underpinned by race and/or disability – or face fines Require employers to maintain workplaces free of harassment, including harassment by third parties Increase protection against redundancy for people wherever they work Give statutory rights to equalities representatives Set up a Royal Commission to bring health (including mental health) and safety legislation up to date Ensure that public-facing workers are protected by toughening the law against abuse and violence Banning unpaid internships Allow trade unions to use secure electronic and workplace ballots Remove unnecessary restrictions on industrial action. Strengthen and enforce trade unions’ right of entry to workplaces to organise, meet and represent their members and to recruit Ban union-busting, strengthen protection of trade union representatives against unfair dismissal and union members from intimidation, harassment, threats and blacklisting Repeal anti-trade union legislation including the Trade Union Act 2016 and create new rights and freedoms for trade unions to help them win a better deal for working people Simplify the law around union recognition Give union reps adequate time off for union duties Develop collective income- protection insurance schemes for the self-employed Introduce a maximum workplace temperature to protect workers and require employers to take counteracting measures Bring UK law into line with the International Labour Organisation standards it has ratified Working Time Tackle excessive working hours Within a decade we will reduce average full-time weekly working hours to 32 across the economy, with no loss of pay, funded by productivity increases End the opt-out provision for the EU Working Time Directive and enforcing working-time regulations Set up an independent Working Time Commission to advise on raising minimum holiday entitlements and reducing maximum weekly working time Invest to increase productivity and making sure workers share the benefits Keep restrictions on Sunday trading in place and review unpaid overtime Enforcement Introduce a new, unified Workers’ Protection Agency (WPA) to enforce workplace rights, including the Real Living Wage WPA will be given extensive powers to inspect workplaces and bring prosecutions and civil proceedings on workers’ behalf Keep employment tribunals free, extend their powers, and introduce new Labour Courts with a stronger role for people with industrial experience on panels Rewriting the Rules Take on short-termism and corporate greed, making sure good businesses are rewarded, not undercut Rewrite the rules of the economy and ensure everyone plays by them Amend the Companies Act, requiring companies to prioritise long-term growth while strengthening protections for stakeholders, including smaller suppliers and pension funds Tackle late payments that leave small businesses waiting months to be paid, including banning late payers from public procurement For small businesses, we will ensure no quarterly reporting for businesses below the VAT threshold Require one-third of boards to be reserved for elected worker-directors and give them more control over executive pay Introduce a broader ‘public interest test’ to prevent hostile takeovers and asset-stripping weakening our industrial base and destroying treasured home-grown companies Give workers a voice on public bodies such as the Competition and Markets Authority ff9=Let struggling companies go into protective administration, so they can be sold as a going concern rather than collapsing into insolvency Separate audit and accounting activities in major firms and impose more robust rules on auditors Tackle regulatory capture and streamline regulation by creating a new Business Commission, responsive to parliamentary select committees Social Justice Commission Usher in a new era of social justice in Britain Replace the Social Mobility Commission with a Social Justice Commission, based in the Treasury, with wide-ranging powers to hold us, and future governments, to account Women and Equalities Create a new Department for Women and Equalities, with a full-time Secretary of State Ensure all our policies and laws are equality-impact assessed in order to deliver a fairer society for women and all under-represented groups Establish a modernised National Women’s Commission as an independent advisory body to contribute to a Labour government Ratify both the Istanbul Convention on preventing domestic abuse and the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment at work Create a new ground for discrimination on the basis of socio-economic disadvantage Women Take action to close the gender pay gap by 2030 Deliver gender pay equality by making the state responsible for enforcing equal pay legislation for the first time The new Workers’ Protection Agency working with HMRC will ensure that employers take equal pay seriously and take positive action to close the gender pay gap. Women will no longer be left to take enforcement action by themselves through the courts Require all employers with over 250 employees to obtain government certification on gender equality or face further auditing and fines. By the end of 2020, we will lower the threshold to workplaces with 50 employees, whilst providing the necessary additional support for small businesses Revolutionise parents’ rights by increasing paid maternity leave from nine to 12 months, doubling paternity leave to four weeks and extending pregnancy protection. We will ban the dismissal of pregnant women without prior approval of the inspectorate Transform the workplace and require all large employers to have flexible working, including a menopause policy, and consider changes to sickness and absence practices Enable positive action for recruitment to roles where employers can justify the need for more diversity and introduce a right for all workers to request flexibility over their hours from the first day of employment Ensure that the single-sex-based exemptions contained in the Equality Act 2010 are understood and fully enforced in service provision Create a safer society for women and prioritise domestic abuse as a health issue, introduce 10 days of paid leave for survivors of domestic abuse, and ensure women’s refuges receive the long-term sustainable funding they need. Misogyny and violence against women and girls will become hate crimes Increase women’s representation across parliament by building on the Equality Act and enact Section 106 so that all political parties publish diversity data about electoral candidates Race Equality Ensure a pathway to economic inclusion for all, putting an end to all forms of racism and discrimination in our economy and society Seek to end the politics of hate and commission an independent review into the threat of far-right extremism and how to tackle it Put wealth and power in the hands of the many, extend pay-gap reporting to BAME groups and tackle pay discrimination on the basis of race Commit our National Investment Bank to addressing discrimination in access to finance, which many BAME business owners face; and take action to ensure that BAME and women business owners have access to government contracts and spending Implement recommendations of the Lammy Review to address the disparity of treatment and outcomes for BAME people within the criminal justice system. Create an Emancipation Educational Trust to educate around migration and colonialism, and to address the legacy of slavery and teach how it interrupted a rich and powerful black history which is also British history Strengthen protection for religious communities Amend the law to include attacks on places of worship (including synagogues, temples, mosques and churches) as a specific aggravated offence Review current levels of funding for and access to the Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme Maintain funding in real terms for the Community Security Trust, and consult on giving it statutory protection to ensure that religious communities have the support they need Disability with Dignity Champion the social model of disability throughout government. Through our new Department for Women and Equalities, we will ensure that disabled people can be independent and equal in society, with choice and control over their own lives Transform the workplace for disabled people by requiring that all employers be trained to better support them, while introducing mandatory disability pay-gap reporting for companies with over 250 employees End disability discrimination and update the Equality Act to introduce new specific duties including disability leave, paid and recorded separately from sick leave Recommend that the Equality and Human Rights Commission prepare a specific code of practice on reasonable adjustments to supplement existing codes. The code will also set timescales for implementation of reasonable adjustments to end the long and distressing delays experienced by disabled workers Reinstate the Access to Elected Office Fund to enable disabled people to run for elected office Adopt a British Sign Language Act, giving BSL full legal recognition in law Work with employers, trade unions and public services to improve awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace and in society LGBT+ Equality Eliminate remaining areas of discrimination in law, ensuring that LGBT+ people can live in safety and dignity 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. Respond fast and firmly wherever LGBT+ people face violence or persecution internationally and appoint a dedicated global ambassador to the Foreign Office on LGBT+ issues Work with organisations and charities already making the UK a more equal and fairer society Migration Establish a humane immigration system and end the ‘hostile environment’ that caused the Windrush scandal Scrap the 2014 Immigration Act introduced by the Tories with their Liberal Democrat coalition partners We will not tolerate a two-tier system for those entitled to be here End the Windrush injustices and provide fair compensation to those who have unfairly suffered End indefinite detention, review the alternatives to the inhumane conditions of detention centres, and close Yarl’s Wood and Brook House Ensure justice for migrant domestic workers and restore the overseas domestic workers’ visa If we remain in the EU, freedom of movement would continue If we leave the EU, it will be subject to negotiations, but we recognise the social and economic benefits that free movement has brought both in terms of EU citizens here and UK citizens abroad End the deportation of family members of people entitled to be here and end the minimum income requirements which separate families Refugees uphold rights to seek asylum and meet those obligations Resume rescue missions in the Mediterranean Co-operate with the French authorities to put an end to the horrific camps, and establish safe and legal routes for asylum seekers Once here, refugees will have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels Social Security Develop a cross- governmental National Strategy for Childhood focusing on health, security, well-being and poverty Give effect to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Universal Credit Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC) Immediately stop moving people onto UC and design an alternative system that treats people with dignity and respect Our ambition in designing this system will be to end poverty by guaranteeing a minimum standard of living Develop a new system immediately Implement an emergency package of reforms to mitigate some of the worst features of UC while we develop our replacement system End the five-week wait by introducing an interim payment based on half an estimated monthly entitlement Immediately suspend the Tories’ vicious sanction regime and ensure that employment support is positive not punitive Stop 300,000 children from being in poverty by scrapping the benefit cap and the two child limit End the immoral and outrageous ‘rape clause’ Pay childcare costs up front so that parents aren’t forced to turn down work or get into debt to pay for childcare Protect women in abusive relationships by splitting payments and paying the child element to the primary carer Make it easier for people to manage their living costs by introducing fortnightly payments and paying the housing element directly to landlords End the digital barrier and offer telephone, face-to- face and outreach support and recruit 5,000 additional advisors to deliver this Scrap the bedroom tax Increase the Local Housing Allowance Disabled People 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 Stop the dehumanising Work Capability and PIP Assessments, which repeatedly and falsely find ill or disabled people fit to work Make sure all assessments are done in-house Make sure people who are ill and disabled receive the support they need to lead full, independent lives Increase Employment and Support Allowance by £30 per week for those in the work-related activity group Raise the basic rate of support for children with disabilities to the level of Child Tax Credits Ensure that severely disabled people without a formal carer receive extra support to enable them to meet the extra costs they inevitably face Support those who look after others, increasing the Carer’s Allowance to the level of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Help disabled people who want to work by bringing back specialist employment advisors Introduce a government-backed Reasonable Adjustments Passport scheme to help people move between jobs more easily Review support for disabled people at work, including the Access to Work scheme Pensions Labour recognises the Waspi injustice, and will work with these women to design a system of recompense for the losses and insecurity they have suffered Ensure that such an injustice can never happen again by legislating to prevent accrued rights to the state pension from being changed Abandon the Tories’ plans to raise the State Pension Age, leaving it at 66 Review retirement ages for physically arduous and stressful occupations, including shift workers, in the public and private sectors Maintain the ‘triple lock’ Guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment, free TV licences and free bus passes as universal benefits Stop people being auto-enrolled into rip-off pension schemes and seek to widen and expand access for more low-income and self-employed workers Establish an independent Pensions’ Commission, modelled on the Low Pay Commission, to recommend target levels for workplace pensions Create a single, comprehensive and publicly run pensions dashboard that is fully transparent, including information about costs and charges Legislate to allow the CWU- Royal Mail agreement for a collective pension scheme to proceed and allow similar schemes End the injustice of the state taking 50% of the surplus in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and introduce new sharing arrangements so that 10% goes to government and 90% stays with scheme members Ensure that the pensions of UK citizens living overseas rise in line with pensions in Britain Housing Bring system-wide change, so that a tragedy like Grenfell never happens again Introduce a £1 billion Fire Safety Fund to fit sprinklers and other fire safety measures in all high- rise council and housing association tower blocks Enforce the replacement of dangerous Grenfell- style cladding on all high-rise homes and buildings Introduce mandatory building standards and guidance, inspected and enforced by fully trained Fire and Rescue Service fire safety officers Create a new Department for Housing Make Homes England a more accountable national housing agency Put councils in the driving seat of local housing Set out a strategy for a flourishing construction sector with a skilled workforce and full rights at work Set up a new English Sovereign Land Trust, with powers to buy land more cheaply for low-cost housing Use public land to build this housing, not sell it off to the highest bidder Developers will face new ‘use it or lose it’ taxes on stalled housing developments Keep the Land Registry in public hands, and make ownership of land more transparent Make brownfield sites the priority for development and protect the green belt Tackle the climate crisis and cut energy bills by introducing a tough, new zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes Upgrade millions of existing homes to make them more energy efficient Review the planning guidance for developments in flood risk areas Council and Social Homes Deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart By the end of the Parliament we will be building at an annual rate of at least 150,000 council and social homes 100,000 houses built by councils for social rent in the biggest council housebuilding programme in more than a generation Establish a new duty on councils to plan and build these homes in their area Fund councils to build these home with backing from national government Scrap the Conservatives’ bogus definition of ‘affordable’, set as high as 80% of market rents, and replace it with a definition linked to local incomes These council and housing association homes will be more affordable than market housing and built to higher standards End the conversion of office blocks to homes that sidestep planning permission through ‘permitted development’ Stop the haemorrhage of low- cost homes by ending the right to buy Stop the forced conversion of social rented homes to so-called ‘affordable rent’ Review the case for reducing the amount of housing debt councils currently hold Give councils the powers and funding to buy back homes from private landlords Give tenants a stronger say in the management of their homes Stop social cleansing by making sure regeneration only goes ahead when it has the consent of residents, and that all residents are offered a new property on the same site and terms Fund a new Decent Homes programme to bring all council and housing association homes up to a good standard Home Ownership Build more low-cost homes reserved for first-time buyers in every area Include Labour’s new discount homes with prices linked to local incomes Reform Help to Buy to focus it on first-time buyers on ordinary incomes Introduce a levy on overseas companies buying housing, while giving local people ‘first dibs’ on new homes built in their area Bring empty homes back into use by giving councils new powers to tax properties empty for over a year End the scandal of leasehold for the millions who have bought their home but don’t feel like they own it End the sale of new leasehold properties, abolish unfair fees and conditions, and give leaseholders the right to buy their freehold at a price they can afford Introduce equivalent rights for freeholders on privately owned estates Private Renters Take urgent action to protect private renters through rent controls, open-ended tenancies, and new, binding minimum standards Stop runaway rents by capping them with inflation, and give cities powers to cap rents further Give renters the security they need to make their rented housing a home, with new open-ended tenancies to stop unfair, ‘no fault’ evictions Ensure every property is up to scratch with new minimum standards, enforced through nationwide licensing Tougher sanctions for landlords who flout the rules Fund new renters’ unions in every part of the country – to allow renters to organise and defend their rights Get rid of the discriminatory rules that require landlords to check people’s immigration status Get rid of the discriminatory rules that allow them to exclude people on housing benefit Give councils new powers to regulate short-term lets through companies such as Airbnb Homelessness Tackle the root causes of rising homelessness with more affordable homes and stronger rights for renters End rough sleeping within five years, with a national plan driven by a prime minister-led taskforce Expand and upgrade hostels, turning them into places where people can turn their lives around Make available 8,000 additional homes for people with a history of rough sleeping Tackle the wider causes of homelessness, raising the Local Housing Allowance in line with the 30th percentile of local rents Tackle the wider causes of homelessness, earmarking an additional £1 billion a year for councils’ homelessness services Bring in a new national levy on second homes used as holiday homes to help deal with the homelessness crisis Save lives this winter by ensuring extra shelters and support are in place in all areas Repeal the Vagrancy Act and amend antisocial behaviour legislation to stop the law being used against people because they are homeless Constitutional Issues Act immediately to end the hereditary principle in the House of Lords Work to abolish the House of Lords in favour of Labour’s preferred option of an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions The renewal of our Parliament will be subject to recommendations made by a UK-wide Constitutional Convention, led by a citizens’ assembly Safeguard the future of a devolved UK, reforming the way in which it works to make it fit for the future Decentralise decision-making and strengthen local democracy Re-establish regional Government Offices to make central government more attuned to our English regions, to support our regional investments, and to enable the shift of political power away from Westminster Repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, which has stifled democracy and propped up weak governments Maintain 650 constituencies and respond objectively to future, independent boundary reviews Oversee the largest extension of the franchise in generations, reducing the voting age to 16 Give full voting rights to all UK residents Make sure everyone who is entitled to vote can do so by introducing a system of automatic voter registration Abandon plans to introduce voter ID which has been shown to harm democratic rights Tackling Vested Interests Change how politics is funded, banning donations from tax avoiders and tax evaders Close loopholes that allow the use of shell companies to funnel dark money into politics Repeal the Lobbying Act 2014 and overhauling the rules that govern corporate lobbying Introduce a lobbying register covering both in-house lobbyists and think tanks Lobbying register extended to contacts made with all senior government employees, not just ministers Increase the financial penalties available to the Electoral Commission and require imprints for digital political adverts Stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing Replace ACOBA, the business appointments committee, with a sufficiently resourced and empowered new body, governed by a diverse and representative board and established in law Overhaul the system of ministerial appointments to public office Bring greater transparency by extending Freedom of Information rules to cover private providers of public services Set new standards of consistent disclosure practice End the six-month time limit in which the Information Commissioner can prosecute the deliberate destruction of public records Northern Ireland Work quickly and tirelessly to secure the return of a genuine power- sharing government in Northern Ireland Invest an extra £1.9 billion to end austerity and rebuild public services in Northern Ireland Fully implement new laws on equal marriage in Northern Ireland so that same-sex couples are no longer treated as second-class citizens Bring forward and implementing a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland as outlined in the Good Friday Agreement Women in Northern Ireland should have access to abortions in Northern Ireland Protect Northern Ireland and its people in any future Brexit outcome by ensuring that there is no return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland or the creation of a regulatory border down the Irish Sea Wales Include the Welsh Government’s 20-point plan for the future of the UK to better recognise the realities of a devolved UK Long-term reform of how the UK allocates public expenditure to ensure that it reflects the needs of different parts of our country Labour in Wales has pioneered the social partnership approach, investing an extra £3.4 billion in Wales, and a UK Ministry for Employment Rights we will be able to do much more Create jobs in Wales through environmental energy schemes such as the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project Work with people of Ynys Môn (Anglesey)to maximise its potential for new nuclear energy, alongside investment in renewables Wales and Westminster will work together, using the Thomas Commission on Justice report to improve the justice system Scotland Give around 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise when we introduce a Real Living Wage of £10 an hour Provide Scotland with at least around £100 billion of additional resources over two terms £10 billion from our new National Transformation Fund invested in the building of 120,000 council and social homes in Scotland over the next ten years, ending the housing crisis and creating up to 50,000 jobs As part of our Green Industrial Revolution we will invest £6 billion in retrofitting houses across Scotland, which will help tackle the climate emergency at the same time as lowering bills, ending fuel poverty and creating 35,000 jobs Provide the Scottish National Investment Bank, under Scottish control, with £20 billion of lending power to deliver funds to local projects and Scotland’s small businesses 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