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|ff14=Scrap the bedroom tax
|ff15=Increase the Local Housing Allowance
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|pagename=Disabled People
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Social Security - Disabled People
|1=Disabled People
|ff1=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
|ff2=Stop the dehumanising Work Capability and PIP Assessments, which repeatedly and falsely find ill or disabled people fit to work
|ff3=Make sure all assessments are done in-house
|ff4=Make sure people who are ill and disabled receive the support they need to lead full, independent lives
|ff5=Increase Employment and Support Allowance by £30 per week for those in the work-related activity group
|ff6=Raise the basic rate of support for children with disabilities to the level of Child Tax Credits
|ff7=Ensure that severely disabled people without a formal carer receive extra support to enable them to meet the extra costs they inevitably face
|ff8=Support those who look after others, increasing the Carer’s Allowance to the level of the Jobseeker’s Allowance
|ff9=Help disabled people who want to work by bringing back specialist employment advisors
|ff10=Introduce a government-backed Reasonable Adjustments Passport scheme to help people move between jobs more easily
|ff11=Review support for disabled people at work, including the Access to Work scheme
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|pagename=Pensions
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Social Security - Pensions
|1=Pensions
|ff1=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
|ff2=Ensure that such an injustice can never happen again by legislating to prevent accrued rights to the state pension from being changed
|ff3=Abandon the Tories’ plans to raise the State Pension Age, leaving it at 66
|ff4=Review retirement ages for physically arduous and stressful occupations, including shift workers, in the public and private sectors
|ff5=Maintain the ‘triple lock’
|ff6=Guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment, free TV licences and free bus passes as universal benefits
|ff7=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
|ff8=Establish an independent Pensions’ Commission, modelled on the Low Pay Commission, to recommend target levels for workplace pensions
|ff9=Create a single, comprehensive and publicly run pensions dashboard that is fully transparent, including information about costs and charges
|ff10=Legislate to allow the CWU- Royal Mail agreement for a collective pension scheme to proceed and allow similar schemes
|ff11=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
|ff12=Ensure that the pensions of UK citizens living overseas rise in line with pensions in Britain
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=Housing=
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|pagename=Housing
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing
|1=Housing
|ff1=Bring system-wide change, so that a tragedy like Grenfell never happens again
|ff2=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
|ff3=Enforce the replacement of dangerous Grenfell- style cladding on all high-rise homes and buildings
|ff4=Introduce mandatory building standards and guidance, inspected and enforced by fully trained Fire and Rescue Service fire safety officers
|ff5=Create a new Department for Housing
|ff6=Make Homes England a more accountable national housing agency
|ff7=Put councils in the driving seat of local housing
|ff8=Set out a strategy for a flourishing construction sector with a skilled workforce and full rights at work
|ff9=Set up a new English Sovereign Land Trust, with powers to buy land more cheaply for low-cost housing
|ff10=Use public land to build this housing, not sell it off to the highest bidder
|ff11=Developers will face new ‘use it or lose it’ taxes on stalled housing developments
|ff12=Keep the Land Registry in public hands, and make ownership of land more transparent
|ff13=Make brownfield sites the priority for development and protect the green belt
|ff14=Tackle the climate crisis and cut energy bills by introducing a tough, new zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes
|ff15=Upgrade millions of existing homes to make them more energy efficient
|ff16=Review the planning guidance for developments in flood risk areas
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|pagename=Council and Social Homes
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing - Council and Social Homes
|1=Council and Social Homes
|ff1=Deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart
|ff2=By the end of the Parliament we will be building at an annual rate of at least 150,000 council and social homes
|ff3=100,000 houses built by councils for social rent in the biggest council housebuilding programme in more than a generation
|ff4=Establish a new duty on councils to plan and build these homes in their area
|ff5=Fund councils to build these home with backing from national government
|ff6=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
|ff7=These council and housing association homes will be more affordable than market housing and built to higher standards
|ff8=End the conversion of office blocks to homes that sidestep planning permission through ‘permitted development’
|ff9=Stop the haemorrhage of low- cost homes by ending the right to buy
|ff10=Stop the forced conversion of social rented homes to so-called ‘affordable rent’
|ff11=Review the case for reducing the amount of housing debt councils currently hold
|ff12=Give councils the powers and funding to buy back homes from private landlords
|ff13=Give tenants a stronger say in the management of their homes
|ff14=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
|ff15=Fund a new Decent Homes programme to bring all council and housing association homes up to a good standard
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|pagename=Home Ownership
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing - Home Ownership
|1=Home Ownership
|ff1=Build more low-cost homes reserved for first-time buyers in every area
|ff2=Include Labour’s new discount homes with prices linked to local incomes
|ff3=Reform Help to Buy to focus it on first-time buyers on ordinary incomes
|ff4=Introduce a levy on overseas companies buying housing, while giving local people ‘first dibs’ on new homes built in their area
|ff5=Bring empty homes back into use by giving councils new powers to tax properties empty for over a year
|ff6=End the scandal of leasehold for the millions who have bought their home but don’t feel like they own it
|ff7=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
|ff8=Introduce equivalent rights for freeholders on privately owned estates
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|pagename=Private Renters
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing - Private Renters
|1=Private Renters
|ff1=Take urgent action to protect private renters through rent controls, open-ended tenancies, and new, binding minimum standards
|ff2=Stop runaway rents by capping them with inflation, and give cities powers to cap rents further
|ff3=Give renters the security they need to make their rented housing a home, with new open-ended tenancies to stop unfair, ‘no fault’ evictions
|ff4=Ensure every property is up to scratch with new minimum standards, enforced through nationwide licensing
|ff5=Tougher sanctions for landlords who flout the rules
|ff6=Fund new renters’ unions in every part of the country – to allow renters to organise and defend their rights
|ff7=Get rid of the discriminatory rules that require landlords to check people’s immigration status
|ff8=Get rid of the discriminatory rules that allow them to exclude people on housing benefit
|ff9=Give councils new powers to regulate short-term lets through companies such as Airbnb
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|pagename=Homelessness
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing - Homelessness
|1=Homelessness
|ff1=Tackle the root causes of rising homelessness with more affordable homes and stronger rights for renters
|ff2=End rough sleeping within five years, with a national plan driven by a prime minister-led taskforce
|ff3=Expand and upgrade hostels, turning them into places where people can turn their lives around
|ff4=Make available 8,000 additional homes for people with a history of rough sleeping
|ff5=Tackle the wider causes of homelessness, raising the Local Housing Allowance in line with the 30th percentile of local rents
|ff6=Tackle the wider causes of homelessness, earmarking an additional £1 billion a year for councils’ homelessness services
|ff7=Bring in a new national levy on second homes used as holiday homes to help deal with the homelessness crisis
|ff8=Save lives this winter by ensuring extra shelters and support are in place in all areas
|ff9=Repeal the Vagrancy Act and amend antisocial behaviour legislation to stop the law being used against people because they are homeless
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=Constitutional Issues=
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|pagename=Constitutional Issues
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Constitutional Issues
|1=Constitutional Issues
|ff1=Act immediately to end the hereditary principle in the House of Lords
|ff2=Work to abolish the House of Lords in favour of Labour’s preferred option of an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions
|ff3=The renewal of our Parliament will be subject to recommendations made by a UK-wide Constitutional Convention, led by a citizens’ assembly
|ff4=Safeguard the future of a devolved UK, reforming the way in which it works to make it fit for the future
|ff5=Decentralise decision-making and strengthen local democracy
|ff6=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
|ff7=Repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, which has stifled democracy and propped up weak governments
|ff8=Maintain 650 constituencies and respond objectively to future, independent boundary reviews
|ff9=Oversee the largest extension of the franchise in generations, reducing the voting age to 16
|ff10=Give full voting rights to all UK residents
|ff11=Make sure everyone who is entitled to vote can do so by introducing a system of automatic voter registration
|ff12=Abandon plans to introduce voter ID which has been shown to harm democratic rights
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|pagename=Tackling Vested Interests
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Constitutional Issues - Tackling Vested Interests
|1=Tackling Vested Interests
|ff1=Change how politics is funded, banning donations from tax avoiders and tax evaders
|ff2=Close loopholes that allow the use of shell companies to funnel dark money into politics
|ff3=Repeal the Lobbying Act 2014 and overhauling the rules that govern corporate lobbying
|ff4=Introduce a lobbying register covering both in-house lobbyists and think tanks
|ff5=Lobbying register extended to contacts made with all senior government employees, not just ministers
|ff6=Increase the financial penalties available to the Electoral Commission and require imprints for digital political adverts
|ff7=Stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing
|ff8=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
|ff9=Overhaul the system of ministerial appointments to public office
|ff10=Bring greater transparency by extending Freedom of Information rules to cover private providers of public services
|ff11=Set new standards of consistent disclosure practice
|ff12=End the six-month time limit in which the Information Commissioner can prosecute the deliberate destruction of public records
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|pagename=Northern Ireland
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Constitutional Issues - Northern Ireland
|1=Northern Ireland
|ff1=Work quickly and tirelessly to secure the return of a genuine power- sharing government in Northern Ireland
|ff2=Invest an extra £1.9 billion to end austerity and rebuild public services in Northern Ireland
|ff3=Fully implement new laws on equal marriage in Northern Ireland so that same-sex couples are no longer treated as second-class citizens
|ff4=Bring forward and implementing a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland as outlined in the Good Friday Agreement
|ff5=Women in Northern Ireland should have access to abortions in Northern Ireland
|ff6=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
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|pagename=Wales
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Constitutional Issues - Wales
|1=Wales
|ff1=Include the Welsh Government’s 20-point plan for the future of the UK to better recognise the realities of a devolved UK
|ff2=Long-term reform of how the UK allocates public expenditure to ensure that it reflects the needs of different parts of our country
|ff3=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
|ff4=Create jobs in Wales through environmental energy schemes such as the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project
|ff5=Work with people of Ynys Môn (Anglesey)to maximise its potential for new nuclear energy, alongside investment in renewables
|ff6=Wales and Westminster will work together, using the Thomas Commission on Justice report to improve the justice system
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|pagename=Scotland
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Constitutional Issues - Scotland
|1=Scotland
|ff1=Give around 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise when we introduce a Real Living Wage of £10 an hour
|ff2=Provide Scotland with at least around £100 billion of additional resources over two terms
|ff3=£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
|ff4=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
|ff5=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
|ff6=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
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