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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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