LABOUR’S 201 POLICIES TO TRANSFORM LIFE FOR THE MANY

Labour’s conference in September 2019 was the most dramatic in generations for the policies it agreed to implement in government. The result – together with those Labour had already announced – is a astonishing list of over two hundred policies to transform life for vast majority of the UK’s people.

Some major and some less extensive, they will restore this country to a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after decades of stripping and selling off by the Conservatives:

• new National Care Service
• new National Education Service abolish Universal Credit
• halt NHS privatisation 
• replace DWP with new Department for Social Security
• scrap hospital parking charges
• abolish Zero Hours Contracts 
• skills-based immigration system 
• end academies & free schools 
• 1/3 of board seats for workers 
• lift bans on onshore wind farms 
• overhaul gambling regulation 
• 10 policies to fix the BBC
• safe standing allowed at stadia 
• additional health visit for babies 
• nationalise the National Grid 
• restore nurses’ bursary 
• extend £10/hr MW to 16yr olds+ 
• extend FOI Act to private sector 
• halt Saudi Arabia arms exports 
• recognise State of Palestine 
• new Rogue Landlord Register 
• raise Corporation Tax to 26% 
• extend free-to-air sport events 
• overseas Loan Transparency Act 
• move part of Treasury north 
• 5 pledges for the Armed Forces 
• register of Beneficial Ownership 
• interest free Homeowner Loans
• £5bn Robin Hood Tax
• extend abortion rights to NI 
• new Green Tech Deal for North 
• abolish in-work poverty
• leaseholder-rights revolution
• mandatory alcohol labelling
• declare climate emergency
• bring rail into public ownership
• 500,000 new council homes
• solar panels for 1.7m homes
• elected House of Lords
• 3,000 more prison officers
• redistribute disused retail outlets
• menopause-friendly policies
• commission on ftar-right Threat
• integrate private schools
• Sure Start Plus.
• free nursery for 2-4 year olds
• scrap Ofsted
• cap school uniform costs
• low emission Ambulances
• 1m NHS trees planted
• 1,500 more trainee GP places
• scrap prescription charges
• end detaining & torturing suspects
• reverse legal aid cuts
• £20m People’s Law Centres fund
• 200 new Community Lawyers
• new access to justice rights
• 5,000 more prison officers
• end short prison sentences
• £20m for women’s centres
• public accountability law
• renationalise Scottish Rail
• £30 per week for ESA recipients
• end Sure Start Closures
• zero emissions by 2050
• 400,000 Green Tech Jobs
• earn more on Social Care
• home help for 160,000 more
• £1bn for new Bus Routes
• right to an Indefinite Tenancy
• free bus travel for under 255
• not for profit buses in England
• £250m children’s health fund
• £6bn p.a. extra for the NHS
• scrap Work Capability test
• 1 year maternity leave
• 3,000 more firefighters
• all class sizes under 30
• £3bn Mersey Tidal Project
• £1bn Cultural Capital Fund
• a Workers’ Protection Agency
• private rent cap
• implement Leveson 2
• scrap SATs
• Clean Air Act
• Fair Food Act
• restore EMA
• end Right to Buy
• War Powers Act
• ban fracking
• scrap tuition Fees
• £500bn investment
• end badger cull
• Second Home Tax
• restore Legal Aid
• £1bn oligarch Levy
• Gender Pay Gap Act
• repeal Lobbying Act
• scrap Bedroom Tax
• reverse PIP cuts
• free school Meals
• transgender rights
• new Well-being Act
• ban on new Grammars
• repeal Tory NHS Act
• reform outsourcing
• repeal Vagrancy Act
• £3bn pa for Education
• £500 p.a. for carers
• Orgreave Inquiry
• Shrewsbury Inquiry
• blacklisting Inquiry
• Hillsborough Inquiry
• renationalise Rail
• renationalise Water
• renationalise Energy
• nationalise Probation
• a Co-Op University
• votes for 16 year olds
• equal Marriage in NI
• 4 day week in 10 years 
• £6bn free personal social care 
• Second EU Referendum
• carbon neutral by 2030
• homeless Bill of Rights
• closing all detention centres
• 67,000 wind shore jobs
• 400,000 Green Tech Jobs
• 10% transfer of shares to workers
• restore Trade Union rights
• collective bargaining powers
• 27m new GP appointments
• race & Faith Manifesto
• ban animal trophy imports
• new legal right to food
• double no. of apprenticeships
• £8bn for new schools
• renationalise Royal Mail
• 4 new public holidays
• Crossrail for the North
• new National Investment Bank
• 2% of GDP for Defence Spending
• NHS safe staffing Law
• 20-point workers’ rights deal
• childhood obesity strategy
• switch business tax to CPI
• end Post Office closures
• abolish food poverty in 3 years
• £6m people’s access to food fund 
• new state-owned Pharma firm
• Ministry for Employment Rights
• scrap UK Office Conversion Clause
• reverse £1bn Inheritance Tax Cut
• break up Big 4 Accountancy Firms
• create a Social Justice Commission
• scrap Non-Dom Status
• £3.6bn vehicle-charging network
• build 1 million new homes in 5yrs
• ban unpaid internships
• 5% of Premier League cash for grassroots
• £20bn investment bank for Scotland
• like for like replacement of Trident
• establish a new Post Office Bank
• 50p tax for those on £123,000+
• ‘fat-cat levy’ on bosses making £350k
• maintenance grants for students
• 45p rate for earners (£80k – £123k)
• new violence against women commission
• new Brighton mainline for SW England
• reverse £735m Capital Gains Tax Cut
• 20% tax on Private Health Insurance
• create Minister for Mental Health
• 17 point plan to beat Tax Avoidance
• 5 year tax freeze on incomes below £80k
• £100m Cold weather plan for rough sleepers
• ‘Build it in Britain’ guarantee e.g. naval ships
• implement Parker Review for BAME equality
• paid leave for domestic abuse victims
• 5 point plan for High Street e.g. free Wi-Fi
• 8,000 new homes for rough sleepers
• equal rights for gig-economy workers
• free childcare for low income families
• new Scottish Devolution Bill on employment law
• Vehicle Scrappage Scheme to remove 400,000 cars
• 2.5m interest free loans to buy new electric cars
• government car fleet will be 100% electric
• 3 new battery Gigafactories (Stoke, Croydon & Wales)
• £300m Community owned Car Clubs 
• 50% cut in food bank usage in first year
• compulsory licensing to cut cost of medicines
• the Caerphilly Strategy for Mental Health (£2bn)
• ban donations from non-UK taxpayers
• Big Pharma research-funding reform 
• freedom of movement Conference motion
• £50,000 compensation to test veterans
• compulsory licensing for Big Pharma medicines
• 37 state-owned off-shore wind farms
• electricity profits into Norway-style wealth fund
• end opt-out of Working Time Directive.

Thanks to https://skwawkbox.org/2019/09/28/labours-201-policies-to-make-a-uk-to-be-proud-of/?fbclid=IwAR2amFLyyBQq1rCuMwWorSWV7AtDWSgF1H2EGgbgWW4tmqFksBYNQaTTlH0 for this.

For more information on Labour 2019/20 policies these videos by skwawkbox are worth viewing

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/10/03/three-new-grassroots-videos-showcase-labours-incredible-policy-platform/

Jackie Owen

Secretary

Clwyd South CLP