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100 Labour Party Policies that Ed Milibands Labour says it would implement if it was elected to government
Tax Policies
1. Labour will introduce a Mansion Tax on properties worth more than 2 million (evidence) 2. Labour has said it will repeat Alastair Darlings Bankers Bonus Tax that raised more than 3bn in 2009-10 (evidence, evidence & evidence) 3. Labour will scrap the 150 million tax cut for Hedge Funds announced by George Osborne in March 2013 (evidence) 4. Labour will also increase the Bank Levy by 800m a year (evidence) 5. Labour will scrap the Profit Tax Cut (Corporation Tax) that George Osborne has already announced for 2015-6 (evidence) 6. Labour will introduce a cut in Business Tax worth 450 to 1.5 million smaller businesses in 2015 & will freeze Business Tax in 2016 (evidence & evidence) 7. Labour will introduce an Income Tax cut for 25 million workers by halving the lowest rate of Income Tax to just 10% (evidence) 8. Labour would bring back the 50p rate for High Earners (evidence) 9. Those earning 150,000+ a year currently get 45% Tax Relief on their Pensions. Labour would cut this to about 30% (evidence)

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10. Labour supports a Financial Transaction Tax but only if it can be agreed multilaterally and include the USA (evidence & evidence)

Spending
11. Labour promises there will be no more borrowing to pay for day to day spending & this will be enshrined in tough new fiscal rules (evidence) 12. New Fiscal Rules will require the budget to be balanced, and require National Debt, not just the deficit, to be reduced through the elimination of the Structural Deficit (evidence) 13. Labour will use 1billion extra revenue from the Mobile Phone license fee to recapitalise a British Investment Bank to encourage regional lending (evidence) 14. Labour will establish an Independent Infrastructure Commission to enable forward planning on investment projects (evidence) 15. Labour will establish a British Investment Bank (evidence, evidence, evidence & evidence)

Clampdown on Tax Evasion/Avoidance

16. Labour will scrap George Osbornes Shares for Rights scheme that has opened up a tax loophole of 1billion (evidence) 17. Labour will close Tax Loopholes in the Construction Industry that currently cost taxpayers 500million a year (evidence) 18. Labour will extend Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes to include global transactions (evidence & evidence) 19. Labour will launch a Convention on Tax Havens at the G8 to open up tax havens (evidence) 20. Labour supports a form of Country by Country reporting, provided it is agreed internationally (evidence)

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Health & NHS Policy

21. Labour will repeal the Tory NHS Act of 2012 that accelerated NHS privatisation & subjected the NHS to EU Competition Laws (evidence) 22. Labour will introduce a law making Private Health, and other firms, subject to the Freedom of Information Act (evidence) 23. Labour will give more powers to Local Councils through Health & Well Being Boards to oversee procurement of NHS services at a local level. This would give elected councillors a say on NHS Commissioning (evidence & evidence) 24. Labour will create a unified National Health & Social Care Service effectively integrating health & social care and put patient dignity at the centre of everything it does (evidence & evidence) 25. Each Social Care patients will be guaranteed 1 named contact who will coordinate all their at-home care needs and accompanies a patient onto a ward if needed (evidence)

Wages
26. Labour would only allow firms paying a Living Wage to bid for government contracts, a policy (evidence) 27. Labour will offer tax breaks to firms who pay the Living Wage (evidence) 28. Labour will introduce a 50,000 fine to firms who pay below the National Minimum Wage (evidence) 29. The Minimum Wage has suffered a real terms cut of 5% under the Tories but Labour will make up the difference to its value is restored (evidence)

Jobs
30. Labour will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee, giving long term unemployed persons a 6 month paid job with view to extending it (evidence)

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31. Labour will outlaw the use of Zero Hours Contracts where they are found to be exploitative (evidence & evidence) 32. Labour will launch a full public inquiry into Blacklisting (evidence)

Education
33. As a minimum, Labour will cut Tuition Fees to 6,000 which by 2015 will amount to at least a 33% cut in tuition fees (evidence & evidence) but it is important to note that Labour has not yet given up on the idea of a Graduate Tax (evidence) 34. Labour will halt Michael Goves Free School Expansion Programme. Not a single new Free School will be announced under a Labour government (evidence ) 35. Labour will abolish the Tory ban on Local Education Authorities opening State Schools once more (evidence) 36. Labour support the establishment of Parent-Led Academies where there is a shortage of school places (evidence) 37. Labour will require all teachers to pass an MOT style accreditation every 7-9 years passing them Fit to Teach (evidence)

Childcare
38. Labour will give 25 Hours of Free Childcare, per week, to parents with children aged 3 & 4 (evidence) 39. Labour will guarantee wraparound care from 8am-6am is available for every child in England (evidence)

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Vocational Education: The forgotten 50%

40. Labour will require the HS2 project to create 33,000 apprenticeships for young people at no extra cost to the taxpayer (evidence) 41. Labour will abolish basic level I and level II apprenticeships and abolish short term apprenticeships so that all apprenticeships are guaranteed for at least 2 years at level 3 (evidence) 42. Labour will introduce a new Technical Baccalaureate, a Gold Standard vocational qualification for those wishing to go into skilled employment instead of university (evidence) 43. Labour will establish a new type of Technical School for Vocational Qualifications (evidence)

Energy
44. Labour will Freeze Gas & Electricity Prices until 2017 (evidence) 45. Labour will cut wholesale energy prices by forcing companies to pool their power, making it available to any retailer (evidence & evidence) 46. Labour will break up the big 6 Energy Companies and separate the power stations from the retailers (evidence & evidence) 47. Labour will axe Ofgem & replace it with a tougher regulatory body with more powers to prevent Energy Price Rises (evidence) 48. Labour will legislate to ensure Energy Firms place the elderly automatically on the cheapest tariff (evidence) 49. Labour will compel Water Companies to place the poorest households on a Social Tariff that makes it easier for them to pay their Water Bills (evidence)

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Housing
50. Labour will build 200,000 homes, with a special focus on Social Rentals, a year by 2020 (evidence) 51. Labour will invite local authorities to come forward with proposals to build New Towns and garden cities and will give them the financial backing they need to make it a reality (evidence) 52. Labour would force councils to guarantee small-medium house builders access to public land in order to boost the number of custom built housing projects (evidence) 53. Labour will expend on the Right To Grow Principle, giving towns better measures to stop land hoarders from banking land and blocking town expansion under a new Use it or Lose it policy (evidence & evidence, evidence) 54. Labour will regulate Letting Agents claiming down on rogue practices than charge up front administration fees than are not transparently advertised (evidence) 55. Labour will set up a new regulator to make sure that Rogue Landlords obey a code of practice or face referral to the OFT (evidence) 56. Labour will provide Financial Guarantees to give house builders wishing to build new towns access to cheap finance (evidence , evidence & evidence)

Railways
57. Labour would cap Rail Fares by preventing Rail Fares rising more than 1% above inflation (evidence & evidence) 58. Labour will abolish Super Peak Rail Fares meaning that your train ticket is valid on every train (evidence) 59. Labour will guarantee that train tickets booked way in advance can be used on the next train if possible (evidence) 60. A legal right to be allowed to buy the cheapest ticket regardless of how or where you buy it (evidence)

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61. Labours full rail policy has yet to be decided but, for now, Labour supports allowing a State Owned Rail Firm to bid to run rail franchises (not for profit) (evidence) 62. Free Wifi on all trains regardless of the class of ticket purchased (evidence)

Royal Mail
63. Labour will regulate the price of stamps to make sure costs do not rise unfairly (evidence) 64. Labour will force the Royal Mail to guarantee the same cost of delivery regardless of where in the UK a letter is being delivered (evidence) 65. Labour will legislate to ensure that the Royal Mail continues to use the Post Office network beyond 2022 (evidence)

Localism
66. Labour will introduce a new law giving Local Councils the power to regulate Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (evidence) 67. Labour will introduce new regulations giving powers to Local Councils to block Pay Day lenders opening on high streets (evidence)

Banking
68. Labour would set up a Financial Crime Unit, with increased staffing, in the Serious Fraud Office to enable the SFO to pursue bankers who break the law (evidence) 69. Labour will guarantee immunity for whistle-blowers at banks (evidence) 70. Labour will break up the banks, separating retail banking from investment banking (evidence)

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71. Labour would force banks to sell hundreds of branches to create at least 2 new competitors (evidence & evidence)

Ending Crony Capitalism

72. Labour will remove the requirement for Corporations to produce quarterly reports, thus ending an incentive for short termism and excessive risk taking (evidence) 73. Labour will prevent new shareholders voting on take voters to prevent firms suffering aggressive takeovers from hedge funds and speculators (evidence) 74. Labour would implement the High Pay Commissions proposals including placing at least 1 worker on the board of corporations (evidence) 75. Labour will double the tax duty on Pay Day Lenders and will use the additional 13,000,000 that raises to help foster more Credit Unions (evidence) 76. Labour will impose a cap on the cost of credit, setting a limit at which Pay Day Lenders can charge borrowers (evidence) 77. Labour will ban Pay Day lenders from advertising on Childrens Television (evidence)

Environment
78. Labour will commit the UK to the 2030 Energy Decarbonisation Target (evidence) 79. Labour will ban food from landfill to cut down on food wastage (evidence) 80. Labour will regulate food labelling to simplify pricing so that Supermarkets cannot con customers (evidence) 81. Labour will introduce Marine Conservation Zones to protect fish stocks and improve bio-diversity & will complete the Coastal Path enabling everyone to have access to the coast (evidence)

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82. Labour will give the Green Investment Bank the borrowing powers it needs to unlock billions of investment (Labour will compel Water Companies to place the poorest households on a Social Tariff that makes it easier for them to pay their Water Bills (evidence) 83. Labour will replace The Green Deal with a new Pay as You Save Scheme (evidence)

Welfare Policies
84. Labour will repeal David Camerons Bedroom Tax that penalised 660,000 households, mostly disabled, for the perceived under-occupation of a bedroom (evidence) 85. Labour will introduce a new offence to punish Disability Hate Crime (evidence) 86. Labour will sack ATOS from carrying out Work Capability Tests (evidence) 87. Labour will cap structural Welfare Spending (evidence) 88. Labour will replace the Tory Benefit Cap with a Regional Benefit Cap that takes account of the excessive cost of rental housing in London (evidence, evidence & evidence) 89. Labour will axe Winter Fuel Payments for the 600k richest pensioners in the UK in order to save 100m (evidence) 90. Labour will set up a Universal Credit Rescue Committee to make sure benefit payments are streamlined and that it pays to work (evidence & evidence)

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Immigration
91. Labours new Immigration Bill would compel Multi-Nationals to create 1 Apprenticeship place each time a skilled worker was hired from outside the EU (evidence & evidence) 92. Labours new Immigration Bill would ban Recruitment Consultancy firms from only hiring abroad & ban firms from paying temporary workers less than permanent staff (evidence & evidence) 93. Mandatory Registration for Commercial Landlords to prevent them subletting smaller properties to large groups of immigrants (evidence) 94. Labour will clampdown on Short Term Student Visas, freeing up regulation of Long Term Student visas so that University recruitment of foreign students runs more smoothly (evidence)

Equalities & Justice

95. Labour will give 16-17 year olds the right to participate in elections (evidence) 96. Labour will ban Police using Community Resolutions instead of court proceedings to settle incidents of domestic abuse or sexual violence (evidence) 97. Labour will introduce a Womens Justice Board that will seek to find ways of using restorative justice to lower reoffending and the rates of women jailed (evidence) 98. Labour will scrap Police Commissioners (evidence) 99. Labour will introduce a Forces & Veterans Bill of Rights to build upon the Military Covenant (evidence) 100. Labour will introduce workplace rights for army volunteers & personalised

budgets for veterans with severe injuries (evidence)

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