Future of the UK

Labour

Main pledges

  • Oppose any second independence referendum as "unwanted and unnecessary"
  • Consult on extending local democracy regionally and nationally, and look at the option of a more federalised country
  • Make the second chamber at Westminster democratically elected, and end the hereditary principle
  • Extend Freedom of Information to private companies who have public contracts

Economy and taxes

Labour

Main pledges

  • Introduce £250bn stimulus package over 10 years
  • No increases in personal National Insurance or VAT
  • Reintroduce a 50p tax rate and raise income tax for those workers who earn more than £80,000
  • Raise corporation tax rates to 26% by 2020/21

Economy and taxes

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Millions more to spend on Scottish public services, creating jobs, boosting the economy and "lifting thousands of Scots out of poverty"
  • Introduce a real Living Wage of £10 an hour, "benefitting nearly half a million Scots"
  • Set up a Scottish Investment Bank with £20bn of lending power to deliver funds to local projects and Scotland's small businesses
  • Rule out rises in personal National Insurance Contributions and on VAT, but ask the richest to "pay their fair share"

Transport and environment

Labour

Main pledges

  • Bring rail companies back into public ownership, including ScotRail
  • Extend the HS2 high-speed rail line to Glasgow and Edinburgh
  • Ban onshore fracking and safeguard the North Sea oil and gas industry
  • Support Scotland's rural ferry services such as CalMac and keep them in public hands

Health and care

Labour

Main pledges

  • Commit to more than £30bn in extra funding for the NHS in England over the next five years
  • Reverse privatisation and return health services into public control
  • Guarantee access to NHS treatment within 18 weeks and A&E within four hours
  • Lay the foundations of a National Care service and put an extra £8bn into social care over the next five years

Housing

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Provide resources to the Scottish government to invest in Scotland's housing stock
  • Guarantee funding for the Help to Buy scheme until 2027
  • Consult on introducing a private rent sector charter to drive up standards
  • Launch a national plan to end rough sleeping within the next parliament, and safeguard hostels and other supported housing

Welfare and pensions

Labour

Main pledges

  • Keep the pension triple lock and benefits for pensioners, such as the winter fuel allowance and free bus passes
  • Review the benefit cap, universal credit and reinstate housing benefit for under 21s
  • Increase employment and support allowance by £30 per week
  • Increase carer's allowance by £11 a week

Key priorities

Labour

Main pledges

  • Bring an end to austerity and invest heavily in public services
  • Negotiate a Brexit deal that "puts the economy and living standards first"
  • Nationalise a number of utilities including rail, post, water and the National Grid
  • Increase taxation on business and the highest paid
  • Invest in the British economy through a £250bn stimulus package
  • Abolish tuition fees for university students in England

Education and family

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • More money "to transform" Scotland's education system and ensure all young people can "reach their full potential"
  • Fund a breakfast club in every primary school in Scotland
  • Introduce an improved version of the Chartered Teacher scheme ensuring teachers progress careers while staying in the classroom
  • Reform senior phase of secondary schooling and introduce a Scottish Graduation Certificate

Welfare and pensions

Labour

Main pledges

  • Scrap the current "punitive" benefit sanctions system and end the bedroom tax across the UK
  • End reassessments for people with severe long-term conditions
  • Secure free bus passes in Scotland for those aged 60 and above
  • Bring back housing benefit for under-21s

Housing

Labour

Main pledges

  • Introduce controls on rent rises
  • Suspend the right to buy policy
  • Build at least 100,000 council and housing association homes a year
  • Make available 4,000 additional homes for rough sleepers

Education and family

Labour

Main pledges

  • Abolish university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants
  • 30 hours of free childcare for two-year-olds in England
  • End the public sector pay cap for teachers
  • Restrict primary class sizes to 30 and introduce free school meals for primary school children

Economy and taxes

Labour

Main pledges

  • Introduce a £250bn stimulus package over 10 years
  • No increases in personal National Insurance or VAT
  • Reintroduce a 50p tax rate and raise income tax for those who earn over £80,000
  • Raise corporation tax rates to 26% by 2020/21

Brexit

Labour

Main pledges

  • Scrap the Brexit white paper and replace it with a fresh set of negotiating priorities with an "emphasis on the single market and customs union"
  • Immediately guarantee rights of EU citizens living in Britain
  • Replace the "Great Repeal Bill" with an EU rights and protections bill that will ensure no change to workers' rights or environmental protections
  • Reject "no deal" with the European Union as a viable option

Immigration

Labour

Main pledges

  • Develop and implement "fair" immigration rules
  • Need for new migration management systems which work with Holyrood to identify labour and skill shortages
  • Fulfil spirit of international law and "our moral obligations" by taking "our fair share" of refugees
  • Protection for people already working in the UK - whatever their ethnicity

Transport and environment

Labour

Main pledges

  • Renationalise Britain’s railways as franchises expire
  • Let local councils take over bus services if they wish to
  • New clean air act to legislate against diesel fumes
  • Ban fracking

Immigration

Labour

Main pledges

  • Freedom of movement will end when Britain leaves the European Union
  • Reinstate the Migrant Impact fund in areas where immigration has placed a strain on public services
  • Take students out of immigration numbers
  • Recruit 500 more border guards

Foreign and defence

Labour

Main pledges

  • Order a strategic defence and security review
  • Commit to spending 2% of GDP on defence
  • Continue to spend 0.7% on international aid
  • Roll out a "91Èȱ¬s for Heroes" programme that will insulate the homes of veterans for free

Health and care

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Increase tax on private medical insurance and halve fees to management consultants
  • Give more money than any other party to Scotland's NHS
  • Increase medical student places; provide more GP training places and end 1% pay cap for NHS staff
  • Back the Frank's Law campaign to ensure under 65s with dementia receive free care

Housing

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Deliver 20,000 more affordable homes by 2021
  • Reverse the decision to abolish housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

Key priorities

Labour

Main pledges

  • Introduce a living wage of £10 an hour and invest in infrastructure, skills and new technology
  • Create 853 new police officers and stronger rights for crime victims
  • Keep giving the NHS and social care the money they need and continue work to join up services from hospital to home
  • Protect free school breakfasts and invest £100m to further improve school standards
  • Deliver 20,000 more affordable homes by 2021

Brexit

Labour

Main pledges

  • A jobs-first Brexit is needed, allowing an "upgrade to our economy for the 21st century"
  • Negotiations should prioritise maintaining access to internal energy market; retaining benefits of single market and customs union
  • EU-derived laws, such as workplace and consumer rights and environmental protections, are fully protected "without qualifications"
  • Brexit deal should deliver for all regions and nations - including Scotland

Future of the UK

Labour

Main pledges

  • Establish a constitutional convention to examine and advise on reforming Britain's constitution
  • Reduce the voting age to 16
  • Oppose an independence referendum in Scotland
  • Create a role of Minister of State for England

Key priorities

Labour

Main pledges

  • Oppose an unwanted and unnecessary second independence referendum
  • Establish a People’s Constitutional Convention that will consider the option of a more federal UK
  • Abolish the so-called "rape clause" in the new Child Tax Credit rules
  • Complete the HS2 high-speed rail line from London through Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester and then into Scotland
  • Establish a Scottish Investment Bank, with £20bn of funds available to local projects and Scotland’s small businesses
  • Safeguard the future of the vital North Sea oil industry

Brexit

Labour

Main pledges

  • Scrap the Brexit white paper and replace it with a fresh set of negotiating priorities with an "emphasis on the single market and customs union"
  • Ensure the level of funding Wales currently receives from the EU continues beyond Brexit
  • Immediately guarantee rights of EU citizens living in Britain
  • Replace the "Great Repeal Bill" with an EU rights and protections bill that will ensure no change to workers' rights or environmental protections
  • Reject "no deal" with the European Union as a viable option

Foreign and defence

Labour

Main pledges

  • Pause military base closures in Scotland until there has been a full UK government review into its economic impact
  • Continue to support renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent in line with UK Labour
  • Ensure shipbuilding in Rosyth and Clyde is maintained and protected
  • Focus on diplomacy and peaceful solutions to global conflicts

Education and family

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Protect free school breakfasts
  • Invest £100m to further improve school standards in Wales

Health and care

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Keep giving the NHS and social care the money they need and continue work to join up services from hospital to home

Transport and environment

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Abolish the Severn Bridge tolls
  • Deliver tidal lagoons, rail electrification and the Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Plant